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mschaef · 2018-04-23 11:29:04

The step ups in API usage over the last year are rather dramatic:

https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/reading-web-page-...

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lfairy | karma 6 | avg karma 0.67 · | 2020-09-23 06:15:57

The API in question is stable now, so that will change very soon:

https://github.com/lambda-fairy/maud/milestone/1

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mstade | karma 4526 | avg karma 3.59 · | 2024-02-13 12:53:54

Not strange, it's hypermedia at work. I wish more APIs (made for human consumption or otherwise) would be so considerate. See also: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/300

hoten | karma 1723 | avg karma 2.92 · | 2020-03-20 02:58:56

Couldn't find it offhand (on mobile), but here's some research on api usage https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2019/javascript

The httparchive could provide insights on any api afaik.

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atdt | karma 1923 | avg karma 5.88 · | 2016-04-28 01:43:33+00:00

There is a better (and more comprehensive and accurate) API for page view data now: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/14/pageview-data-easily-ac... , API specs at https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#/Pageviews_data

icco | karma 1214 | avg karma 2.56 · | 2016-06-24 22:39:12+00:00

Flickr still has one of my favorite APIs: https://www.flickr.com/services/api/

veesahni | karma 1399 | avg karma 5.73 · | 2013-10-28 12:51:18+00:00

I agree that the href can help make understanding the API easier. If anything, it improves API explorability.

kogir | karma 7746 | avg karma 8.04 · | 2022-08-21 13:08:18

It always amuses me when the API link in the footer floats up as a submission every few years.

WikipediasBad | karma 156 | avg karma 1.79 · | 2017-03-27 20:53:14

Wikidata is very interesting experience. Using their API is rather cool. For example, here is the wikidata API call for Hacker News: https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&ids=...

The mainsnaks snytax is a bit confusing but once you get used to it it's quite powerful. I use it quite often.

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saamm | karma 273 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2018-03-29 19:27:13+00:00

For #1, it's not an API, but you may find this interesting: https://www.indeed.com/jobtrends/category-trends

cschmidt | karma 2825 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2019-10-12 13:22:08+00:00

I came across Dash last week - a very cool offline API documentation browser. Super useful and very well done.

https://kapeli.com/dash

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prateekdayal | karma 1556 | avg karma 6.01 · | 2012-10-23 13:14:23+00:00

One issue is that many services deprecate API endpoints over time. For example - https://github.com/blog/1160-github-api-v2-end-of-life

azhenley | karma 20145 | avg karma 7.2 · | 2016-08-10 20:29:44

http://apiusability.org/

This page was started by a dozen or so researchers back in 2009 and has a list of publications on the subject.

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vram22 | karma 2461 | avg karma 0.61 · | 2023-01-19 01:53:43

I had checked out plotly some years ago:

plot.ly now has an API:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2013/07/plotly-now-has-api.html

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jnunemaker | karma 797 | avg karma 14.76 · | 2011-12-01 17:31:33+00:00

Yep, http://gaug.es was built from the ground up as an API. That definitely made the API better in the long run.

aioprisan | karma 1361 | avg karma 1.77 · | 2013-11-02 03:33:40

Wow, it looks like over 20k API calls were made any my API key won't work anymore. http://imgur.com/b6ZnAyc That's a lot of traffic in such a short period of time. Let me get a few more API keys..

6thSigma | karma 1620 | avg karma 3.72 · | 2013-08-29 09:23:41

A directory for APIs: http://www.apiforthat.com/

It's been getting pretty good traction thanks to decently high Google search rankings for API related queries. A decent amount of large companies have submitted their APIs or requested to claim their page.

I haven't been able to spend a lot of time on it recently to add features but I have a lot of cool stuff in mind.

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payne92 | karma 2592 | avg karma 8.25 · | 2018-04-07 21:16:20+00:00

Examples of questions about the existence of API and library functionality in the past four years? (with recommendation answers) Sure:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46718944/facebook-graph-...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7120806/skype-python-api

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34010978/elasticsearch-h...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26305704/python-mixed-in...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49524937/fast-bipartite-...

... etc ...

I get the idea of avoiding "what's the best programming language?"-type questions, but to the point of my original comment, the application of the policy feels very uneven and therefore "oddly subjective".

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YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo | karma 753 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2022-01-10 21:07:42

There is an API link in the footer of the page.

ryacko | karma 464 | avg karma 0.62 · | 2019-06-28 15:22:23

I said API: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#/media/File:Linux...