# API to get recent datapoints

**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700
**Category:** Akrasia
**Created:** [August 26, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700 "2019-08-26T15:12:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700/1 "2019-08-26T15:12:21Z")

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I could use an API call to get datapoints created/updated in the last say… 25 hours, and an API call to get datapoints with timestamps sometime in the last 25 hours.

Anyone else?

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### Author: ![narthur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/narthur/32/5113_2.png) [@narthur](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/narthur)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700/2 "2019-08-26T15:16:03Z")

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If this was general purpose, “give me all data points after timestamp,” I’m pretty certain I’d use it.

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### Author: ![adamwolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/adamwolf/32/484_2.png) [@adamwolf](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/adamwolf)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700/3 "2019-08-26T15:48:38Z")

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Sure. There’s already diff\_since on user, but it’s for all goals.

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### Author: ![phi](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/phi/32/2586_2.png) [@phi](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/phi)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/api-to-get-recent-datapoints/5700/4 "2019-08-27T18:00:22Z")

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Yes please!