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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.
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