Hi! Is it possible for a plugin like this but with patreon instead? It would seem very good for checking if someone is subscribed to you or not
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Hi. How are you doing?
Thank you for your suggestion.
I'll be honest with you: That was going to be one of my previous plugins.
The problem lies in the fact that Patreon's API is really bad and very difficult to use. Not to mention that it caused me many complications, incomplete information, difficulties retrieving data unless I used encrypted queries, and many other issues.
In the end, after days and days of work, I could only get basic information, such as the user's name, some extra data, but what I was really interested in a True/False return indicating whether they are subscribed to X content, was very difficult, since it returns two dates, because Patreon works with subscriptions. And this made it very hard to program, since I had to consider cases where the user "Cancels the Subscription" but still has access, whether the subscription was refunded or not, etc. etc...
So that's why I gave up, because I got tired of not being able to access the information so easily.
I hope you can understand, but thank you very much for the suggestion.
Darn thats unfortunate. Hopefully they fix or update their API soon because the alternative seems to be making multiple itch projects for purchases and that sounds very ineffective and not optimal at all, especially if you plan on making a gacha game or something. At least you tried though and im grateful this plugin exists at least!