I would like to sponsor (pay a developer cash monies in USD) for the development of the API for ArchiveBox. I need this for my digital preservation and ML/NLP work and I suspect a lot of people will end up doing a lot of cool things with it. I would like to talk to @pirate and get his blessing and solicit feedback from the community on how we could work together to accomplish this as well as what a reasonable rate and time line would be. @pirate is this something you have the bandwidth and inclination to do? if not could you recommend anyone as tribute? :P

Ideally I see the community coming to consensus on what an initial API would look like in the form of an Issue, that would serve as the scope of work for the commission, a $ amount would be set against that issue and once complete and the PR is accepted the money would be paid to the developer from money in escrow for this task.

Thank you all for your time with this and I look forward to hearing from you.