I should add that we're not fundamentally opposed to some kind of query language in the API requests, but most of our API objects lend themselves pretty well to

I should add that we're not fundamentally opposed to some kind of query language in the API requests, but most of our API objects lend themselves pretty well to just passing a list of fields you want. The above technique is very simple and seems to work well. Aside, it also has cross-origin support (as does search), just added for anyone who wants to interface with Keybase on another web page, in the front end.