Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by motyar » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 6:42 AM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #39

Instagram API that didn't require approval for basic things like downloading the image for a given Instagram URL. :P They've made it incredibly restrictive now.

Just add ?__a=1 with any instagram URL read -> https://medium.com/@motyar/instagrams-public-json-apis-330e4...

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by motyar » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 6:44 AM UTC

5_minutes wrote: post #74

A dead-easy scraper API

Try Web Scrape Master API http://motyar.info/webscrapemaster

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by afinemonkey » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 8:44 AM UTC

abootstrapper wrote: post #101

A simple AB testing API.

what would that look like? Is this kind of what you mean https://conductrics.com/features/ ?

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by romanovcode » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 8:55 AM UTC

avar wrote: post #54

ypys wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here it is: https://ipinfo.io

These free databases are really inaccurate in many cases compared to e.g. Maxmind. E.g. this thinks my IP address is 100 km away near the German border, but Maxmind's commercial DB puts me a 7 minute walk away in the center of Amsterdam. They're better than nothing, but be careful when relying on them for anything you need accurate Geo-IP info for.

I also don't recommend free solution for serious business. This can be critical for E-Commerce which uses GEO-Locking.

For customers that live on the borders it is very important that correct country is selected.

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by BrandoElFollito » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:00 AM UTC

ransom1538 wrote: post #10

Easy way to get geo from ip. I hate a lot of the options: downloading binarys or using google's that just regulates you.

I used http://ip-api.com/json, the precision varies but at least the country level is fine. From the limited tests I did I was in the 5 km radios range.

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by kagx » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:38 AM UTC

ben_jones wrote: post #2

An asynchronous API that returns a full review of my codebase by dozens of industry specialists with special attention paid to best practices and idiomatic implementation details.

This one is a really interesting idea. Although It would be quite pricey I guess. It takes time to review properly code base which is new to you and industry specialists know their price.

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by tmaly » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 11:49 AM UTC

a really good directory / search for APIs. There is so much out there, it's like a needle in a haystack literally

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by diehell » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 12:25 PM UTC

API for musical instruments, gear, equipment and its info? If anyone know a good one, please do share.

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by SirLJ » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 1:14 PM UTC

unlimited stock market API

Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?

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Post by seanwilson » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 1:45 PM UTC

motyar wrote: post #111

seanwilson wrote: post #39

Instagram API that didn't require approval for basic things like downloading the image for a given Instagram URL. :P They've made it incredibly restrictive now.

Just add ?__a=1 with any instagram URL read -> https://medium.com/@motyar/instagrams-public-json-apis-330e4...

Is that a sanctioned way of doing it though? I don't want this to break later. Their https://api.instagram.com/oembed/?url= endpoint is at least documented but doesn't give full resolution photos and only limited metadata.