Hi

Does anyone know if is is possible for Scratch to communicate with external web APIs please?

I can see that it is possible to write extensions that communicate with external hardware and that communication is done via http requests. But I don't know if that would extend to remote web based APIs?

My thinking is that it would be great to be able to access the host of web apis out there so that the characters can, for example, tell you what the weather is going to be like today or similar. My kids would get a real kick out of that.

Any thoughts or feedback would be most welcome.

Thank you!

I think you and your kids would find ScratchX interesting! It's an official website dedicated to extensions that connect to the internet or external hardware (actually there's also a few extensions that connect to your computer or browser, letting you do things like playing text as speech).

Extensions are generally programmed using JavaScript. You can find more information about making them on the ScratchX wiki. There's also a fair bit of information in the Developing Scratch Extensions forum (plus you can ask any extension-related questions there).

You can't share projects made with Scratch extensions on the Scratch website, but you can save and load them with the “file” menu in the editor.

Thank you, that's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for! Love it. We'll definitely have a play with that. Great Spotify extension!

Much appreciated!

This is so cool!

coolcoder1213 wrote:

This is so cool!

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AlGamesDeveIoper wrote:

coolcoder1213 wrote:

This is so cool!

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Thanks!

What does that even mean?