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Use API to retrieve list of users that are currently tipping me #1546

Closed SjonHortensius closed 8 years ago

SjonHortensius commented 10 years ago

I would like to offer additional service to people that are tipping me; but I need the list of people and the amount they tip me weekly, possibly including start-date and total-amount so far. Is this possible through the API?

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zwn commented 10 years ago

Not only is this not possible through the API, it is not possible at all since that is one of the main points of gittip. See https://www.gittip.com/about/ (the part with "no strings attached"). There has been a discussion about this aspect, see also #236.

SjonHortensius commented 10 years ago

Thanks; I missed that part in the about page; the issue you reference gives a good background for this decision. Too bad; I wanted to forward incoming tips to other developers on gittip anyway; but that'll be harder now.

I'll have a look at alternative micro-payment providers.

tshepang commented 10 years ago

@SjonHortensius why does lack of this knowledge make this harder?

SjonHortensius commented 10 years ago

Instead of using gittip to accept micropayments and forward that to other developers; I would need to use a different psp that charges ~ $.30 + 3% for a $1 payment then transfer that money to my bank-account (paying for conversion) then use my credit-card to get money to gittip, paying again for conversion. I would also pay for the credit-card and the bank-account while this would otherwise be a closed circuit

zwn commented 10 years ago

So you want to build another gittip? :smile: Because that is what gittip does. Do you have some added value on mind that is lacked from current gittip that makes you think about your own implementation?

SjonHortensius commented 10 years ago

Yes, if I wanted to use gittip as a psp, I need to know who is paying and what they are paying. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to offer additional services to those users. That is the original reason for this request :)

zwn commented 10 years ago

That much I figured. I was trying to ask what are the additional services you wish to provide.

chadwhitacre commented 9 years ago

+3 @syncome @rummik @incni over on #3126, which I'm closing as a dupe, reopening here.

chadwhitacre commented 9 years ago

+1 @clintonpaquin at https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/236#issuecomment-37193614:

My idea was to reward tippers by granting them web access to certain areas of my project (think ACL). I don't really care who they are (Ie. I don't need their name, info, etc...) all I want is to know that they have tipped and then I can grant them ACL privileges. Even an endpoint that I can hit to give me a list of users that have tipped me would be sufficient. Thoughts?

chadwhitacre commented 9 years ago

+1 from me too, I guess, for Open Company Initiative membership (cf. https://github.com/opencompany/www.opencompany.org/issues/130).

chadwhitacre commented 9 years ago

+1 from Inkscape on #3351.

mattbk commented 8 years ago

This is part of https://github.com/gratipay/gratipay.com/issues/236.