Re:The Owen Wilson Wow API
by amamenko on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:15PM
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100% manual effort, you're right. Took me about three weeks to compile all the clips and data in my spare time and upload them all to Contentful. I'm aware of three clips that others had told me to make a bit longer - I Spy, Drillbit Taylor (second wow), Shanghai Knights (third wow.) If there are others, feel free to let me know, the more input, the better.
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I have to ask, what motivated you to see it through?
Basically, I had just finished coding a Twitter bot called @BreakingCasting which posts fake movie remake casting announcements. I really liked using the TMDB API for that so I figured I'd make another small project along the lines of movies/actors/Hollywood until I came up with something more substantive.
I'm pretty sure I came up with this Wow API in the shower and figured it'd be fun and easy - it ended up being fun and tedious. I started working on it on Valentine's Day, finished in early March. The main motivation to finish was my current project, Hollywoodle (https://hollywoodle.ml/), which I refused to start until the Wow API was done.
@BreakingCasting is really cool, congratulations. One suggestion which you are probably already aware: It would be nice if the bot can choose actors of proper age, depending on the difference between the years of the original and the remake. Warren Beatty is older than Harrison Ford, for example!