Revive Old IA Branches

[moollaza]

https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/branches/stale

Previously we have pushed the "abandoned" PRs to a branch for others to work off of and they've been sitting there for a while now untouched.

Most of the branchs here have Spice IAs that are nearly complete, but in many cases need to be updated to meet the current Spcie practices (using built-in Templates and the new Spice API)

If you're interested in picking up some of these IA's feel free to let us know and submit a PR :smile:

[tagawa]

Re. the exoplanets IA, the original API (exoapi.com) seems dead but NASA have a public API that could probably be used: http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/program_interfaces.html

[iambibhas]

I looked at the ideas/firefox-plugins branch. addons.mozilla.org API now returns XML as mentioned here. They probably changed it since the last time that branch was used.

[moollaza]

@iambibhas it looks like that branch was going to use XML (which isn't allowed), but I just tried adding ?format=json to an example URL in their docs and it worked! :smiley:

https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/1865?format=json

Update: Damn, that's not a search query. The Search Endpoint returns a "not implemented" -- https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/search/popup?format=json?

Looks like we'll have to forgo this IA for now :disappointed:

[iambibhas]

Cool! Not sure why it isn't documented. So I Can work on it. Lemme give it a try.

[iambibhas]

Looks like JSON response isn't available for the search endpoint.

{
    "msg": "Not implemented yet."
}

https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/search/memory/all/1?format=json

[iambibhas]

This old IA(stale branch upc) specifies the API Key in plain text. That should be removed, right? https://github.com/duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-spice/blob/upc/lib/DDG/Spice/Upc.pm#L10

[moollaza]

@iambibhas that's not one of DDG's keys, it's the contributor's, but yes if you plan to bring back that IA, you should get a new key, and replace it with our standard syntax: {ENV{{DDG_SPICE_UPC_API_KEY}}}.

The contributor isn't using that key though for anything else. He was a DDG intern :)

[iambibhas]

Just maintaining a checklist -

• [ ] campaign-finance
• [x] upc
• [ ] exoplanets
• [ ] 4chan
• [ ] mta
• [ ] ideas/doi
• [x] ideas/deb - #1697
• [x] ideas/wikinews
• [ ] jd/lobbying

[javathunderman]

@moollaza I'll make a PR for lobbying (with unchanged code) and I think we can go from there.

[iambibhas]

@mariano-simone-zocdoc I agree that it's really poor. I tried finding a better source, but couldn't find anything. Might need a vote to decide what to do with it.

[altern8tif]

@mariano-simone-zocdoc @iambibhas Found this from Digit-Eyes. It has thumbnails and a link to the product page. Unfortunately it's not free.

Not sure what DDG's policy on APIs which require paid access though. Couldn't find it in the documentation.