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API for Random Images #11

Closed themataleao closed 4 years ago

themataleao commented 4 years ago

I love your API and would like to integrate your commercial images into our product but through your API, do you consider creating an API Endpoint?

It could work the same way as your existing API, just for the usage of those datasets.

Creative Commons Images from Flickr is the same, but I like your API more. 👍

lukechesser commented 4 years ago

@Man7hano not sure I follow. We have an API endpoint for serving random images available here: https://unsplash.com/documentation#get-a-random-photo

themataleao commented 4 years ago

Hey @lukechesser, yes I know but I am not allowed to use all of them for machine learning purposes, therefore I am not allowed to connect to the API as a partner. I would like to use random images within the Lite Dataset because I can use it in a commercial way through the same API.

lukechesser commented 4 years ago

@Man7hano ah I see what you mean. Can you not just grab a random photo from the dataset itself?

themataleao commented 4 years ago

@lukechesser hmmm, I could do that but I can not load the dataset into my app it is just too big, I need to save space wherever I can. As far as I can see there is only a Python and PostgresSQL wrapper. An API is great because you only need to load a small bunch of images for every instance. I could build my own API with your dataset, but I prefer your API because it is really well set up and works great for my purposes. :) Anyway, if there is no option I will figure something out...Thanks for checking 👍

lukechesser commented 4 years ago

@Man7hano to be clear, the data is just a TSV. It can be loaded into anything — MySQL, SQLite, etc. The Python and Postgres documentation are just examples of how to load the TSV data into another format