Skip to content

Update data source tutorial to use more dependable API example #31

Open
@jlengstorf

Description

@jlengstorf

It turns out the IMDB API is pretty unreliable, which is a bummer. This makes it a bad choice for an example data source.

We should revamp the tutorial to use a more reliable API. Requirements are:

  • No API key required — we want people to immediately start coding, not have to sign up for API keys
  • Reliable — should be up more often than not
  • Relatively simple — if we can find a small API with one method, that would actually be the best option. A complete example that doesn’t involve a ton of copy-pasting would make the tutorial much more approachable than having to click through to GitHub for the rest of the code and/or copying hundreds of lines of code to get a proof-of-concept running

I'm currently leaning toward the xkcd API, which is small, reliable, and familiar to many developers.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Labels

    No labels
    No labels

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions