Extracting web users project list and api key programmatically

[aga...@mercycorps.org]

Hey all, 

I am a developer from Mercy Corps, who is working on building an API integration of Commcare into our monitoring and evaluation tracking & analysis tool. I talked to Ryan Hartford from your team and he said I should post here regarding suggested features that we would like to see:

1.) My Projects List: We would like the ability to get the list provided under this tab so that we can see a list of a web user's different CommCare projects. At the moment, we have our system set up where our users have to insert the name of the project they want to extract form reports from manually. It is set up this way because commcare list forms api requires the project name (aka domain). Many of our users are not super computer literate so the less steps they have to do the better. Additionally, in certain cases the domain name is not the same as the project name. I assume this occurs when there are duplicate project names in your system. For example, when I was testing I set up a project with the name test, but it had the domain name test-20170447. 

2.) Programmatic Access to API Key: The other request we have is the ability to retrieve the commcare API key programmatically so that users no longer have to retrieve their api key manually or only be temporarily logged in with their password. Our ideal setup would be one where users can login to our system, have the ability to import their form data to our site, and not have to login again until they have logged out or their login session has expired. 

Let me know if you have any questions. We appreciate being able to provide feedback. Could you let us know whether if you are willing to add to your backlog? That feedback would help us communicate expectations back to our users here at Mercy Corps.

[Simon Kelly]

Hi

I think you asked this question on this list before: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/commcare-developers/um4KdqwMYm4/discussion

We also do not have an API for retrieving API Keys.

Unfortunately we don't have any plans to add either of these items.

Simon Kelly

Director of Server Engineer | Dimagi

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