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guygodin
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June 18, 2014

Public API for Oculus Share?

I was wondering if there are any plans on having public web api's for oculus share? I would like to add the ability to browse available games/demos, download & install them, etc. within Virtual Desktop (viewtopic.php?f=29&t=8182)

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    stchris
    Up and Coming
    June 18, 2014
    now that would be pretty sweet
    cybereality
    Inspiring
    June 18, 2014
    I don't think there are any plans to do this.
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    guygodinAuthor
    Up and Coming
    June 19, 2014
    "cybereality" wrote:
    I don't think there are any plans to do this.

    Roger that. I'll put the feature on hold then.
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    ChiaraStellata
    Up and Coming
    June 19, 2014
    You could do this with web scraping, provided it's not against Terms of Service, but that would require maintenance as the website changes. Up to you whether you think the effort is worth it. There are some nice libraries that could be used to build a scraping server that presents a nice API, like Beautiful Soup.
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    guygodinAuthor
    Up and Coming
    June 19, 2014
    heh true! There are also other websites that have similar data (like RiftEnabled.com which has its own database of games). But I don't think it's worth all the trouble. Some games have direct download links, some don't, some can be deployed with x-copy, others have setup programs, etc. so it wouldn't be a small task. If Oculus ever comes up with an API (and infrastructure) in the future then I'll certainly use it, for now I'll keep this as a weekend project :P
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