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Maybe I am missing something, but how does this differ from www.programmableweb.com? Seems more complete and more used
by Fragoel2 9y ago
Maybe I am missing something, but how does this differ from www.programmableweb.com? Seems more complete and more used
- TeMPOraL 9y agoCompared to a Github list, Programmable Web - is ad ridden, - tracks the bejeezus out of you, - looks a bit sketchy in some places, - has a lot of junk you have to wade through before getting to the interesting part, - and of course is not community-driven the way a Github list is. On the other hand, when they do have a summary - see e.g. some API I picked up at random[0] - it's significantly better and more useful than what is on the Github list. -- [0] - https://www.programmableweb.com/api/nationbuilder https://www.programmableweb.com/api/nationbuilder
- TeMPOraL 9y agoToo late to edit now, but I feel that the criticism of PW I presented here is pretty unfair to the site - especially that I meant the post to be more of a comparison than evaluation. A better list would look like: - has plenty of ads (vs. no ads on GitHub), - tracks the bejeezus out of you, - the site itself looks more like a news site than catalogue (possibly because it is also a news site about APIs), - it's not so community driven compared to a GitHub list (OTOH, it seems much more organized), - it's heavy (resource-wise) compared to GitHub, - but, it has much better summaries of APIs and links to plenty of related resources for each, - and it has much more APIs than the Github list. So please don't be discouraged by my comments; if you're into APIs, check the PW site out and form your own opinion.