I think that tools like scratch and code.org really need to expand their ability to interact with 3rd party services. Code.org has a very limited http request A

I think that tools like scratch and code.org really need to expand their ability to interact with 3rd party services. Code.org has a very limited http request API, but it is locked down to a couple APIs (I’ve looked at this feature, and I have… concerns over API key security) while scratch has no such capability. I really think that this type of thing helps ease the transition between block coding and using a written language. I do understand that there are some concerns with abuse, but I think that many of those concerns have effective mitigations.