SWAPI
Learning and science
star wars dataset api
SHOW HN2014
How HN took it
7 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Idea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, awesome idea for demos and teaching APIs
From 3 comments
Signed up. This is going to be great for conference demos.
1kevgriff on HNTotally ridiculous, but awesome at the same time. Make that API great! Whats the backend?
acomjean on HNHah! I'm in need of just this sort of API come January, what are the odds? Awesome, hope you launch soon!
SvenAndersson on HN
Objections
Landing page only at launch, API not yet online
From 1 comment
I was so excited and then equally let down when I realized it wasn't online and this is just a coming soon page. Oh well, I signed up.
anonfunction on HN
Missing license on the data
From 2 comments
Under which license is this data available?
emillon on HNThank you for what you're doing, that's awesome! I'd like to enlighten why choosing a license is important. Many people can be picky about the license, because even though you…
rakoo on HN
Film coverage error on front page
From 1 comment
Not encouraging to see a basic error right on the front page: "From all six Star Wars films" Couldn't resist... ;-)
reubenswartz on HN
Requests
Add a list endpoint returning all resources
From 1 comment
I think it would be nice to also provide an endpoint that lists all the resources as an array of objects where the key is the id and the value is the name. Maybe something like…
anonfunction on HN
Use numeric IDs in JSON output
From 1 comment
Is there a reason you're not using numbers in the json output? ``` "vehicle_id": "1" ``` is better represented as: ``` "vehicle_id": 1 ```
idlewan on HN
Add a license to the data
From 1 comment
Thank you for what you're doing, that's awesome! I'd like to enlighten why choosing a license is important. Many people can be picky about the license, because even though you…
rakoo on HN
Questions
Where is the data sourced from
From 1 comment
Where are your getting the data?
anonfunction on HN
How fuzzy URL matching works
From 1 comment
Do you mind discussing how you did the fuzzy matching? My initial guess would've been dynamic programming (levenstein distance), but if this is API-wide, did you make a suffix…
svsaraf on HN
Alternatives named
PokeAPI
From 2 comments
Hey! Thanks. I made the Pokémon API as well - http://pokeapi.co The backend on that is Django. I might stick with what I know, or build SWAPI in Go. At the moment, we're still…
paulhallett on HNThis is amazing, all I need is a reason to mash http://pokeapi.co into this
ukmadlz on HN
Virtualized Star Wars API by CA (vapi)
From 1 comment
I Virtualized this API just for kicks - https://vapi.ca.com/vapi/api/Vapidemouser/Star_Wars/planets/7 and https://vapi.ca.com/vapi/api/Vapidemouser/Star_Wars/vehicles/1 Would…
ianakelly on HN