Note: This project is no longer active.
This is a tech-heavy project aimed at software developers. If 'JSON' and 'API'
mean nothing to you, you are probably best skipping this page. Otherwise, CO-API
is a RestAPI which provides serves this site's (craigoates.net) meta-data.
I made the API out of curiosity. I wanted to see things like what day of the
week I completed most of my work on and what has been my most productive year so
far. I began doing this in a manual fashion (I.E. accessing the database and
writing SQL statements) and did not save the results. I did not save them
because I considered each look-up as a one-off type of thing. After the third
time of doing this, I decided I should make this a bit easier for myself -- or
repeatable at least. So, I began saving the results of the look-ups but then I
thought about it and -- much faffing later -- CO-API was created. By doing this,
I can now attach this data to various endpoints (proof-of-concept app's, 'fake
data', charting libraries Etc.) and so can you.
I created CO-API with Swagger and the output is in JSON. The site, also, has a
preview feature (courtesy of Swagger) so you can see what the data looks like
without writing a line of code. It, also, provides details of various schemas so
you can map the data to the appropriate datatype your end (again, courtesy of
Swagger).
An example of this API being used is in another project of mine called
CO-Data. It produces graphs to show the meta-data for work I have published to
this (craigoates.net) site. That CO-Data is an open-source project so you can
modify the code to your liking -- or use it as a reference for working with the
data provided by CO-API.
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