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I'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?)
by johansch 10y ago
I'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.