Dear Gramps users and developers, the first version of the Gramps Web API has been released today. What is it? It is a new Python package that allows yout to host your family tree database on a web server and access it via a HTTP REST API. Currently, only read access is implemented, but adding wr…

[image] New releases, updated docs, call for support Hi all, this weekend [24 Jun 2023], some new things were released around Gramps Web: Version 1.0 of Gramps Web API (the server-side code for Gramps Web) Version 0.21 of Gramps.js (the client-side code for Gramps Web running in the user’s br…

Nice work and very intriguing! As a matter of policy, can we open a conversation about the defaults for private data? It seems defaults should always favor privacy, even above being exhaustively inclusive. That programmers should have to explicitly request PRIVATE data rather than the converse. A…

Thanks! In principle I agree of course about the importance of privacy. But I think in this specific case it’s not an issue. In general, the API should never be used without authentication (i.e. completely exposed to the public), unless it’s for local testing. This is stressed in the documentation…

This is an exciting development! Regarding the authorization levels, I’ll wait for the documentation, but I’m hoping there will be a way to define authorization groups using person filters. Currently when we share our trees, whether by exporting to GEDCOM or generating a narrative web site, we’re …

Yes, what you describe would be perfect! For my own tree, I am currently setting all objects associated to living people as private and do not share them, which has the unfortunate side effect that my cousins etc. don’t even see their own data. We started with private/non-private because that’s the …

Gramps Web API: first release [July 2021]

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emyoulation June 25, 2023, 8:09pm 8

Closing this alpha/beta developmental thread on 25 Jun 2023, now that Gramps Web has had the v1.0.0 release.

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Gramps Web API: first release [July 2021]

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