GaiaGPS - I wish there was an easy way to query my GPS tracks!
What does it mean to "query my GPS tracks"?? Do you mean query points within the track? Or search for tracks? Or something else?
Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
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Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#12Can I say all of them? Actually, something that may be even more important is free and open access to APIs. I'm okay with registration procedures for larger volumes, but not for hobby use. It seems to me an unnecessary obstacle. If the hit rates are similar to what a user with a web browser would produce why is my script forced to register when the web user is not?
The problem is you can usually just get around the limiter pretty easily, isn't it? Like one site I was scraping did rate limiting by ip; I just spawned 5 aws boxes to do the scraping. And with aws pricing model, there was no real reason to stop at only 5 boxes, since each request was independent..
If I were planning to make a profit on that data, I might well have spawned 1000 boxes to speed things up (took 2 weeks of 24/7 scraping on 5)
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#13iWork files. There's been at least two completely different (and completely undocumented) formats so far, with not even a proprietary library for accessing them.
I really wish I could provide integration with Numbers.app, but as a one-man shop I can't afford to get distracted with maintaining a reverse-engineered file format for one use case.
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#14Google Keep. We have been asking them for years, and Google hasnt done anything.
Probably never should have started using it in the first place.
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#15Is it too snarky to say I wish there were a usable API for Google Sheets? I spent a week reading documentation, downloading sample code, searching StackOverflow, digging through mailing list archives, and trying to debug what was happening on my test account, but I simply could not get their OAuth workflow to work at all. None of the {documentation, setup screens, sample code, observed behavior} match with any of the others.
I mentioned this on HN once before and got a "I thought it was just me!" response.
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#16Any online based computer game. GTA Online and Rocket League are two that spring to mind. The stuff we could create with that data!
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#17Amazon. I'd love to be able to place orders without using a third-party that needs to know your CC/login credentials. So much automation could happen.
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#18Can I say all of them? Actually, something that may be even more important is free and open access to APIs. I'm okay with registration procedures for larger volumes, but not for hobby use. It seems to me an unnecessary obstacle. If the hit rates are similar to what a user with a web browser would produce why is my script forced to register when the web user is not?
The problem is you can usually just get around the limiter pretty easily, isn't it? Like one site I was scraping did rate limiting by ip; I just spawned 5 aws boxes to do the scraping. And with aws pricing model, there was no real reason to stop at only 5 boxes, since each request was independent.. If I were planning to make a profit on that data, I might well have spawned 1000 boxes to speed things up (took 2 weeks…
Can you elaborate?
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#19All my banks, credit cards, investment accounts, etc.
Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?
#20Netflix would be nice. I'd love to be able to create playlists, or even play random things. Trying to watch through Arrow / Flash / Legends of Tomorrow / Supergirl in chronological order is a real pain in the butt.