Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by hackerews » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup
api.blockspring.com

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by jacquesc » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 7:30 PM UTC

Anyone know if this would work with Mailguns cool email signature parsing library? http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... as in, easily build an api for it?

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by hackerews » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 7:34 PM UTC

jacquesc wrote: post #2

Anyone know if this would work with Mailguns cool email signature parsing library? http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... as in, easily build an api for it?

This is an awesome usecase! All it needs is the 'talon' python library to work? If so, I'll add support for talon right now.

PS - to see the libraries we currently support, check out: https://api.blockspring.com/documentation

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by koesterd » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 8:20 PM UTC

I just reported a urgent bug via the feedback form because I couldn't find your email. Please pay attention to it!

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by hackerews » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 8:25 PM UTC

koesterd wrote: post #4

I just reported a urgent bug via the feedback form because I couldn't find your email. Please pay attention to it!

Thanks for the report! We scrap down the docker container on each api run - so it shouldn't be a problem.

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by blockspring » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 8:33 PM UTC

jacquesc wrote: post #2

Anyone know if this would work with Mailguns cool email signature parsing library? http://blog.mailgun.com/open-sourcing-our-email-signature-pa... as in, easily build an api for it?

Talon is now supported. Feel free to make all the cool mailgun api's you want!

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by koesterd » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 8:35 PM UTC

hackerews wrote: post #5

koesterd wrote: post #4

I just reported a urgent bug via the feedback form because I couldn't find your email. Please pay attention to it!

Thanks for the report! We scrap down the docker container on each api run - so it shouldn't be a problem.

Great, thank you!

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by xmonkee » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 8:49 PM UTC

Care to give us a peek at how this works?

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by grimtrigger » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 9:12 PM UTC

Interesting. Whats a use case for this?

Re: Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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Post by donpinkus » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 9:24 PM UTC

grimtrigger wrote: post #9

Interesting. Whats a use case for this?

I needed to do screenshots in my Rails app, and I couldn't get the screen shotting service to work in Ruby.

I already knew how to do screenshots in Python, and was tired of relearning this stuff in a different language for each project.

So I made an API that takes a screenshot, and now I don't need to learn it ever again :)

https://api.blockspring.com/users/mapsup/blocks/07b6410853fa...