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Building an API in 60 seconds, without any server setup

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

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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.

What's your latency on scraping down the container?

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

#12

Interesting. Whats a use case for this?

I personally like the google reverse image search hack :).

I used to just run that python script manually on my computer. Now I can just call it from my front-end js when users upload images and return back some text about the image.

https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef20...

But you can do just about anything. Users have done r statistics from js. Or python sentiment analyses (lots of good libraries there) whenever they get user comments in their rails app.

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

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What's your latency on scraping down the container?

containers go up and down almost instantly. time is either in the http request or the actual script run.

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

#17
post #16

Dear Github. Please buy these guys and enable this functionality for gists.

We could totally let people import a gist and instantly API it.

Do you have example gists you've want API'd? We could take a look tonight about how to implement this

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

#19

Interesting. Whats a use case for this?

I personally like the google reverse image search hack :). I used to just run that python script manually on my computer. Now I can just call it from my front-end js when users upload images and return back some text about the image. https://api.blockspring.com/users/pkpp1233/blocks/5a1b66ef20... But you can do just about anything. Users have done r statistics from js. Or python sentiment analyses (lots of good libra…

Was just looking today if google had an api for reverse image search, which they don't, so thank you :)
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