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There is no Public API for London 2012 Olympics. APIfied version of Medals

30 points by travisneotyler 14y ago

nathanpc 14y ago
It's sad that the London 2012 Olympics doesn't have a public API. If there was we would have seen a lot of awesome implementations from developers.
- mattacular 14y ago
  And which organization do you see stepping forward to foot the bill for this? Not to mention the current companies who have permission to distribute Olympic data feeds would fight it to the bitter end because obviously they make tons of money off of that data by selling it to all the big-name sports sites out there.
  - DrJokepu 14y ago
    LOCOG could provide the feed and it could be sponsored by IBM, Oracle, Accenture or any one of those big IT consulting companies.
    - sathish316 14y ago
      NYTimes has an Olympics API and it powers this site http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com/ http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com/ (Source: http://darentrousdell.com/post/28210308665/guardian-olympics http://darentrousdell.com/post/28210308665/guardian-olympics) Not sure how to use it
  - adamt 14y ago
    In the context of the $15Bn total cost of the games, the cost of providing a data API to results and medals is hardly going to be significant.
travisneotyler 14y ago
This google doc contains all known 2012 Olympics APIs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCvYbQOu94PpkEmxXwiFFWQYQNtKbw7RHobCDwo2dOQ/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCvYbQOu94PpkEmxXwiFFWQY... It is maintained by @gr33ndata https://twitter.com/gr33ndata https://twitter.com/gr33ndata. If you know any other APIs, please post here or in google docs
pawannitj 14y ago
its not real time... data is updated too late
- travisneotyler 14y ago
  It refreshes every 30 minutes.
veyron 14y ago
You should add a "last-updated" field so we know when it was last updated.
- travisneotyler 14y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion. Will be adding it soon along with refresh interval.
bert2002 14y ago
For Medals you could use this: https://www.gstatic.com/london/2012/portal/medals.js https://www.gstatic.com/london/2012/portal/medals.js

It's sad that the London 2012 Olympics doesn't have a public API. If there was we would have seen a lot of awesome implementations from developers.

mattacular 14y ago
And which organization do you see stepping forward to foot the bill for this? Not to mention the current companies who have permission to distribute Olympic data feeds would fight it to the bitter end because obviously they make tons of money off of that data by selling it to all the big-name sports sites out there.
- DrJokepu 14y ago
  LOCOG could provide the feed and it could be sponsored by IBM, Oracle, Accenture or any one of those big IT consulting companies.
  - sathish316 14y ago
    NYTimes has an Olympics API and it powers this site http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com/ http://wasanolympicrecordsettoday.com/ (Source: http://darentrousdell.com/post/28210308665/guardian-olympics http://darentrousdell.com/post/28210308665/guardian-olympics) Not sure how to use it
- adamt 14y ago
  In the context of the $15Bn total cost of the games, the cost of providing a data API to results and medals is hardly going to be significant.

travisneotyler 14y ago

This google doc contains all known 2012 Olympics APIs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCvYbQOu94PpkEmxXwiFFWQYQNtKbw7RHobCDwo2dOQ/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCvYbQOu94PpkEmxXwiFFWQY... It is maintained by @gr33ndata https://twitter.com/gr33ndata https://twitter.com/gr33ndata. If you know any other APIs, please post here or in google docs

pawannitj 14y ago

its not real time... data is updated too late

travisneotyler 14y ago
It refreshes every 30 minutes.

veyron 14y ago

You should add a "last-updated" field so we know when it was last updated.

travisneotyler 14y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. Will be adding it soon along with refresh interval.

bert2002 14y ago

For Medals you could use this: https://www.gstatic.com/london/2012/portal/medals.js https://www.gstatic.com/london/2012/portal/medals.js