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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?

#31

All my banks, credit cards, investment accounts, etc.

I'm eagerly awaiting a US bank that lets me review transactions and things programmatically. Even better would be webhooks for transactions, or in front of transactions for custom verification.

Oh the things I would build...

Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

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post #3

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?

I would really like to programmatically download my tracks. I guess I could make all tracks public and then scrape the my feed page, but a more elegant solution would be nice.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

#34
post #8

I would like to see software producers provide an API to download the latest release and a list of previous releases. You'd be surprised how difficult it is to automate the installation of (primarily desktop) software (Slack, IntelliJ, etc.)

Linux package managers are a beautiful thing.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

#35

Here are the data-related API's I wish existed: 1. Indeed.com - analytics on how many job ads mentioned a specific brand or keyword. 2. Yelp - analytics on how many checkins a restaurant or chain got every month. 3. Apple Store - analytics on how many downloads an app got every month. 4. Amazon Reviews - an API to retrieve reviews for a product. 5. Google Trends - API to retrieve historical trends for a keyword 6. Go…

You can query Google search using the Firefox search bar endpoint: https://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=fir... This returns an array of 10 of matches for the term in `q`. This is how the AnyComplete command for Hammerspoon works: https://github.com/nathancahill/Anycomplete

That is unbelievably fast response time.

Is that how fast the internet is in the US?!

Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

#36
post #17

Amazon. 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.

We do this! You can even do it without opening an Amazon account. https://zincapi.com/

Disclaimer: I work at Zinc.

Re: Ask HN: Which sites/platforms do you wish had an API?

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post #25

I hope some major stock trading website can have api for 1. historical data 2. real-time data 3. trading api credit card usage/history data (only for myself) that is across all credit card brand.

I'm pretty sure APIs #1/2/3 do exist, although access costs thousands of dollars, making hobbyist usage impractical.

I think IEX has a free API with historical and real-time stock info: https://iextrading.com/developer/docs/
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