# Current red line value from goal API? **URL:** \ **Category:** Tech\ **Created:** [August 20, 2022, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/current-red-line-value-from-goal-api/10503 "2022-08-20T11:41:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![zzq](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/zzq/32/6471_2.png) [@zzq](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zzq)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/current-red-line-value-from-goal-api/10503/3 "2022-08-20T16:20:51Z")
I think the (deprecated) `baremintotal` field contains the information you want, but unfortunately it’s a string (intended for display), not a number. If you really wanted to use it for this you’d have to parse it, taking into account that for timey goals it’s in `hour:minute` format. (Also, it’s generally a bad idea to build something new that depends on a deprecated field, and all that.) I agree with @adamwolf that a non-deprecated version of this (as a number, without the need for reverse-engineering) would make a very good addition to the API. As for “what is a day’s value” (which also would make a very good addition to the API), at least for now Altbee has an API for calculating this. (I’ve previously described it [here](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-mathematica-package/7385/12).) It works something like this: ```bash curl -s \ https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/me/goals/$GOAL.json?auth_token=$AUTH_TOKEN\&datapoints=true | curl https://altbee.aeonc.com/api/bagg \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' --data @- ``` That is, just send to `https://altbee.aeonc.com/api/bagg` a `POST` with the results from the Beeminder goal API (with `datapoints=true`), and you’ll get back the same object with an additional field with the aggregated values for each day. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/current-red-line-value-from-goal-api/10503)._