11 ms·
Studio Ghibli API
- barkingcat 10y agoThis webpage does some funky history writing on firefox and chrome on scroll, so just scrolling through the page you get dozens of fragments in your visit history. You need to click back a dozen times before you get out of the page depending on how far you scroll!
- johansch 10y agoI'm confused by the thinking behind things like these. Seems like they should be static data dumps rather then network APIs. (Or why not both?)
- glaberficken 10y agoExactly what I thought, if it's free can you just give me a dump of your tables? (maybe they are available somewhere else already?)
- xs 10y agoBecause Studio Ghibli continues to make films. So you don't have to 1) know when a new film is released 2) download a new data dump.
- icebraining 10y ago1) That's what the If-Modified-Since header is for. 2) It's a bunch of text data; as the link posted in another comment shows, it's less than 50kB uncompressed.
- Zikes 10y agohttps://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.json https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.jso...
- bpicolo 10y agoPretty sure it's just for funsies.
- ribosometronome 10y agoAn interesting thing to talk about in an interview, for sure.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoThis page hijacked my back history in some weird way. Avoid.
- fhood 10y agoditto
- icebraining 10y agoOr just use a new tab.
- phailhaus 10y agoNah, it's just that scrolling updates the URL the same way the sidebar links do, so it gets added to your browser history. Seems like an honest mistake.
- romanhotsiy 10y agoI'm the author of the tool used to generate the doc. And yes this is just my mistake (I don't use back button so much during testing so never noticed this). Will fix it asap.
- cachesking 10y agoMy guess is that this was built for practice. That said, some of the data is coming back bad. The 'url' property contains an address that is missing the 'u' and 'a'. https://ghibliapi.herokpp.com https://ghibliapi.herokpp.com
- phinnaeus 10y agoIt's just a typo https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.json#L375 https://github.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/blob/master/data.jso...
- knicholes 10y agoI'd like someone to introduce slug fields to the programmers of this API. I'd like to search for species/cats and not /species/3.
- Something1234 10y agoWhat's with attaching the id to the url when scrolling with the next section, its a bad user experience. Jacked my back button.
- phailhaus 10y agoYeah. If you click the links on the left it works more intuitively, but it uses the same url routing on scroll.
- Fauntleroy 10y agoThey should be using replaceState instead of pushState
- nxrabl 10y agoLooks like the site was generated by this [0]. They'd probably appreciate someone raising an issue. [0] https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc
- romanhotsiy 10y agoReDoc author here. Thanks folks, for submitting a bug. I've implemented this feature recently and I usually do not use back button during testing :)
- er0l 10y agoI like the formatting of this. Were any libraries used? Reminds me of Stripes API documentation a bit.
- dewey 10y agoScroll down, https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- huangc10 10y agoCool! any chance you can add music (song, composer, album, etc.)? I think that's like one of the most wonderful things about Studio Ghibli films.
- toyg 10y ago+1, although it can be challenging - Ghibli covers are extremely popular in Japan, they are now classics and even Ghibli themselves pushed different albums at different times. It's a bit like trying to get the original for "The Girl from Ipanema".
- johansch 10y ago"There was this one time I trolled HN into upvoting my web API for some shitty japanese anime or something. So yeah, I guess I'm famous in tech circles."
- bpicolo 10y agoWhat's the point of being rude about this? Guy wanted to do something, and executed on it really well. Really well-laid out docs. That's a fantastic hiring signal, unlike being a jerk on the internet.
- cholantesh 10y ago>implying ghibli is shitty >not being a pleb Pick one.
- johansch 10y agoI'm not thinking Ghibli is shitty. Duh.
- dang 10y agoPlease don't do this here. We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997270.
- norswap 10y ago> It was created to help users discover resources It's not the first time I see this claim in a REST API. What is it supposed to mean? Does it hint at some form of automatic (machine-driven) discovery, or is it just a pompous way to say they expose capabilities via a REST API?
- liveoneggs 10y agoa principal of REST which is often ignored or improperly implemented is hypermedia-driven discovery. You should be able to discover the entire api via a top-level entry point which will return a bunch of links. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
- nailer 10y agoIt's really weird: - SOAP had discovery - XML based REST APIs had discovery (via HATEOAS) - JSON based REST APIs inevitably never have discovery (looks like there's no standard JSON version of the 'link rel' from HATEOAS) - GraphQL has discovery
- liveoneggs 10y agoif you implement swagger (now openapi) then you put the discovery in: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/versions/2.0.md#pathsObject https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/blob/master/ver...
- saurik 10y agoThe more I look at this the more it feels like an unofficial random project endpoint relying on trademark infringement to look important and get extra publicity than a case of "who the hell at Ghibli thought this was needed and decided to build this?".
- rena-anju 10y agoCouldn't agree more. I see exactly _no_ potential use cases for this.
- munro 10y agoA more minimal data api. :) requests.get('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janaipakos/ghibliapi/master/data.json').json() Now it can be loaded into Pandas for analysis. Even if I was building an app I'd want to own the data 1) so my users aren't being logged by the API service 2) control over the uptime 3) lower latency 4) flexibility of serving the data, such as generating static pages.
- falsedan 10y agoI had to swipe back 6 times to return to HN so I could write a comment to complain… More usefully, this isn't an API, it's a data source for in-universe facts! It has an API (but is not one).
- nebabyte 10y agoYeah, I clicked into the comment thread to figure out what the hell a "Studio Ghibli API" would entail. Mods? "Studio Ghibli dataset" or something?
- toyg 10y agoIt's like the extremely popular Pokeapi (https://pokeapi.co https://pokeapi.co) or SWAPI (https://swapi.co https://swapi.co): a service providing data over a REST interface. In other words, an API. It's honestly the first time I see anyone claiming "an API is not an API unless it changes something".
- mikekchar 10y agoAPI stands for "Application Programming Interface". A website that serves up data is not an API. The best way to explain the difference is that you can write an API on a piece of paper and it is still an API (i.e., you don't have to implement it). It documents how different parts of an application interface with each other. Normally it consists of things like the definitions of functions that you can call to achieve various results. An API is specifically not a service. You can have many services that all use the same API. REST itself is an API. You can build another API on top of REST. So if someone says they have a REST API for querying movie information, that's sensible. If you have a service that serves up movie information, that's not an API. That's a service. It uses an API. It might seem pedantic, but I have talked with otherwise talented programmers who didn't actually know what an API was. They mentioned using "the API" in their front end code and when I asked the only reasonable question, "Which API?" they didn't know how to respond. They've got about a billion libraries in their front end code (like everyone else ;-) ) and each one of them has an API -- otherwise they couldn't use it. However "API" only meant talking to the server to them. I realise common usage is trumping the original definition of the term, but I think that's to the detriment of everyone involved.
- owenversteeg 10y agoI just took a look. It's 48kB uncompressed JSON. You can easily load this into a browser tab. Why is it an API? To save anybody from copy-and-pasting it, here's ten seconds of playing around: > ghibli Object {films: Array(20), people: Array(16), locations: Array(25), species: Array(5), vehicles: Array(3)} > ghibli.films[0] Object {id: "2baf70d1-42bb-4437-b551-e5fed5a87abe", title: "Castle in the Sky", description: "The orphan Sheeta inherited a mysterious crystal t…uta's science to make himself ruler of the world.", director: "Hayao Miyazaki", producer: "Isao Takahata"…} > ghibli.locations[0] Object {id: "11014596-71b0-4b3e-b8c0-1c4b15f28b9a", name: "Irontown", climate: "Continental", terrain: "Mountain", surface_water: "40"…} > ghibli.people[0] Object {id: "ba924631-068e-4436-b6de-f3283fa848f0", name: "Ashitaka", gender: "male", age: "late teens", eye_color: "brown"…}
- flashman 10y ago> Why is it an API? It's not an official Studio Ghibli API. But it's exactly what you'd build if you were learning to build APIs.
- toyg 10y agoLikely because someone wanted to play around, which is how even popular APIs like the Pokemon and StarWars ones started. Besides, being an API it can be extended with things like quotes, exact appearance times etc etc.
- ptrptr 10y agoWhat is possible use case for this?
- novaleaf 10y agoLooking at the example, they show catbus as male. Isn't it female?
- foobarrio 10y agoCatbus has balls: * http://i.imgur.com/gySIZ.png http://i.imgur.com/gySIZ.png
- novaleaf 10y agoI thought that was a labia, as I don't see any other male organ...
- foobarrio 10y agoHeh heh This is a clearer picture: * http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/1355972123_12a28bd3b6.jpg?v=0 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1258/1355972123_12a28bd3b6.jp... Seeing that the peehole is forward would make it male no? This little toy also seems male: * https://img0.etsystatic.com/110/0/11763563/il_570xN.885801298_dk7r.jpg https://img0.etsystatic.com/110/0/11763563/il_570xN.88580129... I'll be sure to ask the opinion of my friends next time I play with their cats! Btw I am not trying to argue. I'm just curious.
- novaleaf 10y agoi thought that "peehole" is a bellybutton, but yeah, maybe it's okay to be interpreted by the viewer :P
- toyg 10y agoI struggle to understand the general negativity of this thread. Like zillions of other projects seen on HN, this is just someone playing around and offering a service others may or may not find interesting. Sure, the dataset is currently small, but it can easily get bigger if anyone starts doing things like marking appearance times, quotes with translations, pictures and so on. Sure, it might not be an official Ghibli project, in the same way IMDB or ComicDB did not start as official projects. I personally find it fun and will look into building something with it, just for kicks. One obvious application would be a GMap mashup with locations, at least for the realistic films. Another would be a Youtube mashup with clips for each element. Sometimes the internet seems too cynical even for a sad old fart like me.
- robertlagrant 10y agoCool idea; bad overuse of history on website.
- erik_seaberg 10y agoIf you ever find yourself assigning a unique URL to a thing which has a name and a type, and assigning a unique URL to the type which has a name and a supertype, consider dusting off rdf:type and rdf:subClassOf and maybe JSON-LD rather than reinventing something very similar.