API: more info about users

[stephanhuebsch]

I would like to propose some new API endpoints: it would be nice to have an API endpoint for the following public user data:

• number of tournament points (int) [*]
• number of published studies (int) [*]
• number of forum posts (int) [*]
• number of published blog posts (int) [*]
• progress of chess basics (either percentage (int) or finished or not (boolean))
• progress of practice (either percentage (int) or finished or not (boolean))

[*] as visible on a user page

The number of published studies might be obtainable by checking the length of the list of a studies by a user, but I think it would be nevertheless nice to have a simple endpoint in the user data.

[ornicar]

Who needs them and what for? I only add APIs that are actually going to be used

[stephanhuebsch]

I'm working on a website that displays user statistics. It's just a small project that I'm pursuing in my spare time -not sure if there are any other potential use cases.

[cmgchess]

scraping is also an option if no other way

[stephanhuebsch]

@cmgchess Sure, I've thought about that. However, I found this text on https://lichess.org/page/api-tips:

If you have a use case that is not covered, please do ask us about it and we may consider adding it. We would much rather add an endpoint than have people use web-scraping or browser automation tools!