API enhancements - what would you like to see ?

[Simon]

Hi All,

We might finally have a bit of time to do some more work on the public
API.

What new stuff would you like to see?

We're thinking about authentication issues, and once we have something
secure enough, we could make portfolio information available to the
suitably authenticated trader (for example)

Over time we'll be adding more requestable stats, perhaps including
various forms of aggregated data.

In the meantime however, our first job is giving the api engine a bit
of an overhaul, and this will improve performance for you, and help us
to provide more functionality with less effort.

cheers
Simon

[Richard Clark]

OAuth!

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[Tim McNamara]

On Thursday, March 4, 2010 10:29:20 PM UTC+13, Simon wrote:

Hi All,

We might finally have a bit of time to do some more work on the public
API.

What new stuff would you like to see?

Some aggregate statistics would be nice. Maybe Gaussian weighted moving averages, exponential smoothing/Holt-Winters method.

Is it possible to see the current market depth? E.g. how many buyers and sellers currently have bids.

Tim

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[3Peter]

I would really like to see the ability to pull down ROI over time for
a given UID

I've been using the method mentioned in
https://www.ipredict.co.nz/app.php?do=forum&page=read.php%253F3%252C9160
for some time so there shouldn't be any new privacy concerns.

It would be great to have the actual data behind the graph so it would
be possible to rebalance the ROI for people who started before or
after others, and allow for better presentation of the data.

Peter

[Simon Lewis]

OK - I'll add that to our list of requests/suggestions.
- Simon