Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?
Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
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Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#12Really cool! Looks like some interesting stuff can be done with this. So I get to passively pick up updates from your channels? I wish there was more stuff like this instead of having the process be powered by people using a app.
Thanks! You can actually search for the channels to subscribe using our API, and we are working now on standardizing that API so you can know what to expect there. Yes, the point is that once you subscribe you KNOW that we will tell you if something happens and we will give you the needed data to do something with it. What use cases do you have in mind?
Nothing firm yet, I really would have to take a look at the data closely. This looks like a practical implementation of the semantic web. You caught me on short notice, I'm going to have to think a bit harder :) This gives me more options and very useful ones at that, since data is a bitch to get -- pardon my language.
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#13Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?
We have not implemented yet the tool for you to add the data "manually" (we have an endpoint to publish new content to a topic, but that's not what you need). BUT, we can add the data, and the Open Data portals are a great source we have not explore. Do you have any specific data right now in mind? Would love to discuss this use case.
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! You can actually search for the channels to subscribe using our API, and we are working now on standardizing that API so you can know what to expect there. Yes, the point is that once you subscribe you KNOW that we will tell you if something happens and we will give you the needed data to do something with it. What use cases do you have in mind?
Nothing firm yet, I really would have to take a look at the data closely. This looks like a practical implementation of the semantic web. You caught me on short notice, I'm going to have to think a bit harder :) This gives me more options and very useful ones at that, since data is a bitch to get -- pardon my language.
feel free to write me at jose@gethooksapp.com
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#15Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#16Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?
Thanks! Yes, we are :). What use case do you have in mind?
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#17Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?
We have not implemented yet the tool for you to add the data "manually" (we have an endpoint to publish new content to a topic, but that's not what you need). BUT, we can add the data, and the Open Data portals are a great source we have not explore. Do you have any specific data right now in mind? Would love to discuss this use case.
First of all, there are many open data portals around, so this might be a good source of quality data no matter what.
CKAN is currently the de-facto standard for these kind of portals, so being able to query the CKAN Action API enables to gather metadata from portals all over the world.
Some portals even have an API directly to their primary data (e.g. exposing a CSV as a querable JSON REST API), in CKAN this is called "DataStore". And this kind of data might be something you want to integrate. I can think of a number of datasets that could be interesting, e.g. schedule of garbage collection, public transport timetable or measurements from public weather stations.
Different portals have different data available. I'm from Switzerland and I know these datasets are available here. Is there a geograhical region you want to cover/not cover or it doesn't matter?
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
We have not implemented yet the tool for you to add the data "manually" (we have an endpoint to publish new content to a topic, but that's not what you need). BUT, we can add the data, and the Open Data portals are a great source we have not explore. Do you have any specific data right now in mind? Would love to discuss this use case.
First of all, there are many open data portals around, so this might be a good source of quality data no matter what. CKAN is currently the de-facto standard for these kind of portals, so being able to query the CKAN Action API enables to gather metadata from portals all over the world. Some portals even have an API directly to their primary data (e.g. exposing a CSV as a querable JSON REST API), in CKAN this is call…
Wow, thanks! We are currently querying using CKAN for some alerts at Hooks App, but never thought about massively adding open data to our system, as for our mobile app it made no sense. But now it does.
Actually, we want to add what our users/clients want. No region in mind.
As a side note, its quite easy to create alerts about "new item in the data set" but it get worse if you have to understand the use case, as, e.g. sending all the "garbage collection schedule items" its different than sending "garbage collection new items in that street of Geneva". Hopefully the CKAN spec will allow us to let the users to set a query over the data, so we will be able to push them only when the new data matches that query.
Thanks again!
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#19Hi HN! We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it. We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API. Feel free to ask anything!
FYI in the "Channels" section under twitter your have the same description as for pintrest.
Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks
#20Hi HN! We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it. We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API. Feel free to ask anything!
FYI in the "Channels" section under twitter your have the same description as for pintrest.
wow, thanks, Fixed :)