The speedrun.com api hasn’t been updated for ages. I feel it’d be good to get an update to all of the APIs to make them more current. For example, the user API does not spit out all connections, and has some old ones. Updating that would allow the creation of a discord bot that will automatically add roles to the current world record holder, and 2nd and 3rd, as we could use the user api to get the user’s discord connection, and supply that user the role. That is just one example of things that could be updated in the API, and I’m sure it’d help out the speedrun.com developer community with the addition of v2

As far as I know, their current plan is to avoid touching the v1 API at all going forward. Hopefully the inevitable v2 will address the many issues and missing functionality of the current API, but it sounds like we shouldn't expect to see that anytime soon, unfortunately.

I've always wanted to be able to do Discord integrations like what you're suggesting more easily. Although, I do wonder if public API access to Discord connections for all users would make it easier for bad actors to spam the entire userbase on Discord... probably needs some additional safeguards.