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Q&A Do we have a public API yet?

I've looked around for information on an existing or planned public API for Codidact but I haven't yet found one. I'm not sure if this means it was decided not to include it in the MVP or if it exi...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by trichoplax‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar trichoplax‭ · 2021-04-19T07:12:03Z (almost 3 years ago)
Do we have a public API yet?
I've looked around for information on an existing or planned public API for Codidact but I haven't yet found one. I'm not sure if this means it was decided not to include it in the [MVP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product "Minimal Viable Product") or if it exists but is not easy to find (for me, at least).

The only reference to a public API that I could find was [a post in the old discussion forum](https://forum.codidact.org/t/public-api-for-codidact/949 "Public API for Codidact") which suggested a public API was planned but may not be MVP (at that point it was still to be decided).

The reason I'm interested in a public API is for reading answer content from a particular question in order to run another coding contest like [one that I posted in 2017](https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/135102/formic-functions-ant-queen-of-the-hill-contest "Formic Functions"). I no longer post to Stack Exchange, but I like the idea of a question where the answers can be read automatically by external code and the code the answers contain can be run against each other to generate a leaderboard. The "Challenge" post type on [Code Golf Codidact](https://codegolf.codidact.com/ "Code Golf community on Codidact") (using the tag "king-of-the-hill") seems ideal for this, apart from the lack of a public API.

So my questions are:

 - Do Codidact sites already have a public API?
 - If not, is there a plan to introduce one?
 - If there is a plan, is this already specified or is there opportunity to be involved in discussion of its specifications?