XFRM API keys for this site?

[DragonByte Tech]

Would it be possible to request an API key for the XFRM, so that we can automate releasing updates to our existing resources (and possibly also new resources themselves)?

Those of us who host our downloads on our own sites could benefit from being able to automate posting new updates, and what better way to show off the capabilities of the REST API?

Since there's no userland API key management at the time of writing, I know keys would need to be exchanged via conversations, but rather than cold-call the staff I thought I'd post in public in case other developers wanted to chime in with their interest as well

 

[TickTackk]

Bump!

 

[DragonByte Tech]

Cheeky bump again to see if this is something that could be handled

 

[DragonByte Tech]

Gonna try one more cheeky bump as this has dropped onto the second page

 

[Robust]

This would make releasing updates less painful. Current workflow is opening a new incognito tab, logging in to the XF account, going to each add-on to release a new update, converting markdown to BBCode, a bunch of c+p and then releasing.

 

[DragonByte Tech]

@Chris D sorry for the ping, it would be grand if you would consider making this possible for developers to manually request.

I felt inspired to dig up this thread again after another batch of releases with copy/pasted release notes

 

[Chris D]

No plans at this time.

 

[DragonByte Tech]

No plans at this time.

That's disappointing to hear.

Can I ask why? It seems like there's definitely interest from the developers, and I feel like it would be a huge boon, plus the fact that it would help to showcase the power of the API.

I wouldn't think the lack of rate limiting would be a blocking issue to allowing this, since it would be fairly obvious which developer was misusing the API since their resources would be flooded with posts

 

[Chris D]

We just don't have any plans to issue API keys. That's it.