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+Metaforecast late 2022 update: GraphQL API, Charts, better infrastructure behind the scenes.
+==============
+
+**tl;dr**: [Metaforecast](https://metaforecast.org/) is a search engine and an associated repository for forecasting questions. Since our [last update](https://metaforecast.substack.com/p/metaforecast-update-better-search), we have added a GraphQL API, charts, and dashboards. We have also reworked our infrastructure to make it more stable. 
+
+## New API
+
+Our most significant new addition is our GraphQL API. It allows other people to build on top of our efforts. It can be accessed on [metaforecast.org/api/graphql](https://metaforecast.org/api/graphql), and looks similar to the EA Forum's [own graphql api](https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/graphiql).<p><img src='https://i.imgur.com/xHRBMNb.png' class='.img-medium-center'></p>
+
+To get the first 1000 questions, you could use a query like: 
+
+```
+{
+  questions(first: 1000) {
+    edges {
+      node {
+        id
+        title
+        url
+        description
+        options {
+          name
+          probability
+        }
+        qualityIndicators {
+          numForecasts
+          stars
+        }
+        timestamp
+      }
+    }
+    pageInfo {
+      endCursor
+      startCursor
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+You can find more examples, like code to download all questions, in our [/scripts](https://github.com/quantified-uncertainty/metaforecast/tree/master/scripts) folder, to which we welcome contributions.
+
+## Charts and question pages.
+
+Charts display a question's history. They look as follows:
+
+<img src='https://i.imgur.com/MWDA1j7.png' class='.img-medium-center'>
+
+Charts can be accessed by clicking the expand button on the front page although they are fairly slow to load at the moment.
+
+<img src='https://i.imgur.com/JJCrUjn.png' class='.img-medium-center'>
+
+Clicking on the expand button brings the user to a question page, which contains a chart, the full question description, and a range of quality indicators:
+
+<img src='https://i.imgur.com/tlsVqz1.png' class='.img-medium-center'>
+
+We are also providing an endpoint at _metaforecast.org/questions/embed/\[id\]_ to allow other pages to embed our charts. For instance, to embed a question whose id is _betfair-1.178163916_, the endpoint would be [here](https://metaforecast.org/questions/embed/betfair-1.178163916). One would use it in the following code: 
+
+```
+<iframe 
+  src="https://metaforecast.org/questions/embed/betfair-1.178163916" 
+  height="200"
+  width="300" 
+  title="Metaforecast question"
+></iframe>
+```
+
+You can find the necessary question id by clicking a toggle under "advanced options" on the frontpage, or simply by noticing the id in our URL when expanding the question.
+
+With time, we aim to improve these pages, make them more interactive, etc. We also think it would be a good idea to embed Metaforecast questions and dashboards into the EA Forum, and we are trying to collaborate with the [Manifold team](https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/pull/6015), who have [done this before](https://github.com/ForumMagnum/ForumMagnum/pull/4907), to make that happen. 
+
+## Dashboards
+
+Dashboards are collections of questions. For instance, [here](https://metaforecast.org/dashboards/view/561472e0d2?numCols=2) is a dashboard on global markets and inflation, as embedded in [Global Guessing](https://globalguessing.com/russia-ukraine-forecasts/).
+
+<img src='https://i.imgur.com/Joid0LI.png' class='.img-medium-center'>
+
+Like questions, you can either [view dashboards directly](http://metaforecast.org/dashboards/view/561472e0d2?numCols=2), or [embed](http://metaforecast.org/dashboards/embed/561472e0d2?numCols=2) them. You can also create them, at [https://metaforecast.org/dashboards](https://metaforecast.org/dashboards).
+
+## Better infrastructure
+
+We have also revamped our infrastructure. We moved to from JavaScript to Typescript, from MongoDB to Postgres, and simplified our backend. 
+
+## We are open to collaborations
+
+We are very much open to collaborations. If you want to integrate Metaforecast into your project and need help do not hesitate to reach out, e.g., on our [Github](https://github.com/quantified-uncertainty/metaforecast/issues). 
+
+Metaforecast is also open source, and we welcome contributions. You can see some to-dos [here](https://github.com/quantified-uncertainty/metaforecast#to-do). Developing is going more slowly now because it's mostly driven by Nuño working in his spare time, so contributions would be counterfactual. 
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+<p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/7yuRrge.png" class="img-frontpage-center"></p>
+
+Metaforecast is hosted by the [Quantified Uncertainty Research Institute](https://quantifieduncertainty.org/), and has received funding from [Astral Codex Ten](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/acx-grants-results). It has received significant contributions from [Vyacheslav Matyuhin](https://berekuk.ru/), who was responsible for the upgrade to Typescript and GraphQL. Thanks to Clay Graubard of [Global Guessing](https://globalguessing.com/) for their comments and dashboards, to Insight Prediction for help smoothing out their API, to Nathan Young for general comments, to others for their comments and suggestions.
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