Upcoming & Active Drops via API for Devs
Why is there not currently an api that allows for regular developers to access the current upcoming/active drops?
There are a couple of usecases for this (off the top of my head), for example;
- displaying all active drops for specific games on a website like a fandom.
- announcing upcoming drops via a discord bot.
Currently some games are creating drop campaigns with no official notices or schedules and with a short turn around. Drops go live within 2-3 hours of creation and last 2-3hours, if you're not sitting refreshing the drops page every hour you're likely to miss the drop campaign.
Creating an api for the devs puts the visibility of drop campaigns into the users hands and not the companies creating the drops - imo I don't see why this wouldn't also help get more traffic and revenue into twitch given better visibility of drops.
LordRAT96
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CraftyKanine
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How have only 18 people voted for this in 3 years? This is so desperately needed it hurts.
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MrSilaz
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That would still be needed.
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waspoza
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So one could write a program that warns the user about new drop campaign for his favorite game instead manually checking the campaign page every day.
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FIatIine
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I logged to see if anybody else suggested this. I NEED this.
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Zeny_IC
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I second this :)
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BadDub
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I second this