Change History
New api methods will be announced here. Changes in our data that is relevant to checkers scripts/tags will also be announced here.
Changed By: magma1447
Change Date: March 19, 2026 11:29AM
Re: Upcoming privacy changes
bmuzzin Wrote:
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> So, quite a few of my checkers are now broken
> because of the GetHides change went live... did
> the getting the attributes from GetOldest et. al
> get added? (Don't see any change in the
> documentation).
In all honesty I can't keep track of the hundreds of discussions I have every week, so this doesn't really tell me anything.
Regarding `GetHides()`, the scripts has to handle the response. The scripts shouldn't become broken. They will however not return data for cache owners with privacy setting, but that is just an effect of Geocaching HQs privacy policy. Users with privacy settings breaks challenges in multiple way, nothing Project-GC can do about that.
I will look into adding the attributes to the following methods today.
PGC.GetOldestCaches
PGC.GetFavorites
PGC.GetHighestCaches
PGC.GetLowestCaches
Original Message
Author: magma1447
Date: March 19, 2026 11:29AM
Re: Upcoming privacy changes
bmuzzin Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> So, quite a few of my checkers are now broken
> because of the GetHides change went live... did
> the getting the attributes from GetOldest et. al
> get added? (Don't see any change in the
> documentation).
In all honesty I can't keep track of the hundreds of discussions I have every week, so this doesn't really tell me anything.
Regarding `GetHides()`, the scripts has to handle the response. The scripts shouldn't become broken. They will however not return data for cache owners with privacy setting, but that is just an effect of Geocaching HQs privacy policy. Users with privacy settings breaks challenges in multiple way, nothing Project-GC can do about that.
I will look into adding the attributes to the following methods today.
PGC.GetOldestCaches
PGC.GetFavorites
PGC.GetHighestCaches
PGC.GetLowestCaches