An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share your thoughts

goldenkey 12 years ago |

Please put the entire db on a torrent site, api is cool but not all that accessible. Why should beta access be needed? Not really in the spirit of freedom of information? Thanks.

elsurudo 12 years ago | |

An API will ensure that is it up-to-date, though.

goldenkey 12 years ago | | |

Last updated August 20th so not sure about that.

An index would be nice in any case. Fuzzy searching, etc. The API is too specific at the moment and will be hard to hit the right printers.

popasmurf 12 years ago | | |

Thanks for the comments!

I do have an update planned, I didn't anticipate the current amount of attention to be honest.

goldenkey 12 years ago | | |

It'd be amazing if you listed the price too for the cartridges. I'm sure you could make some money with a sortable list and affiliate links to buy printers based on cheapest price per printed page. What do you think?

popasmurf 12 years ago | | |

I don't think it's something I'd implement at the moment. Certainly if it was requested more I could contact a few suppliers and roll it out slowly across a few areas however.

I haven't yet decided upon a direction to take it to be honest.

rw_grim 12 years ago |

Using an API key with an online demo that uses an ajax response and exposes the demo API key is probably not the best idea...

ozh 12 years ago |

extra touch: pretty format the JSON response from the "try it yourself" lookup

Also, allow more fuzzyness in the query maybe. For instance, "IP4000r" returns OK, but "IP 4000 R" (spaces) doesn't.