How to simply validate if a user is a patreon

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I’m looking for a simple, insecure, and quick way to check if a given user by email is a patreon of mine.
Basically the user enters his email address in my program that asks my server and the server reports back if that email belongs to a patreon of mine or not.
Since its software and software copies don’t cost anything to manufacture, I really don’t care if someone guesses an email right and gets to use the software for free.

I don’t want the users to have to go to my website and login or anything, ideally I would like an API that is accessible by my server and that tells me a list of active patrons with their emails.

As simple as that. I skimmed through the docs but it seams to me that such a simple API is not present?

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A simple sequence can work:

  • Get the PHP lib or duplicate its functionality for making api calls
  • Create an app and get the creator’s access token from there to use in your app
  • Set up a cron to regularly pull in your patrons to a local db table
  • Set up a simple query box that will search the table for the email
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Could you please point me to which API call gives me the list of my patrons.
do you mean this api: API Reference
found a working sample of what i need: GitHub - shreyasx/patreonAPI: A simple NodeJS application that on running, fetches and shows all pledges to my Campaign on Patreon. Easily update the ACCESS_TOKEN and the CAMPAIGN_ID from .env to get details of your own Patreon Campaign!

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API Reference The campaigns/{campaign_id}/members route will provide you a list of your campaign members. Be advised the followers and former patrons can also show up in this call so you will have to account for that in your code.

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