Building a no-signup REST API for 25 daily-updated public data sites

张刀刀

Posted on Sep 4

AI-assisted

I maintain a group of small sites that archive daily public records and related cultural reference material. The hard part was not fetching JSON; it was deciding when data from multiple sources was complete enough to publish.

I built a read-only REST API that normalizes the archive and aggregates 25 daily-updated series. Disclosure: I maintain the API and the linked 181649 / 49VIP sites.