Will you please add an API option for getting character information (and monsters from purchased books).
I'm fairly new to the D&D Beyond site, and really wanna utilize it as much as possible for my campaign.
But since I can't pull character sheets out of the system into whatever note system or other system I want to use. I kinda find this less useful.
I don't care if you add an extra payment option called grandmaster (for 2-3 dollars more than master) to have access to the API. I would pay for that! I use so other systems for encounters and maps (cudos for finally creating your own systems) and have all my notes in Obsidian.md.
My players love using the charactersheet that D&D Beyond offers. That is just a great tool - But above and beyond would be to be able to pull the characters and monsters into my own systems.
I don't expect this to make much of a difference in your choice of API access, but I just really need to mention it. It would be a great service. Avrae has an API access, how about sharing it?
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Hard agree. Just charge us for the privilege of using it. Hampering creativity and freedom of information like this is just further damaging the brand's reputation. We WANT to give you money for this service. Pls Hasbro...
Honestly even if they made it like full on with agreements and everything else ndas I don't care what I got to sign and what I got to pay just take my money lol . Or how about this? Fix a lot of the stuff that's not functioning correctly in the Homebrew or add our own ability to put prices on things. Build out stores So that we can offer them two players with prices per items. I don't know any of these things so that we wouldn't have to resort to developing our own systems and apps. Honestly I would offer up free development work from my company just to get this done LOL . Or the easiest route for you guys as suggested. Give us a paid for API please.
I'd be happy to pay for an API. My expectation would be:
Free for read-only API usage.
Paid for edit API usage.
A tiered license key.
A challenge is providing a spec for characters, and not to mention campaigns, homebrew, etc. I expect a user-usable API is not on the roadmap. It's hard enough to have solid web pages and mobile app screens. Perhaps WotC has a vision for being a central API for themselves, 3rd-parties, and enterprising users, but it seems unlikely at this point although it would tie in non-WotC products. I'm sure this idea gives corporate and legal the heebie-jeebies regardless of potential revenue from selling tiered API license keys.
My immediate use case is updating many dozens of homebrew creations as I move to 2024 from 2014. I'm doing it the old-fashioned way: managed text files for copy/paste to the DnDB web UI.
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Hi
Will you please add an API option for getting character information (and monsters from purchased books).
I'm fairly new to the D&D Beyond site, and really wanna utilize it as much as possible for my campaign.
But since I can't pull character sheets out of the system into whatever note system or other system I want to use. I kinda find this less useful.
I don't care if you add an extra payment option called grandmaster (for 2-3 dollars more than master) to have access to the API. I would pay for that!
I use so other systems for encounters and maps (cudos for finally creating your own systems) and have all my notes in Obsidian.md.
My players love using the charactersheet that D&D Beyond offers. That is just a great tool - But above and beyond would be to be able to pull the characters and monsters into my own systems.
I don't expect this to make much of a difference in your choice of API access, but I just really need to mention it. It would be a great service. Avrae has an API access, how about sharing it?
Hard agree. Just charge us for the privilege of using it. Hampering creativity and freedom of information like this is just further damaging the brand's reputation. We WANT to give you money for this service. Pls Hasbro...
https://character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v5/character/48690485
I hope they add a broader, more defined tool as a central broker for D&D content and character profiles for the internet to use.
Honestly even if they made it like full on with agreements and everything else ndas I don't care what I got to sign and what I got to pay just take my money lol . Or how about this? Fix a lot of the stuff that's not functioning correctly in the Homebrew or add our own ability to put prices on things. Build out stores So that we can offer them two players with prices per items. I don't know any of these things so that we wouldn't have to resort to developing our own systems and apps. Honestly I would offer up free development work from my company just to get this done LOL . Or the easiest route for you guys as suggested. Give us a paid for API please.
I disagree on charging more for API access, Add it as a feature available to Master tier members sure but not additional tier.
WOTC need to do more than nickel and dime players and DM's to keep them on their platform.
I'd be happy to pay for an API. My expectation would be:
A challenge is providing a spec for characters, and not to mention campaigns, homebrew, etc. I expect a user-usable API is not on the roadmap. It's hard enough to have solid web pages and mobile app screens. Perhaps WotC has a vision for being a central API for themselves, 3rd-parties, and enterprising users, but it seems unlikely at this point although it would tie in non-WotC products. I'm sure this idea gives corporate and legal the heebie-jeebies regardless of potential revenue from selling tiered API license keys.
My immediate use case is updating many dozens of homebrew creations as I move to 2024 from 2014. I'm doing it the old-fashioned way: managed text files for copy/paste to the DnDB web UI.