Hi, > It is quite surprising, and, not very google-esque, how limited the APIs > are.
Well, the APIs are an ongoing project, and it's worth noting that some APIs exist that don't in other platforms, such as much of the Data Liberation work. In general, they tend to prioritize requests based on how many people need it. Your particular use case of needing to extract the last 500 messages are rather unusual, as I understand it. There are many ways around this, and honestly you could make them scale. There are email feed APIs you can use, there's the IMAP solution, etc. You could have a robot user in these groups and monitor things that way. I think that your problem is solvable, just not in the way you came in wanting it solved. > Is there a way to request Google make their APIs more robust? There are Google employees who read this list, so they'll be aware of this. > Does anyone know if Google has plans to upgrade their offerings? > I imagine we cannot be the only organization that requires more robust APIs. Indeed. If you look around for this, you'll see that a new groups API is already in the works. http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-mgmt-apis/browse_thread/thread/b1a3146d9eefd7ab/1863b3182b5350e5?lnk=gst&q=group+permission#1863b3182b5350e5 Cheers, - David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps Domain Information and Management APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-mgmt-apis?hl=en.
