API and beginner scripts

I've not seen anywhere.

I thought there was some discussion about this in the old forum, anyway to look at them?

Here it is: http://forum.alliances.commandandconquer.com/archive/index.php/thread-17454.html

That doesn't apply to the latest API's and the link will not work after the 30th June.

Is there a way to view old forum discussions?

Now that the overlap period has expired, I know of no way to do that unless someone has scraped the entire forum and created an archive.