EdgarVerona

Indeed, from an API perspective not much of anything will change with Steam and the Blizzard-to-Steam Migration. I can't go into detail yet, but users of the API should indeed keep an eye on the Github for more information when we're able to share more.

The more concerning changes will be centered around Cross Save - reading this document should prepare you:

https://github.com/Bungie-net/api/wiki/FAQ:-Cross-Save-pre-launch-testing,-and-how-it-may-affect-you

Shadowkeep changes like Armor 2.0 are also something I can't talk about in detail just yet, but suffice to say Sockets and Plugs are getting even mo...

My injection attack failed!

Indeed, a variety of tech! I don't know how much I can go into it, but indeed SQL is part of our decently diverse stack. There's a surprisingly large amount of infrastructure on the server side of the game and Bungie.net!

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Sort of! It's a SQL injection attack joke, stolen shamelessly from https://xkcd.com/327/

Funny story, I convinced the last place I worked to name one of its conference rooms Little Bobby Tables.

I could not convince them to name it ); DROP TABLE ConferenceRooms; --

No problem, I'm glad to when I can! I'm looking forward to it too - hopefully you all will enjoy it! (I think you will!)

Greetings! Unfortunately, I've had my hands full working on Cross Save! We haven't had much time to work on new features for the API, though I've been getting some help lately to at least keep the current features going.

Hopefully we'll be able to loop back and look at improving the API again once all of the quickly approaching deadlines are behind us!

https://i.imgur.com/wePPD0N.png

(our bad, we're fixing this - it's just an error on the API/Companion's part)

Thanks! Glad to be of help!

Looping back to this - turns out indeed that this is just an old test item that never ended up getting used. We'll pull it out the next time we release - it'll be a couple of weeks, but it should disappear by the end of the month!

Yeah, go for it! Gives us a good place to relay info for future reference!

First I have heard of the item! I can ask around on Monday, but I'm about 80% sure this is just something that never actually became a real feature and was never removed.

Yes, check out https://github.com/Bungie-net/api/ for more information! You'll find that there's an ocean of both static information (which includes the images and "definitions" of items etc you are looking for) which you can grab either via downloading JSON files or grabbing our mobile SQLite databases, and live data that you can get by hitting our endpoints.

It's a bit of an involved process, but that's the best place to start up!

As far as what you're allowed to do with it, when you generate an API key for your application at:

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Do you get a two-factor auth prompt?

If so, this is an issue that we are currently attempting to resolve with Sony. As a workaround, if you have any other platform credential linked to the same bungie.net account, try logging in with that.

More info here, this is the best place to get updates about this particular issue:

https://github.com/Bungie-net/api/issues/897

We're currently looking into the 2 factor authorization issues - I apologize for the hassle! If you happen to have a different account linked to the same Bungie.net account (like a Blizzard or XBox account), you can use that as your login mechanism for the time being. If you don't have a second account linked, unfortunately we won't have a good workaround until we resolve this issue with Sony.

Keep an eye out at the following location in the meantime, once we resolve this issue we'll update there: h...

Thanks, I love chatting when I'm able to!

Unfortunately I don't know if anything we're working on at the moment is anything I'm allowed to talk about just yet, but hopefully soon! Since January my plate's been filled with non-API-related tasks (including the work we had to do to begin moving away some things that were being hosted by Activision). Life at home has been keeping me busy too: I got married at the end of January, and we just got back from our honeymoon a week or so ago!

My current work is... tangentially related to the API, or at least to the Bungie.net backend: but nothing that results in cool new user-facing features in the API unfortunately. But my hope is that I'll be able to loop back to it once all of this current work is done! The API's backlog of feature requests grows weekly, there's so much to do and so little time!

There's a lot in there that I don't actually know about being on the API side, so I don't have the expertise to talk about it (for example, what performance constraints exist when you're in the tower specifically).

I can say that, indeed, vault transfer and other features that you can get at from the API are essentially managed by their own logic on our servers, and can be accessed at any time (barring certain restrictions put in place intentionally to prevent potential harmful edge cases, like how some actions aren't allowed to be performed while in an activity). That divide is also why some actions are theoretically possible from the API where others aren't: it all depends on what types of servers performing what actions the API has access to.

For instance, you'll note that we can't return you an accurate statement for information like the current amount of ammunition you still have available: that's handled by a different set of infrastructure that the API can't...

Thank you! <3

Thank you! <3