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An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share your thoughts
- goldenkey 13y agoPlease put the entire db on a torrent site, api is cool but not all that accessible. Why should beta access be needed? Not really in the spirit of freedom of information? Thanks.
- elsurudo 13y agoAn API will ensure that is it up-to-date, though.
- goldenkey 13y agoLast updated August 20th so not sure about that. An index would be nice in any case. Fuzzy searching, etc. The API is too specific at the moment and will be hard to hit the right printers.
- popasmurf 13y agoThanks for the comments! I do have an update planned, I didn't anticipate the current amount of attention to be honest.
- goldenkey 13y agoIt'd be amazing if you listed the price too for the cartridges. I'm sure you could make some money with a sortable list and affiliate links to buy printers based on cheapest price per printed page. What do you think?
- popasmurf 13y agoI don't think it's something I'd implement at the moment. Certainly if it was requested more I could contact a few suppliers and roll it out slowly across a few areas however. I haven't yet decided upon a direction to take it to be honest.
- ozh 13y agoextra touch: pretty format the JSON response from the "try it yourself" lookup Also, allow more fuzzyness in the query maybe. For instance, "IP4000r" returns OK, but "IP 4000 R" (spaces) doesn't.
- rw_grim 13y agoUsing an API key with an online demo that uses an ajax response and exposes the demo API key is probably not the best idea...