Any API changes ? Captain name not being picked up

[fatih.koz]

Hi,

Recently I am observing that after passing the required data through the API, Captain’s name is not being used/shown on generated OFP’s.

As per the post here (and in developers portal), we should be sending it with “cpt” as the key and the value as string, and this is what we were doing for years.

Are there any undocumented changes in the API or this is just a bug ?

Thanks

[Rodeo314]

Yes, this is intentional. The “old”, non-authenticated API no longer includes the captain name (as a simple user, I am not privy to the reason for the change, but I imagine this is because it often is a real person’s full name and as such can be considered private information).

There is another, authenticated way to fetch the OFP which does include all the data, although I don’t remember the details off the top of my head.

Regards,

Tim

[Rodeo314]

Here is some additional information:

Simbrief XML file

Hi, this data is no longer available in v1 of the API. The developer will need to move to a newer version of the API, which requires them to implement the Navigraph Authentication flow. If this is something they are interested in, they should reach out to dev@navigraph.com for further guidance! Best regards,

Regards,

Tim

[fatih.koz]

Hi Tim,

Looks like it is the reason (even though I do send a privatized name) the return does not include it… But the v1 of the API already uses authentication, which is required to begin the process.

But the endpoint returning the XML was a little bit out of date and sort of non-authorized Probably they wanted to implement more data protection there. I will investigate further, thanks for the links