# API on Desktop Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [January 20, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/api-on-desktop-edition/45126 "2023-01-20T13:07:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Ealfardan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ealfardan/32/63166_2.png) [@Ealfardan](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ealfardan)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/api-on-desktop-edition/45126/8 "2023-03-07T00:48:14Z")
I’m not sure why this feature was removed or if there’s going to be an alternative for it. I too thought appending `.json` to the URL was a great feature to have since it checked all of the following boxes: 1. Restricted users could use it without need for an admin password. This in itself solves many security problems. 2. Retreival of data is much faster and more efficient than using the backend API. It’s just as costly as visiting the webpage. I was mostly using this to get transactions data. 3. It reduced the work of reporting to a single click of a button: click, report gets created, get the uuid back, build the url and share just that. Anyway, @isotherm request seems very reasonable since it should solve part of the issue here. > [@isotherm](#): > > It would be great if the API, with each Result object, provided the URL for the user-facing URL for the corresponding object Also, there’s this other idea for querying of full reports: > [@How to access to Manager data](https://forum.manager.io/t/how-to-access-to-manager-data/33502): > > Dear @lubos, I’m getting a little frustrated in order to get access to my data that is stored in Manager. I know that I can copy it in Excel, export It through batch create, etc etc but since my business, fortunately, is growing I would like to get rid of Excel for reporting and use a BI tool. I tried the hypothesis to dump data through restful api but I cannot have access to the big transaction table which is fundamental for any kind of analisys. It would be like rewriting Manager from scrat… As for restricted users, this could be the solution: > [@Manager Features urgently required to implement API](https://forum.manager.io/t/manager-features-urgently-required-to-implement-api/33996/2): > > The work I’m currently doing will (beside other things) result in finalization and release of API documentation. I thought I will finish this month but now it looks like it will take until end of next month. Lots of internal changes and the challenge is to re-implement existing features in certain way while not breaking them. Lots of users using Manager in all kinds of ways (some quite obscure which I didn’t consider). UUID will be always used internally and it’s what it should be used when tw… I think these three additions would be as good as the previous setup. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.manager.io/t/api-on-desktop-edition/45126)._