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Thank you. I was looking for an API only yesterday, and didn't find any that is as good as this one. Even the Princeton University one didn't fit into my workfl

Thank you. I was looking for an API only yesterday, and didn't find any that is as good as this one. Even the Princeton University one didn't fit into my workflow, because it is overly complex.

impostervt 12y ago
That's pretty much why I built this. It's a great resource, but geared towards lexicographers vs developers.
- ghchinoy 12y ago
  This is awesome! I'd love to hear more about how this was created (node/express, etc.)!
  - impostervt 12y ago
    It's a Node/express app. The word data is in Postgres (hosted by heroku), user/metric data is in mongo (via mongolab.com). Hosting is from heroku fronted by cloudflare.
    - ghchinoy 12y ago
      Thank you! Impressive. How do you limit anonymous web user's queries?
      - impostervt 12y ago
        Requests made for the demo don't have an access token. On the back end I look for this case, and then see if the request has "when" and "encrypted" parameters. "when" is just a date/time stamp, and "encrypted" is the same thing..encrypted. If I see both those params, I decrypt the "encrypted" and make sure it matches the "when" to validate the server created it, and make sure the "when" is less than one hour. Otherwise, all requests require an access token.
        bovermyer 12y ago
        What do you use to cache requests?
        impostervt 12y ago
        Redis & cloudflare.
    - kamladi 12y ago
      What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
    - kamladi 12y ago
      What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
    - kamladi 12y ago
      What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
    - kamladi 12y ago
      What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...

Thank you. I was looking for an API only yesterday, and didn't find any that is as good as this one. Even the Princeton University one didn't fit into my workflow, because it is overly complex.

impostervt 12y ago

That's pretty much why I built this. It's a great resource, but geared towards lexicographers vs developers.

ghchinoy 12y ago
This is awesome! I'd love to hear more about how this was created (node/express, etc.)!
- impostervt 12y ago
  It's a Node/express app. The word data is in Postgres (hosted by heroku), user/metric data is in mongo (via mongolab.com). Hosting is from heroku fronted by cloudflare.
  - ghchinoy 12y ago
    Thank you! Impressive. How do you limit anonymous web user's queries?
    - impostervt 12y ago
      Requests made for the demo don't have an access token. On the back end I look for this case, and then see if the request has "when" and "encrypted" parameters. "when" is just a date/time stamp, and "encrypted" is the same thing..encrypted. If I see both those params, I decrypt the "encrypted" and make sure it matches the "when" to validate the server created it, and make sure the "when" is less than one hour. Otherwise, all requests require an access token.
      - bovermyer 12y ago
        What do you use to cache requests?
        impostervt 12y ago
        Redis & cloudflare.
  - kamladi 12y ago
    What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
  - kamladi 12y ago
    What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
  - kamladi 12y ago
    What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...
  - kamladi 12y ago
    What lead you to use Mongo for userdata/metrics and Postgres for words? Are there specific features of each that you're using? I'm new to both, so just trying to learn which use cases prefer one over the other...