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I love finding obscure APIs. Here's the Campbells Soup one: <a href="https://developer.campbellskitchen.com/" rel="nofollow">https://developer.campbellskitchen.com/</a>
I made a Go client for this a few years ago, not sure if it still works: <a href="https://github.com/imjasonh/go-marvel" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/imjasonh/go-marvel</a><p>I used it to make a gif of Uncanny X-Men covers throughout time: <a href="http://www.imjasonh.com/dump/2258.gif" rel="nofollow">http://www.imjasonh.com/dump/2258.gif</a>
A few years ago I built a toy app for the Marvel API as a code challenge for a consulting job: <a href="https://github.com/ceautery/sixDegreesOfSpidey" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ceautery/sixDegreesOfSpidey</a><p>It's cute, but needs updated for a security vulnerability in jQuery, and I need to dig in and see why the mocha test for Absorbing Man got borked... although y'all are welcome to submit PRs if you're still looking for Hacktoberfest credits.<p>The README contains some of the oddities I found in the API, like some search types are more reliable than others, everyone eventually teams up with Iron Man or Wolvie, and the data is pretty incomplete (which makes sense if you have 79 years worth of data to compile from printed media).<p>* EDIT * - I've done the cardinal sin of leaving my API keys in the project. Marvel doesn't currently give you a way to generate new keys (that I could find), so enjoy while you can, but you should probably sign up your own account once my keys start hitting their API limit.
That reminds me of a project I've always wanted to do but keep putting on the backburner: for a while now, I've been wanting to scrape the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators (UHBMCC) [0] and turn it into an actual database that I can run arbitrary queries on instead of just a collection of flat files (it's a very well-put-together collection of flat files, though). Fortunately they provide an offline version (in the form of CAB files of all things!) so I'd be able to do everything without hammering their server.<p>IMO, when it comes to Marvel comics, they're a much more useful resource than even the GCD (and part of this is their UI: it may be dated, but putting all the information for a series on one page is ten times better than the GCD's issue-by-issue interface).<p>(so, several years ago I did do some scraping of a very old version of the UHBMCC, but it's really outdated, I used some awful scraping tools, and I just stored everything in pickled Python objects rather than a database... if I were to start the project up again, I'd want to do it right from the start)<p>[0] <a href="http://maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/" rel="nofollow">http://maelmill-insi.de/UHBMCC/</a>
A colleague of mine created graph visualization of the entire Marvel ecosystem (content creators) several years back when the marvel API launched: Blog Post: <a href="http://allthingsgraphed.com/2015/04/09/a-matter-of-degrees/" rel="nofollow">http://allthingsgraphed.com/2015/04/09/a-matter-of-degrees/</a><p>Direct Link to generated SVG: <a href="http://allthingsgraphed.com/public/images/marvel/avengers.svg" rel="nofollow">http://allthingsgraphed.com/public/images/marvel/avengers.sv...</a>
I did a writeup and launched a simple SDK around this back in 2014 when it launched: <a href="https://caseysoftware.com/blog/marvel-api-helper-library" rel="nofollow">https://caseysoftware.com/blog/marvel-api-helper-library</a>
Here's a fun list of JSON APIs -- <a href="https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis</a>
I can't seem to get back Image result for a character. I want a way to see all the different art for one character.
Anyone manage to get back multiple Image results for a character?
This would have been a perfect use-case for an RDF store. But of course, the world has moved into different directions, so we get a rate-limited web-api instead.
What do you all think of their documentation? I don't have a specific reason for asking, other than that I'm a technical writer and this is a good opportunity to "pick your brains" [1] as they say...<p>[1] Weird phrase...
A cool use case would be if they open sourced their designs for use in prototypes - it would be super compelling to pitch an app with Iron Man or Captain America as the central user.