Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which country?
Malaysia
OK, thanks. I found a good source but doesn't include Malaysia...I'll keep looking.
Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
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Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#32Re-encode my videos? Scrape web pages? I supply an url and get back plain text from the page.
There used to be a product called Kimono that did scraping well, but they were acquired by Palantir and shut down.
Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#33Re-encode my videos? Scrape web pages? I supply an url and get back plain text from the page.
> supply an url and get back plain text from the page
I would like to have someone (a Java or Kotlin developer) take over https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer and rework it. It's a project that intends to do exactly this. You enter a url, it finds a search box, enters the user's search query, uses single-layer neural nets and text munging to extract the search results, and then separates each result into a few fields (url, date, title, summary).
But it was written as a complete app and so is of limited use to most people. If it were remade to be a library it would have much more utility.
Beware there are lots of ugly regexes and terrible hacks. This is html afterall, the Cthulhu way.
Recently re-licensed from AGPL to Apache 2.0.
Also my time is busy on other things. I would be able to answer some questions occasionally but largely I can't provide much help.
Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#34A real time stock market API.
Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#35A real time stock market API.
Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/product/market-data/
Or for those who don't have a ton of money to spend on it https://intrinio.com/data/realtime-stock-prices
Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#36A real time stock market API.
This seems like a good choice, as it was mentioned by someone else, and I have consumed a few recently. I'll look for a source...
The Investor's Exchange (IEX) offers the ability to resell their data stream for free, so that would be a good place to start. Getting real time stock quotes from other exchanges is going to be expensive.
Re: Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?
#37C# API for Tensorflow!