I am also your undying (some say undead) fan but I love automated access to my secure accounts. Until Google put the kabosh on one of my scripts by doing their login via JS I could check my whole AdSense history with stats, trends, trailing averages, and other spreadsheet-ish stuff from the command line on a whim. Now I have to login, sometimes twice because they won't allow a gmail account to have access in some places and other places they require it so I get cookie tag-teamed by them (really, really bad UI for Google and I can't believe it's still like that a year out), then either click around 4 or 5 times or download a CSV and run it through a tool or an app. Lame.

Everyone big should provide an API into their stuff. Customers are going to want it eventually and with an API the company gets to control it instead of spawning a dozen hacks to get at it.

In reply to Re^2: Trying to download account balance by Your Mother
in thread Trying to download account balance by n8g

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