What API do you wish existed?

To my phone, specifically to standard apps so I could make a server that does what they cannot.

For example, I could send usage reports sms to my gas provider from a home dashboard. Auto-check incoming calls with few web services and block them. Parse notifications and delete irrelevant ones. Add reminders via simpler ui or parse from notes.

In the end I’d probably end up with my own phone-control webapp and would rarely visit standard apps.

A charity API. When people outside my contacts list first email me, I would (auto) generate and send a charity donation link to them, and once the donation is verified, I'd let their mail through.

I've been thinking about a captcha-like "prove you're not a bot/spammer" system for emails and I think charity donations would be a good test of that.

> There are many awesome APIs in the world

...and not enough people are taking advantage of them.

So this is my wish : Not more and more APIs, but a better use of what we got.

How ? Better no-code web data extraction, and its integration with the tools we already use (excel...)

Example ? https://coda.io/product/packs

A good, reliable api to archive web pages in multiple formats and extract the article text. The best are very expensive - look up Diffbot, it’s the best I’ve found but at $299 a month, it’s expensive. I’d happily pay per web page extracted, but the upfront minimum is too much.

Yodlee, but free