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(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never

(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again. These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.

Lerc 2y ago
The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type. Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing. Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with new ones transparently. If anybody makes one of these, they should totally make it a free public API. I'd use it, and I'm not certain if that would just be ironically.
- dotancohen 2y ago
  > Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. That just sounds like adding another point of failure into the chain.
  - Gasp0de 2y ago
    I'd say it only makes sense if you control the forwarder.
  - deanishe 2y ago
    But it's one that you can fix.
- shakna 2y ago
  Maybe we can convince IANA to host a simple API, on example.com as well.
dotancohen 2y ago
> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.
- 082349872349872 2y ago
  That explains Mel Brooks' 5 missing commandments. Where's the undef ref?
- singpolyma3 2y ago
  Do you have an example for this? Just curious
  - HideousKojima 2y ago
    Not sure which specific example they're referring to, but another example is that, according to tradition, the prophet Isaiah was martyred by placing him inside a hollow tree that was then sawn down. This appears to be referenced by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:37 even though there is no description of Isaiah's death in the Old Testament: "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"
- block_dagger 2y ago
  Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.
  - deanishe 2y ago
    A tale as old as tales, then.
therealdrag0 2y ago
I’ve seen books reference internet archive.

Lerc 2y ago

The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type. Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing. Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with new ones transparently. If anybody makes one of these, they should totally make it a free public API. I'd use it, and I'm not certain if that would just be ironically.

dotancohen 2y ago
> Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. That just sounds like adding another point of failure into the chain.
- Gasp0de 2y ago
  I'd say it only makes sense if you control the forwarder.
- deanishe 2y ago
  But it's one that you can fix.
shakna 2y ago
Maybe we can convince IANA to host a simple API, on example.com as well.

dotancohen 2y ago

> having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.

082349872349872 2y ago
That explains Mel Brooks' 5 missing commandments. Where's the undef ref?
singpolyma3 2y ago
Do you have an example for this? Just curious
- HideousKojima 2y ago
  Not sure which specific example they're referring to, but another example is that, according to tradition, the prophet Isaiah was martyred by placing him inside a hollow tree that was then sawn down. This appears to be referenced by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:37 even though there is no description of Isaiah's death in the Old Testament: "They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"
block_dagger 2y ago
Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.
- deanishe 2y ago
  A tale as old as tales, then.

therealdrag0 2y ago

I’ve seen books reference internet archive.