GEDCOM X RS interface to RootsMagic
Hi all,
GEDCOM X RS is the API used by FamilySearch; this is the API RootsMagic will be using to integrate with FamilySearch. I want to go in the other direction - I want to write a client that can call an API and get data from my RootsMagic database. In other words: I want to implement a read-only proxy that will connect to my RootsMagic database to publish my data via a GEDCOM X RS API.
Before I reinvent the wheel: Has anyone done this or seen something that does this?
I'm only planning to implement a small subset of the API, not the full thing.
Thanks,
Michael
You are the first person I've heard from with the idea you have presented. Very novel, indeed! Good luck with it and do keep us abreast of your major steps in progress.
My project has been published to https://github.com/aviast/rmgedcomx
Beware: I'm not anywhere near a good enough coder to have coded this project this quickly. This has been vibe coded - you have been warned 😀
There are two components to the project:
- A simple server written in Go, and
- An equally simple client written in Python.
The documentation is pretty comprehensive and should allow you to build and run the server without any issues. Once the server is running you can fire up the client and interrogate your RootsMagic database via GEDCOM X RD!
Please play with it and let me know if you have any issues or suggestions.
Regards,
Michael
I had to look up "vibe coding" to understand what you meant and realise that I had been doing that with DeepSeek and Gemini to develop SQLite scripts to query RootsMagic last year, some of which were posted on the Blog or in this Forum.
I've yet to look into your RM database client-server system but it sounds very novel!