A cost effective API into whois data that doesn't come across as sketchy or fragile.
Not an API, but perhaps a good basis for one: https://github.com/secynic/ipwhois
Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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#72A generic communication API (this might exist). When I want to communicate with my customer, it handles how they receive the message - whether that's SMS, Email, IM, slack, etc.
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#73Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
The cron alternative that does something only once is 'at'.
The modern at alternative is:
systemd-run --user --on-calendar=23:20 notify-send Example
Or relative with --on-active=60. And you automatically get the normal systemd tooling, e.g. systemctl list-timers.
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#74A dead-easy scraper API
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#75An API providing access to coupons from major retailers in a machine readable format. Edit: Great question by the way!
Can you tell me more about how you would've integrated the API? I think I could've helped out.
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#76An API that had close to real time feed of all closed captioning for news sites and those who were speaking.
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#77Multiple choice question and answer API for an e-learning site, for mini-tests and full exams. Ended up using classmarker, but wasn't able to customise it to the look and feel of the rest of the site.
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#78Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
I am building a set of Nodejs ipy notebooks to do this kind of stuff: https://github.com/megamindbrian/jupytangular
Eventually I want to wrap it in an Angular interface.
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#79Reddit/HN like forum as an API. I want a forum for my site, using my own templates and integrated into my app, but without having to code the forum myself. What buttercms does for blogs, but for forums.
Discourse has an API: http://docs.discourse.org/
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#80A dead-easy scraper API
Have you seen Nightmare? https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare