I'd love to be able to export characters I've made in D&D Beyond in some kind of computer-readable format - like a JSON export or something. I want to be able to import them into a 3rd party tool like an encounter tracker, without having to manually retype everything. Is that on your radar at all? Ideally it would be accessible via an API, but I'd even take just manual click and export-as-JSON (or whatever, don't care about the export format as long as it's standardized)
BadEye has answered a question about this previously on & Beyond, the monthly dev Q&A stream - there is an ambition to add a proper API to the site for such things later, but that only comes after most of the functionality has been added and matured, so there aren't constant changes to an API.
Wow, thanks! I don't mind updating my code to take into consideration new json format. Thanks so much! That's a lot better than trying to parse the PDF (which is where I was going next ;)
OMG, I just tried the /json and it's like the heavens opening up with a choir of angels. :)
I'd love to be able to export characters I've made in D&D Beyond in some kind of computer-readable format - like a JSON export or something. I want to be able to import them into a 3rd party tool like an encounter tracker, without having to manually retype everything. Is that on your radar at all? Ideally it would be accessible via an API, but I'd even take just manual click and export-as-JSON (or whatever, don't care about the export format as long as it's standardized)
Thanks!
BadEye has answered a question about this previously on & Beyond, the monthly dev Q&A stream - there is an ambition to add a proper API to the site for such things later, but that only comes after most of the functionality has been added and matured, so there aren't constant changes to an API.
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I don't know how long the url will work, but you can just tag /json to the end of the url while viewing your character to get JSON data for it.
Example: dndbeyond.com/profile/[PROFILENAME]/characters/[CHARACTERID]/json
I use this to import characters into Roll20 using a Roll20 API
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Yeah, I figured it would. When it does, I'll look into updating the Roll20 import script.
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Wow, thanks! I don't mind updating my code to take into consideration new json format. Thanks so much! That's a lot better than trying to parse the PDF (which is where I was going next ;)
OMG, I just tried the /json and it's like the heavens opening up with a choir of angels. :)
The new script is almost ready.
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What ever happened to this? The JSON file is still there, but it won't export properly. Particularly to roll 20.
Hey there - this thread hasn't be touched for quite a while. We'd rather not have zombies crawling out of the ground.
There is a thread for the API script on the Roll20 forums. Locking this thread
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