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Group 12 project 1 for CST438

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Closed bKondo closed 3 years ago

bKondo commented 3 years ago

[x] look for api to grab book titles, authors, genres OR look for alternative API
[x] note api call style
[x] test endpoint for genre filter --> anime title filter

bKondo commented 3 years ago

the following call looks for books in the fantasy category

https://www.googleapis.com/books/v1/volumes?q=incategories:fantasy&printType=books&maxResult=20
note: categories include the overall subject and 3 genres associated with that subject --> I think the category shown in the call is the subject

here are some quick links for later reference:
basics of api search --> https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using#PerformingSearch
doc on q params --> https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using#query-params

bKondo commented 3 years ago

we might need to change APIs

i was looking over the google books API again, it says we need an API key, but we should not include it in publicly available code. I'm pretty sure it's still free, and I think I saw something about temporary test keys that we can use. However, we'd still need to look over the terms of service for google cloud platform services and terms of service for any applicable services and APIs
I must have been wearing rose-colored glasses when I saw the bit about public information not needing authorization. I took that to mean, if you're not using Google user account information, we didn't need formal authorization.

bKondo commented 3 years ago

What do you think of switching from books to anime quotes?

It's free and there are no stipulations for use besides 100 requests per hour

we'd still keep the ability to favorite a quote, like we would have favorited a book
the initial item feed would be 10 random quotes instead of random books
and we'd replace the genre search with an anime title search
the author search would become a character search

bKondo commented 3 years ago

project API has been changed from Google Books API to Animechan quote API.

landing page should show 10 random quotes, quotes pulled by title choice or quotes pulled by character choice
all endpoints pull 10 quotes by default, pagination is possible

endpoints to be used: