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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by scottbruin on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:12AM (#4316226)
Not to rain on your parade, but to anyone looking to try this I just wasted 30 minutes getting setup and trying it to find out that Godaddy, for example, returns next to no results through this service so it's no solution to WHOIS woes.
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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by firlefans on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @06:21AM (#4316511)
Firstly, yes our whois parser needs work, whois is a dirty protocol with lots of inconsistency and we haven't spent enough time dealing with parsing ALL the data out. Oddly enough it has already proved useful to some customers and some fields are consistently parsed well. What's your use case and which fields are you interested in that we failed to parse?
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