Proposal+spec for a "Plain Data" integration

[skorytnicki]

I like it. It’s very similar to, or the same as I proposed here:

Easier data pull proposal

Hey, I think it would be super useful to have something like this: [image] Currently, in order to create a custom data source that is called by beeminder, you have to set up the application, generate some tokens. If you do it, it’s not obvious how to share your integration with the others. You have to prepare UI for your app and store your users’ data in some safe way. How about we could simply insert the URL that beeminder would call couple of times a day? Nowadays there are plenty of fre…

There were some legit concerns in this thread:

Prioritizing autodata integrations

I think before we make it dramatically easier for users to create integrations, we need to improve our reporting. If we don’t expose what we’re calling, when we’re calling it, how long it took, what the response was, and how that affected the datapoints, I worry we’d be setting ourselves up for a massive amount of support–but if we had those things exposed, it’d be much easier for folks to “self-service”. I worry that without more of these details available, it could be more support per integr…