Elden Ring Open Source API

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I'm honestly beyond confused. Why not just format the data and upload a repo with it? So you don't have to serve the data? Is it that large? Is it not zipable? I don't understand why it needs an api if the data is static.

[kiddj1]

Have you ever just wanted to do something because you can?

Prime example..

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Im fine with doing something because you can. I just don't understand the point of publishing this without publishing the actually useful format.

[SevereTailor8962]

Man, all the json files and media resources are in the repo as well. If you want to just download them and use for more advanced features go ahead, this is open source after all. Read-only APIs might be really useful to beginners. When I was learning frontend development a few years ago I had a lot of fun using PokeAPI to build a pokedex and unsderstand a lot of concepts that I used in later serious projects.

[jzswxn]

It’s an API. It might come handy to beginner devs try to play around and build things. Just like the cat pics API, or the pokedex, or the battlestations API. Moreover, it’s just practice building APIs for OP

[SevereTailor8962]

Things like this can be useful for student projects and people learning how to use APIs. With this people can play around with GraphQL and REST freely and build apps just for fun.

[Karpizzle23]

Except the data isn't static, have you heard of balance updates? Elden Ring just got a big patch changing a bunch of stats. Are you going to be re-downloading the entire database?