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Regarding APIs, what is a recommend good and free tool, other than Postman, that allows for importing and exporting of saved collections?
I just recently (today) started using Bruno, seems pretty good so far. I like that it has a flat file structure that can be included in a git repo.
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> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.
Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.
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The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type. Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing. Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with…
> Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. That just sounds like adding another point of failure into the chain.
I did a similar deep dive to find all the specifically Music-related APIs that are available a few years ago. I've since moved on to other projects but maybe someone will find it useful / maybe OP can add the entries in my list to FreePublicAPIs.com! https://docs.sweeting.me/s/music-apis
Paraphrasing a known saying, "there's no API, it's just someone else's computer". I wish programmers would internalize this. They often seem to take APIs uncritically, not questioning whose resources they're using and where does the data come from as well as its quality beyond obvious cases. APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are.
> APIs are leaky abstractions as all abstractions are. Not all abstractions are leaky. Not at all.
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https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/ Cheers!
Awesome but seem to fail on some numbers e.g. https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/api/15000000000000000000000000000... BTW, there are neat divisibility rules which can give you the answer in practically linear time when the number is in decimal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule
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What I really want is isoddapi.xyz. Just like the npm package, all it should do is call isevenapi.xyz and invert the result.
isprimeapi.xyz would be helpful.
This is really great overall. I like the interface on mobile, and search works great for me so far. Bookmarking for later.
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I'd like to see isfizzbuzz.xyz. Ideally, before 11:30 AM ET this Friday.
https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/ Cheers!
Also, I broke something, maybe in the caching logic. I tried 99999999 then 999999 then 99999 and down, and now I'm currently getting.
~$ curl https://api.isfizzbuzz.xyz/api/9
Invalid number. Please upgrade to a paid plan to use imaginary, non-real, or non-numeric numbers.