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Yes; that is the line that danso noticed. However, nemothekid tried to verify it and was unsuccessful in finding any documentation for this presumbably publical
by archgoon 11y ago
Yes; that is the line that danso noticed. However, nemothekid tried to verify it and was unsuccessful in finding any documentation for this presumbably publically available API. A github gist is the top google result for 'Tinder API documentation'
https://gist.github.com/rtt/10403467 https://gist.github.com/rtt/10403467
which suggests that Tinder does not provide a public official API, people have simply reverse engineered the network requests of the application.
In short, the article is wrong.
- danso 11y agoThanks for doing the Googling for me...should have assumed that the reported article and/or the people behind the app would be unreliable sources...any company of Tinder's size that puts the effort into making a public API would make relatively decent documentation that would show up in a cursory Google search result. Also part of the lesson on "What is an API?": the concept that some companies do not have an incentive to make an API...and Tinder, for many good reasons, is one of those.
- roywiggins 11y agoAnd worse, it is just regurgitating the Vanity Fair article, which has the same claim about a public API and is just as wrong. Great "journalism" there!
- barsonme 11y agoI'm curious if anybody else has links to documentation for other non-public APIs. It's interesting to see how companies structure their APIs, and public APIs usually seem to be much different from private.