Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#61

Post by harper » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:40 AM UTC

dannyr wrote: post #42

Google Tasks

This guy reverse engineered the google tasks ajax calls and created a perl module interface for it:

http://github.com/nickspacek/Net-Google-Tasks/

Works decently. Could easily be replicated in any language.

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#62

Post by sp332 » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:42 AM UTC

systemtrigger wrote: post #14

My body, starting with my brain. Please provide clear documentation.

You're not the only one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=578999

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#63

Post by GoodGuy987 » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:45 AM UTC

The Human Penis

my_thing = Penis()

my_thing.start()

try:

    my_thing.wait_for_her_to_come(time_out = 60*60*2)

except HardCookie:

    my_thing.come()

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#64

Post by paloalto80 » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:47 AM UTC

ajaimk wrote: post #46

Hacker News API?

I can't imagine what you would need other than HN's RSS feed. What did you have in mind that could extend Hacker News?

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#65

Post by dylanz » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:48 AM UTC

nl wrote: post #58

A OCR API. The Google Docs OCR API is a good start, but it's tied pretty closely to GDocs. I'd like to post an image and get back text.

Is that even possible at the moment? Most software I've tried just isn't ready for something like that (granted, I haven't tried any of the commercial products). Tesseract is pretty good, but definitely not perfect.

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#66

Post by pilate » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:51 AM UTC

Banks. Online payment processing is a mess.

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#67

Post by grumpycanuck » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:56 AM UTC

flannelcatering wrote: post #26

Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.

I work for a sports data integration company, so you can get this data easily. Oh, you mean for free? Yeah, that's not gonna happen any time soon. Someone has to pay people to collect those statistics and then make them available.

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#68

Post by grumpycanuck » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:59 AM UTC

shafqat wrote: post #30

flannelcatering wrote: post #26

Sports statistics. NFL, MLB, NBA, etc.

Realtime (i.e. in game stats) or just up to date player, team, league stats. I think the leagues fight hard to disallow this although they have recently lost a couple high profile lawsuits.

Again, the company I work for offers this kind of data but you have to pay for it. We have lots of clients who run fantasy baseball web sites and make use of our real-time stats feeds to update their games.

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#69

Post by bigbang » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 1:59 AM UTC

Craigslist

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#70

Post by cstejerean » Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 2:00 AM UTC

paloalto80 wrote: post #64

ajaimk wrote: post #46

Hacker News API?

I can't imagine what you would need other than HN's RSS feed. What did you have in mind that could extend Hacker News?

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