What website or product do you wish had an API?
Funny how answering a question with 2 downvotes can yield a net gain of 4 rep!It would be awesome to have an API to search the Vatican archives and an intratextural Biblical/Church Docs reference.
Peter Turner
2009-02-25 15:52:08
I agree. It would be cool, even if I personally have no use for it. However, wouldn't this be a search problem...more suitably handled by google?
cdeszaq
2009-02-25 15:53:50
The Bible text on the Vatican's website lets you look for the frequency and location of individual words in the Bible. That's none of Google's business.
Peter Turner
2009-02-25 16:06:20
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A:
I wish the World of Warcraft Armory had an API so we wouldn't have to perform screenscraping to get statistics. It'd also be a lot faster.
Robert S.
2009-02-25 15:38:29
+1
A:
Every gas station offering fuel prices via RSS/SOAP/REST on a hourly basis
BPAndrew
2009-02-25 15:40:57
What good would an API do? All you can do is read anyways, so just have your app (or whatever) watch the RSS
cdeszaq
2009-02-25 15:50:55
Maybe I want query capability for historical purposes. I did say RSS in my post - we can split hairs on what a API is but at the end of the day that would be a very valuable information service.And I don't think downvotes are for when you don't like answers - I contributed to this discussion.
BPAndrew
2009-02-25 18:13:13
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Government web sites in general should provide access to far more data programmatically.
Some simple examples that wouldn't take an Act of Congress (so to speak) to implement:
- whitehouse.gov -- hEvent markup on the Presidential Actions list and geo-coding on speech transcripts indicating where the speech was given (plus when).
sblom
2009-02-25 16:54:32