#use of API

[math-memes]

[destinationairport]

your destination airport is contractually obligated by its relation to destination tourist board to advise you that destination boasts many beautiful sights, fun activities, hidden secrets and delicious foods for you to delight in and explore please do not ask how we acquired your email address to tell you this

[linterteatime]

Lil drawing with the silly for a CSP contest thingy!

[millenniallust4death]

All this talk about Tumblr disappearing and how we should export our blogs.

Writing R code to download all the notes from ONE Tumblr post has been an irritating adventure.

The main problems:

The API only gives you ~50 notes per call - no pagination, no offset, no “get everything” option. Tumblr: Fuck you, API user.

You’re limited to 300 API calls per minute.

Even if you respect that limit, Tumblr will still get cranky and start throwing 429 “Too Many Requests” errors.

When you reach the end of a post’s notes, the API just… repeats the last note forever instead of stopping.

There’s no reliable way to know when you’ve hit the end unless you build that check yourself.

Tags and added text from reblogs are a completely separate part of the API - not included with the likes, reblogs, and replies you get from the /notes endpoint. Why? Tumblr: Fuck you, API user.

Did I mention that the API is a rickety piece of shit? It forced me to get a bit creative. I built a loop that steps backward in time using timestamps to get around the lack of pagination. Since the API only gives you the most recent ~50 notes, I had to manually request older and older notes, one batch at a time - with built-in retries, cooldowns, and rate-aware pacing to avoid getting blocked.

My script works now. It politely crawls back through thousands of notes, exits cleanly when it hits the end, and saves everything to a CSV file.

Was it worth it? Eh.

[potatopassenger]

Collection of Zoro dealing with Luffy having all or nothing spatial awareness when it comes to him

But Zoro also has none...

+ Bonus Usopp praying for Zoro

[kaitcake1289]

happy api heritage month to asian people that should be given life without parole

[keeps-ache]

apricot, apricot ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ !!

[sheepboychibi]

i made the silly some models!! :0

[ainawgsd]

Gonna have to call the pet store. Did not get any fish yesterday, partly because they didn't have any otocinclus in stock. But also because when they tested my water sample the ammonia was 75 (75ppm? Idk).

One of us is wrong

[clumsypuppy]

I CANT USE CSS ON ARTFIGHT...............

[syndrossi]

GMT0+ people, I am sorry that AO3 has chosen to personally victimize you by not letting me schedule posting a chapter during hours friendly to you (which are very unfriendly to me).

[fragariavescana]

Boop Automation Discourse

[catshapes]

there are potential spreadsheets everywhere for those with the eyes to see

[tassaonkaikki]

if any of you are looking at my airbuds thinking my listening activity is weird then that is because it is idk what is happening exactly

[moonliithe]

I know this isn’t the right language for this audience, but for fucks sake why is there ai built in the WhatsApp search bar. I thought this was a messaging service??? Why is the ai coming up before the search itself, who designed this???

This bar existed solely to look up the names of my contacts or the text in the messages we’ve sent each other. Efficient, dare I say even reasonable. But now any attempt to type in a search will have the app bombarding me with a bunch of random prompts. I am a mistap away from wasting a bunch of electricity and water for no reason.

If I wanted to watch exercise reels (never) I wouldn’t be in the goddamn messaging app. If I wanted a playlist I’d be on idk Spotify, YouTube.

It’s driving me insane, all apps want to be the everything app, it isn’t possible.

[dkettchen]

not me finding out that fandom wikis do not have an api (which is like a specialised ui for programmers that a lot of websites have where you can more directly access resources off the website with programming tools, f.e. if one piece wiki had one, you could tell your coding languages like "hey get all the strawhat pirates' names and heights off their character pages and put them in my database here please" and it would be able to get that info off the wiki for you) so I will have to learn web scraping to get data off there for visualising ship stats project I have planned for my data analysis portfolio instead now smh