Went to WK History just to try things out (hadn’t done so in a while). And then I was reminded…
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between the radio silence on this and the update that broke every single dashboard userscript late last month its becoming harder and harder to justify renewing my subscription just went ahead and cancelled it.
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Don’t forget the completely random, useless updates that nobody asked for (adding the Recent Mistakes panel, rearranging the Extra Study section, redesigning the SRS indicators, etc) while simultaniously preaching about how “busy” they are with “more important features” and complaining about how “nothing they do could ever please us - we’re just too ungrateful and demanding.” It gets old. It’s been over 13 months and all we’re getting is Tofugu employees complaining about how impatient we are?? Like what more do they want from us? Does it take at least 2 years of waiting in order to be considered “patient” and “understanding” in their eyes? Why are they so opposed to just fixing the one thing we’re all asking for? Did anybody, ever ask for the Extra Study section to be rearranged? No. Absolutely nobody asked for that. Ever. And yet somehow that made it higher on the priority list than this.
And even when we put aside our desire to have it fixed and literally just ask for an explanation as to why it isn’t being worked on - even that’s somehow too much to ask?
Like it’s one thing to ignore us for over a year - it’s a whole other thing to then go into other threads and complain about how “demanding” we are. Really, really frustrating.
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Any update???
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We’re now aprox at the 1½ year anniversary of this being ““temporarily”” disabled 
I’ve basically given up hope they’re ever going to care enough to fix it tbh… When I last sent an email asking about it they just said they had nothing to share (just like for the rest of the past 18 months) - so their “actively evaluating options” and “working on it” obviously just meant “disable it, lie to them to make it sound like it’ll be back, and then ignore any questions about it” 
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I love the Wanikani Heatmap. It actually reflects a lot of history for me - I can see where some difficult periods in my life occurred because my review numbers were down.
Is is possible to make it so that we could at least be able to download an image of the previous years’ heatmaps?
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I’m not sure if you’re asking for the right thing in the wrong place or the wrong thing in the right place.
Are you saying your heatmap still shows previous years’ data on it and you just want to have images of that? Or are you saying your heatmap is mostly blank now and you want one-time images of the previous years data that was lost?
If it’s the former
The solution is painfully simple (though it would’ve made more sense in the Heatmap thread): just take cropped screenshots. On Windows, Win+Shift+S in Rectangle mode would do rather well here.
If it’s the latter
There is no present solution (though it would mean you’re technically in the right place, since this is the root of the problem). The API was disabled. It’s as if a vending machine that you used to frequent has been decommissioned and is no longer restocked by anyone other than yourself.
If it’s neither
Then I’ll probably become very confused. Maybe the way you worded it tripped me up, since you’re focused on the heatmaps aspect, when that’s simply a third-party implementation that used this API.
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Sorry to be confusing. It’s the latter.
I didn’t notice the date on this thread before I posted; I just clicked the 
on the heatmap when I saw that my previous years had disappeared, and it brought me here.
Is it weird that my data was there until just now? No, now that I think about it, it must be because I cleared my browser history for the first time in - well, over a year.
Really, I should have known better than to expect things to stay forever. Too bad I didn’t do screenshots long ago 
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Thanks for the reminder!
Heatmap still shows past history for lessons, but nothing lasts forever.
I’ll take another screenshot of my legendary lesson streak just in case.
To get a one-off copy of all your past reviews - if you’re in the EU you can request a copy of your data under GDPR and they have to provide it to you. Some code could theoretically then be written to convert that to a format that Heatmap would accept… Might ask about whether importing data to the heatmap like that would be possible in the Heatmap thread as if so I might take a look at writing some quick python to do that when I next have time.
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I’m no legal expert (and not from the EU), but I assume that that only applies to any information that could be used to identify an individual. I highly doubt that a person’s history of reviews would constitute that…
Even if I’m wrong, the end result of that would essentially just be strong-arming the WaniKani team to give you your review data. If that’s the route someone wants to go, then I guess they have the right, but it does feel a bit unsettling to me.
It does include review data - it includes any data linked to you personally. In the case of WaniKani that’s not actually very much though, as they don’t process payments themselves and seem to anonymise the metrics they track.
It’s not really strong-arming them into it in any negative way 
I paid hundreds of euros (a lot of money as a student) for a service that included an API with access to my review data, which they then promptly removed afterwards and basically lied about actively working on restoring access to, so morally I feel absolutely no problem in requesting a copy of the info they have about my history. And in the EU we have a legal right to our data.
Of course, it’s not something I’d request multiple times a month or even multiple times a year (although idk why I even care about not giving them extra work when they’ve shown they couldn’t care less about users like me lol) so it’s obviously not a solution to the API issue, but it could work to one-off restore past review data for EU users. If they felt unusually kind they’d maybe even provide it to someone outside the EU, but there’s not legal basis for it in that situation afaik.
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So is there any news on this?
Being able to see a history of how many reviews you do per day seems like a really basic feature which should be part of the website to begin with, are there really no plans to provide something like that for the users?
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