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I’m sorry why wouldn’t I just download the whole text? It’s a document?
by killingtime74 5y ago
I’m sorry why wouldn’t I just download the whole text? It’s a document?
- jhgb 5y agoDidn't you hear? APIs are the new religion. ;)
- pletnes 5y agoIs it freely available in a structured, machine readable «here is verse XX» format? I could ask the same for other holy texts, I guess.
- jhgb 5y agoI bet pretty much all of them will be. People have all sorts of weird hobbies, so for every holy text three thousand years old, there will be at least six machine-readable versions.
- asim 5y agoPeople may want to not only read but build apps, websites, include the text, translate, etc. So it's more about programmatic access to the text. If you see Quran.com this is exactly what it does.
- cphoover 5y agowhy can't you have programmatic access to local data though? Store the data in a sqlite database if you care to. there are all sorts of different clients that interact with local or embedded data
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI'm not a muslim, but I do build a lot of tools for myself (and to a lesser degree for the public), and open APIs like these are incredibly convenient. Saves me from having to do a lot of data processing.
- jhgb 5y agoI believe the gist of the question was "why provide remote access to data that is just several megabytes in size?". You could easily pack both the code AND all the data into a single package. Equally convenient AND works offline at the same time.
- cphoover 5y agogood explanation summarizing my critique as well