Building access to global information through subtitles, captions, and localization
There’s a ton of new API code that’s pretty much ready, but unfortunately it’s not quite live yet. We just need to do a few more tests and then we will push it (hopefully like today or tomorrow). The last endpoint I implemented was the users endpoint. It went pretty smoothly. The one notable thing…
This week I worked on one of the more complex API endpoints: the subtitles resource. The reason for the complexity is the atypical output format. Normally API endpoints return an object that’s encoded into JSON (or XML, YAML, or something similar). The subtitles resource follows this pattern, but it also allows users to get the…
Another week has rolled along, so it’s time to talk about the API update progress again. This week I implemented the video language endpoint. It went a lot faster than the video endpoint since it was much simpler. In general, the coding is getting faster since the endpoints are getting simpler and also I’m getting…
It’s been two weeks since I posted about starting work on the Amara API Refactor and I wanted to share the progress since then. As usual, I underestimated the amount of work it would take. Originally I was estimating 2-4 weeks of development time. After 2 weeks, I can safely say that 4 weeks is the…
The Amara API is going to be going through some exciting changes in the near future. I’d like to take this opportunity to explain the reasons behind the change and discuss what it means for people who interact with the Amara API. First off, let me say that there are no plans to change how…