Back before the WoC take over I wrote a little home brew program to dump the dice log to a receipt printer. It was just for my own gratification and never distributed. It was a great hit at our last campaign because we could go to the "tape" for our roll history.
Now that WoC has taken control of D&D Beyond is there an official API we can use for just read only access?
Back before the WoC take over I wrote a little home brew program to dump the dice log to a receipt printer. It was just for my own gratification and never distributed. It was a great hit at our last campaign because we could go to the "tape" for our roll history.
Now that WoC has taken control of D&D Beyond is there an official API we can use for just read only access?
I'm not sure entirely what you're asking.
Any API's that are read only access (which to my knowledge would just be the SRD and things of that nature if I'm understanding correctly) were always free and at this point have been cemented due to the mis handling of the OGL.
However, the only thing that has ever been free on DnD Beyond was using the character creator... and you could only use that with stuff you own (and there isn't a lot given for free)... and none of that was changed by DnD Beyond being bought out.
If you are on the website it will be a little chat box button near the top right of your screen, next to the name of the campaign. If you are on the app it will be a similar button to the right of the current page (i.e. to the right of “spells”, or “abilities, saves, senses”, or “skills”, etc.
I would LOVE some public APIs available to subscribers. I was just thinking about building a personal DM screen app to use with my CustomGPT and pull in character sheets. Would be awesome if I could, say, send items, notes, campaign details, etc. directly to players' inventory/sheet from my app.
Feedback channel is the best way for that desire to be heard. But neither owner of DDB has expressed any interest in making an API public. I'm curious as to whether DDB will double down on that as it rolls out more tools to for the new D&D version or maybe open things up more for community development (precedent says the former but you never know, few thought we'd ever see 3rd Party stuff in the marketplace either).
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Back before the WoC take over I wrote a little home brew program to dump the dice log to a receipt printer. It was just for my own gratification and never distributed. It was a great hit at our last campaign because we could go to the "tape" for our roll history.
Now that WoC has taken control of D&D Beyond is there an official API we can use for just read only access?
I'm not sure entirely what you're asking.
Any API's that are read only access (which to my knowledge would just be the SRD and things of that nature if I'm understanding correctly) were always free and at this point have been cemented due to the mis handling of the OGL.
However, the only thing that has ever been free on DnD Beyond was using the character creator... and you could only use that with stuff you own (and there isn't a lot given for free)... and none of that was changed by DnD Beyond being bought out.
There is no officially supported public facing API
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Would the Campaign Log work for your purposes?
Dont think Ive heard of a log?
If you are on the website it will be a little chat box button near the top right of your screen, next to the name of the campaign. If you are on the app it will be a similar button to the right of the current page (i.e. to the right of “spells”, or “abilities, saves, senses”, or “skills”, etc.
I'm looking for a legal way to read that so I can dump it to a printer. Good idea but I dont think thats going to work
I would LOVE some public APIs available to subscribers. I was just thinking about building a personal DM screen app to use with my CustomGPT and pull in character sheets. Would be awesome if I could, say, send items, notes, campaign details, etc. directly to players' inventory/sheet from my app.
Feedback channel is the best way for that desire to be heard. But neither owner of DDB has expressed any interest in making an API public. I'm curious as to whether DDB will double down on that as it rolls out more tools to for the new D&D version or maybe open things up more for community development (precedent says the former but you never know, few thought we'd ever see 3rd Party stuff in the marketplace either).
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.