The Idea

One day I was sitting at my computer bored and suddenly I thought:

“What is there was a Scratch API. How funny would that be!”

So I went and searched it up on my computer. A Scratch wiki page for it came up and it surprised me. I had some knowledge of APIs but no experience. I knew I had to create an app that uses the API.

Scratch API

Scratch API, is an API like anything else but for Scratch. The way it works is you go to a page you want an API for and you just change the subdomain to api.scratch. For example, if I wanted the API for my profile, I would go to api.scratch.mit.edu/users/lasertag72 and at the page, it would return:

{
    "id": 39902949,
    "username": "lasertag72",
    "scratchteam": false,
    "history": {
        "joined": "2018-12-19T03:59:51.000Z"
    },
    "profile": {
        "id": 39027670,
        "images": {
            "90x90": "https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/user/39902949_90x90.png?v=",
            "60x60": "https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/user/39902949_60x60.png?v=",
            "55x55": "https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/user/39902949_55x55.png?v=",
            "50x50": "https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/user/39902949_50x50.png?v=",
            "32x32": "https://cdn2.scratch.mit.edu/get_image/user/39902949_32x32.png?v="
        },
        "status": "",
        "bio": "I'm retired \n\nstatus = %1\n\nnvm hehehehhe",
        "country": "United States"
    }
}

Problems With Implementation

When I tried to access the API it gave me an error mentioning Cross-origin resource sharing or CORS. If you go to the finished project linked below then you’d see at the top with big red text it requires you to install this to allow the project to access the API. I soon plan to figure out how to get the project to work without this extension but as of right now, you have to install the extension

The Finished Project

You can see and contribute the finished project here.