API Updates and Upcoming SDK Changes, Oauth for SIWN, Smart Contracts, FC2X Open Source, and Farcaster Actions - Neynar

API Updates and Upcoming SDK Changes, Oauth for SIWN, Smart Contracts, FC2X Open Source, and Farcaster Actions

Oct 31, 2024

by

dylan

1. APIs and SDKs

• Recent updates

• Location APIs

• Improved cast metadata

• YouTube and Twitter link embeds for video thumbnails

• Quote casts are now getting hydrated as well

  • Upcoming next

• v2 NodeJS SDK

• Will make it even easier/faster to go from API changes to subsequent SDK changes

• Will update the v1 version for at least a month after v2 is released to give developers buffer time

  • Write APIs for blocks

2. SIWN

3. Oauth

• Will be moving to an Oauth 2.0 model

• Current model/existing use cases will continue working

• Enabling a way for developers to do SIWN through the backend, on your server-side(no client-side refresh token exposure)

4. Smart contracts

5. Moving from Base Sepolia to Mainnet

• More on our current Base Sepolia verification contract

6. Open source

• Farcaster → Twitter

• Other available repos in neynarxyz/farcaster-examples

7. Indexer services

• Made progress on ability to write custom schemas for customers

8. Farcaster Actions

• Shipped the API

• Seeing Stories and Recaster now working on writing to each other(one successful implementation in beta where Recaster can post Stories)