Closed IanHopkinson closed 9 years ago
What are you trying to do? Is it valuable?
(Technically, to make it convenient to access the API from "outside the web app" we'd need to add some sort of token based authentication. There are express modules for doing this, it's all doable).
I've got a set of twitter follower tools and a set of twitter search tools in a datahub, I want to do analyses between those data sets i.e. compare the followers of different accounts and the results of different searches.
This is for a proposal to a customer in the social media area, so it is valuable.
Yes, comparing different datasets does sound quite useful.
Could we provide ident-based authentication to subsets of our API, or is that likely to be problematic?
This one I still want!
At the time David and I had a discussion as to the relevance of this for two quite distinct use cases:
I want to access a list of my datasets in Python so that I can carry out analyses on multiple datasets in a hub. Right now I want to do this from my local machine, eventually I could see it being a tool. The information returned by: https://scraperwiki.com/api/shortName/datasets Is ideal.