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

[SjonHortensius]

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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[zbynekwinkler]

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]

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]

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

[SjonHortensius]

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

[zbynekwinkler]

So you want to build another gittip? 😄 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]

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 :)

[zbynekwinkler]

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

[chadwhitacre]

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

[chadwhitacre]

+1 @clintonpaquin at #236 (comment):

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]

+1 from me too, I guess, for Open Company Initiative membership (cf. opencompany/www.opencompany.org#130).

[chadwhitacre]

+1 from Inkscape on #3351.

[mattbk]

This is part of #236.