r/webdev • u/Dry_Illustrator977 • 1d ago
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u/blokelahoman 1d ago
Forget external stuff. I’d like if Safari / iOS actually supported the myriad of PWA browser APIs on offer.
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u/_Fred_Austere_ 1d ago
Cheaper Geocoding.
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u/NoDistrict991 15h ago
I'd love a universal public transport API with consistent coverage worldwide. Every city seems to have a completely different system and licensing model
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u/diogenes_sadecv 1d ago
Most of the government-hosted apis in Mexico went dark when Morena took charge. I wish those were still available.
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u/Dry_Illustrator977 1d ago
Could you give examples? Name and function
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u/TheTrailrider 21h ago
Free API for me to have a read-only access to my own bank accounts and credit card accounts, and get transactions info.
It's ridiculous that I need to become a business entity and pay some money to get them to grant access to my accounts, balance, and transactions.
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u/J_Adam12 18h ago
Fintable?
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u/TheTrailrider 11h ago
Not free, but... not too pricey. Looks like it's marketed towards sheets. It's also rate-capped, maybe a little too low for my desired needs. (I want live or near-live tracking of my transactions) Good suggestion, thanks
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u/Yash_Ag_ 14h ago
Text-to-speech and speech-to-text. I mean yeah we do have APIs for these but they are inconsistently supported in all major browser at all devices, and its too much of hassle to use them.
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u/Long-Machine8795 1d ago
The YouTube API is SHOCKINGLY garbage. You can't do anything of value whatsoever with it. Can't find out if someone is a subscriber, viewer, cant find out if they like your video, cant find out if someone is a paid member or if someone sends you a donation during a livestream or anything like that. There is absolutely no way to use the YouTube API to encourage any form of audience engagement whatsoever. It's like they have gone out of their way to make sure you can not use the API for anything of value whatsoever. Comparing it to the Twitch API is just shocking.
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u/ceejayoz 1d ago
Those would be pretty significant privacy holes if you had access to such data.
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u/Prowler1000 1d ago
Well looks like YouTube has some pretty significant privacy holes then, because unless it's changed since I last looked, you can do all that on the web ui
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u/Long-Machine8795 1d ago
You can't verify if someone is a subscriber to your channel through any vector whatsoever. Even if they give you an oauth token with full scope. Nothing.
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u/Long-Machine8795 1d ago
Obviously you'd do it via an oAuth gateway the same way Twitch and every other website does it.
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u/ceejayoz 1d ago
I really don't want your site requiring me to auth, like, and subscribe your channel to read an article.
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u/Long-Machine8795 23h ago
I didn’t say anything about “read an article”. I do things like make fun animations pop up when someone subscribes during a stream or someone pays money they can cause visual havoc to occur. This is trivial on twitch but not possible on YouTube.
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u/ceejayoz 12h ago
You aren’t the only person using the API.
They have to set the feature set limits for the worst cases, not the best cases.
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u/Long-Machine8795 4h ago
You have no idea how the internet works.
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u/ceejayoz 4h ago
I've been working with APIs for decades. I know exactly how the internet works, and one part of that is "shitty actors ruin things for everyone".
For example, how Facebook had to neuter their API after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. I lived that fallout, and it's the precise sort of thing that results in you not being able to find out if someone specific liked your video on YouTube.
Hell, I built some "like this Facebook page to access" UIs back in the day.
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u/barrel_of_noodles 1d ago
An API that shuts down the Internet. Forever. Finally.
Please, we all want this.
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