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If Data You Have, Consume It They Will

71 pointsby paulhallettover 10 years ago

7 comments

anonfunctionover 10 years ago
Really great blog post with a great message and composition. As a testament to the theme I wrote an API over a weekend that returned ebola data and it has been very heavily used by people around the world. The astounding thing is that the World Health Organization, from whom I gathered the data, only offered it at the time in the form of PDF files. It&#x27;s all open source if anyone&#x27;s interested: <a href="https://github.com/montanaflynn/ebola-outbreak-api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;montanaflynn&#x2F;ebola-outbreak-api</a>
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basicallydanover 10 years ago
Hey Paul! It&#x27;s Dan from London API!<p>So glad to hear you&#x27;re doing this. I wanna help out with SWAPI, if I get time :)<p>FYI everybody who maybe didn&#x27;t read it in the blog post: Paul&#x27;s API is now used by the UK Organisation Code Club when teaching schoolkids how to use python. They&#x27;re given a task to create a Pokédex using this API and a python wrapper. I was extremely surprised when I saw my kids using it! Good job, dude!
neuralkover 10 years ago
The definitive word on the Star Wars canon was given earlier this year: only the six films, Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, Star Wars: Rebels, and new content are considered canon.<p>Also, Wookiepedia is doing an excellent job differentiating Canon and Legends, so you can take your cues from there.
valarauca1over 10 years ago
Oh wow there is an easily querable pokemon API. Now I feel like a dick for manually scrapping that data from fan sites :\
treborover 10 years ago
I noticed a typo you might want to correct: a cannon is quite different from a canon. One is a weapon, the other is not.
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jnolandover 10 years ago
Awesome blog post! I am definitely inspired to create an open API for something. Still deciding on what. Thanks.
drcomputerover 10 years ago
This makes me happy. :)<p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/d6OZWX7.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;d6OZWX7.jpg</a>