Ingress API Proposal

My idea how a working Ingress API could look like.

The current state in human readable form is available via: Swagger.io

The basic concept is:

1. All Agent Identifiable information needs to be explizitly shared by the Agent
2. Game state and static game data is available with an developer apiKey in a limited manner

What kind of services should be possible?

• Stat comparsion and progress services (Agentstats)
• stat competition services: (EBL, The Grid)
• screenshot services, (ICE, IIDSC)
• mosaik overview and tracking (ingressmosaiks.com)
• inventory managment (multiple)
• own activity visualisation (unique vists/capture maps, own activity heatmap etc)

What kind of service should not be possible?

• Agent Tracking (without their explizit consent)
• Mass Data scrapping for an area
• live alerts for status changes.

Which services are discussable?

historical anonymised activity analyses to render different kind of stats.

• there where 100.000 Hacks in the last 24 hours in $city,
• in the last year where 3000 different agents in the area active (1767 RES/ 1233 ENL)

The problem with services like this is if the data set is selected to be small enough or otherwise filterable it is possible to track down a single agent or a small group of agents.