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What Central Archives is Not

The Central Archives APIs are intentionally limited in scope. Only two APIs are exposed: one for the identity provider and one for the roleplay portal.

  • Central Archives is not a Lodestone scraper. While the character verification feature does make use of a Lodestone scraper library, its functionality is not exposed as a public API. If you need a Lodestone scraper, install a self-hosted library.
  • Central Archives is not a game data API. If you need to enumerate world servers or game content, use XIVAPI or host your own implementation.
  • Central Archives is not meant for storing arbitrary data attached to characters. The Roleplay API is meant for storing and displaying human-readable roleplay profiles. It's not a place for your plugin to store binary codes that make sense only to your plugin. Use your own server for that.
  • Central Archives doesn't support custom authorization logic. You can offload authentication to the Identity API, but you can't offload your own authorization logic. The Identity API will verify who the user is and/or what characters they own, but determining what users can or cannot access in your service (Alice is an administrator, Bob is a moderator, Charlie is a regular user, Mallory is banned) or additional restrictions (e.g. only lalafell players can see a particular page) is something you will have to implement yourself.