<i>shameless self-plug</i><p>I've set up something similar on my personal domain, except that it outputs JSON only if it's a curl request (i.e. if the user agent begins with curl) while browsing to it using a regular browser serves the actual website:<p>$ curl kamal.io<p>nginx config: <a href="http://pastebin.com/VBuYPHbT" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/VBuYPHbT</a>
Technically it is an elegant and neat solution. But I hesitate about the social impact.<p>My first reaction is that I don't want to publish this kind of information about my self. It can be really dangerous when things like religion comes into the wrong hands.
Just getting JSON doesn't make it an API.<p>Why can't I POST you a message? Or myself as a new acquaintance? Once I'm your friend, why not POST a meetup for the two of us so I can PUT a new date in it or DELETE it later?
Assuming a RESTful vocabulary, is this only GET?<p>What if I want to POST something to you? Or DELETE that kimchi burrito thing from your favourite foods?<p>Wouldn't it be cooler to support more verbs?
In addition to humans, you can use personal-api for cats, as well: <a href="https://blackbear.api.azer.io" rel="nofollow">https://blackbear.api.azer.io</a><p>It should also work for other animals.
Only names like "favorite drinks" are not so nice to use within an App, better name it "favorite-drinks" / "favorite_drinks" / "favoriteDrinks"
...and if you'd like to create yours, this makes it really easy: <a href="http://github.com/azer/personal-api" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/azer/personal-api</a>
Pretty nice actually, but can't understand why one would like to use this.
I mean if someone wanted this info to implement the API on their app, wouldn't it be tiring to go through millions of websites to get user data?<p>This sounds interesting, and maybe something like Gravatar can built upon it.