[Developers/Posters] Would you use a BPIP API?

[Vod]

A lot of bots are starting to hit my servers to leech information that I compiled by leeching from bitcointalk. 

ibminer designs and builds those server HTML and CSS pages with love; do not waste their beauty on a bot. 

If BPIP were to build a simple to use API and BBCode Generator for the real time information/rankings the site provides, would you use it in your development/posts?   We'll take care of the parsing, and you can use the information to impress the community.

I will be coding in a free limit obviously, but right now you'd need to use at least 10x more resources than you are right now before I notice it.

[hatshepsut93]

Yeah, first thing I would make is a userscript that displays earned merit. I'm going to do it soon with my own merit API, but it won't have near-realtime updates like your site does. I could also render some additional stats next to people's profiles, especially when you visit someone's profile/merit history on this forum.

Btw, if your backend is in Node, I can help you with development of your API.

[Initscri]

Unless you build an API most are going to try and scrape the site. A simple JSON API w/ limits (such as 1000 request per day max, for free) would suffice.

If you need any help, feel free to reach out!

[dkbit98]

@Vod
Search is not working atm

EDIT:
Fixed

[Vod]

@Vod
Search is not working atm

Thanks for letting me know!  Fixed.

Just activated the DT2 strength and reports.  Thought I got all the pages but missed that one.