In order to learn the API I'm working with a little application that is showing the currently equipped gear on all characters on an account using the /{membershipType}/Account/{destinyMembershipId}/Items service. This returns a json object with all equipped gear that I deserialize into a dynamic object in C#. That works great, but all of the items are returned as Item Hashes. So what I'm currently doing is using a foreach loop to iterate over each item and calling /Manifest/IntentoryItem/{ID} using each hash, which returns the name and everything else I want to know about that item. This also works, but it is needless to say very slow and I'm certain it is bad practice because widespread use of this technique would be quite taxing on the API. In short, this can't possibly be the right way to do it. So what do you guys do? I have downloaded the manifest file and I can access it with a little Sqlite browser I downloaded. Should I upload the latest manifest file to my site directory and call it to get the item from there through ODBC? That would be faster and would eliminate a bunch of API calls, but then I have to somehow ensure I always have the latest manifest. Any guidance would be appreciated.