Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by MengerSponge on Friday September 15, 2023 @08:49PM (#37530883)

But what if an analyst needs to access this data and run their regressions on a potato? Surely that use case is worth adding a few libraries to handle.

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by innocenat on Friday September 15, 2023 @09:18PM (#37531043)

I would think running regression should be more demanding on the potato then decompressing ZIP file.

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by CJefferson on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:35PM (#37531489)

What machine could anyone be running an analysis on where unzip is a limiting factor?

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by londonReed on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:45PM (#37531872)

Whoosh

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by adbachman on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:19AM (#37534177)

you heard them, a literal potato from the ground.

even a big old russet only has, what, like 32 bites?

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by pantalaimon on Saturday September 16, 2023 @12:17PM (#37536114)

I mean there are some potatoes that take more then four bytes to eat, but they are rare.

For some, if you slice them, you might even end up with only 16 bits.

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Re:Why my favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central... by nikau on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:59AM (#37533162)

hmm good point, can you draft up an architecture plan using multiple microservices and redundancy via a kubernetes cluster and have it on my desk by Monday please.

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