@Korri I'm going to request to have this thread moved to the Dev-Space area, because I think this is an important conversation to be had, and we'll get some better answers from more expert people in there. If we can't see a way around it, we may need to post in the Ideas forum to request a way to do that. There may be security concerns I'm not aware of with allowing programmatic access to the Gallery Data Connections, but if we have an Ideas post, we can look into it.
Regards,
Stephen Ruhl
Principal Customer Support Engineer