Is there any way to get the equivalent of the user's recent information on the site? I can see it's possible with the API but would involve a lot of hammering of the API.
Edit: here's an example of my recent details (with some actual data): https://stackapps.com/users/recent/1174?StartDate=2010-05-30&EndDate=2010-05-30
Yes, currently it would involve a lot of "hammering". I would love to see something like this get added too so that apps that need to "monitor" certain events can poll that method for changes.
As for implementation, the method could maybe return an array of actions and each would have a type member.
Isn't users/{id}/timeline method quite similar?
You could get
"comments, questions, answers, badges, revisions, or accepted status"
Most of this information is exposed via the /users/{id}/timeline method. The rest can be gleaned from the /users/{id}/reputation and /users/{id}/mentioned methods.
Is there something exposed via the "envelope" that you can't get at through the API?
