An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share your thoughts

Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by goldenkey on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:29AM (#7080943)

Please put the entire db on a torrent site, api is cool but not all that accessible. Why should beta access be needed? Not really in the spirit of freedom of information? Thanks.

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Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by elsurudo on Saturday January 18, 2014 @08:47AM (#7080983)

An API will ensure that is it up-to-date, though.

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Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by goldenkey on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:00AM (#7081004)

Last updated August 20th so not sure about that.

An index would be nice in any case. Fuzzy searching, etc. The API is too specific at the moment and will be hard to hit the right printers.

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Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by popasmurf on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:22AM (#7081050)

Thanks for the comments!

I do have an update planned, I didn't anticipate the current amount of attention to be honest.

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Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by goldenkey on Saturday January 18, 2014 @09:39AM (#7081080)

It'd be amazing if you listed the price too for the cartridges. I'm sure you could make some money with a sortable list and affiliate links to buy printers based on cheapest price per printed page. What do you think?

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Re:An API for printers and their cartridges. Please share yo... by popasmurf on Saturday January 18, 2014 @10:11AM (#7081139)

I don't think it's something I'd implement at the moment. Certainly if it was requested more I could contact a few suppliers and roll it out slowly across a few areas however.

I haven't yet decided upon a direction to take it to be honest.

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