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Re:Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams by wolframhempel on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:12PM (#17859972)
Cheers! curious what people will build with it
Re:Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams by sbr464 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:19PM (#17860049)
I'd be interested in getting the ui/diagrams via an API, so I can integrate into our app, render in custom ways. Not using an iframe or embed, but just the structure of a diagram that was built earlier on your normal platform, maybe with the device icons as a png/svg url possibly.

Side question, is there currently a lighter weight embed avail, that would live update etc? or only the builder UI?

Re:Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams by wolframhempel on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:26PM (#17860130)
Actually, that's a great idea - being able to publish the whole document as JSON (a bit like Google Doc's Publish to Web feature which Arcentry is using to load its component data from a spreadsheet). It definitely makes sense to add that to the export options, thanks for suggesting. In regards to embedding, I'm afraid there's currently only image download or the embed as the 3D viewer available (which is about 500k, granted)
Re:Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams by sbr464 on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:41PM (#17860322)
thanks, does the viewer come in a readonly option?
Re:Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams by wolframhempel on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @12:50PM (#17860424)
the viewer is always read-only. Actually, once you've enabled a document for embedding you could just use the same request the viewer uses to load its data, e.g. https://arcentry.com/api/embed/get?id=b03e4004-ffdd-49b4-9ca...