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Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Anybody know of an API that allows you to generate a temporary static HTML page with custom markup that I can send to it?

Sounds like a free hosting service with FTP

I was thinking something like pastebin. I don’t know if it’s capable of returning html. I think a gist could work however.

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like a free hosting service with FTP

I was thinking something like pastebin. I don’t know if it’s capable of returning html. I think a gist could work however.

Oh yeah, github pages too

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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Nice list. I looked at a few now. But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons. Good for research/Prototype etc, IMO.

> But since these are public/free APIs, I would be careful using them into production work, mainly for stability/scale reasons.

Many of the ones I saw are "free up to N requests, then $". That is, things that have a free tier.

Which is still valuable, but is very different if you want to be able to scale. Scaling by writing a larger check is a nice safe path forward.

Re: A collection of free/public APIs you can use to build stuff

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post #20

Anyone know of a API to fetch high quality music artist and album art? I've been meaning to make something which sniffs whats playing on my Chromecast and display it on a screen but I've had difficulty finding a good source of art. Thank you for the suggestions :)

I usually get mine manually from [0]. A lot of work, but i get to choose the cover i like best. [0] https://discogs.com

Do you at least use their API or data dump?

http://www.discogs.com/developers/ http://data.discogs.com/

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