API

[gampleman]

It would be nice if one could create and update Ellies programatically.

Let me elaborate on my usecase for this. Elm-visualization has a companion website that shows a bunch of examples of using the library. This works well, but if a user wants to start experimenting with one of the examples, they need to do a fair amount of setup to get to a place where they can even compile one of the examples. Ideally, there would be a link to an Ellie version of the example, so they could start hacking right away.

Now the example website it built using this tool. I would like to add a command to the tool that would go and publish all the examples as ellies and add the links into the generated website.

[gampleman]

An alternative to this would be a way to prefill an Ellie. See this page for what codepen.io does here.

[supermacro]

Bumping this feature request. I am working on a documentation site and I would like to generate ellie's programmatically. Althought I wasn't really thinking of an API, but rather being able to load an ellie with a base64 encoded elm program as part of the url:

i.e.

https://ellie-app.com?program=<base64EncodedProgram>

[gampleman]

So turns out there are 2 existing ways to proceed with this.

1. You can use the GraphQL API that Ellie itself uses. You can play with it here. For an example that illustrates publishing, see here.

2. According to @lukewestby:

...there’s a little-known feature where you can prefill a new Ellie without having to save

https://ellie-app.com/a/example/v1?title=hello%20world&elmcode=hello&htmlcode=world&packages=elm%2Fbrowser%401.0.2&elmversion=0.19.0

(Small thing - the percent decoder doesn’t handle + correctly so you have to use %20 for spaces)

So the main thing missing is some documentation on this.