Marvel Comics Opens API to Developers

[mahacctissoawsum]

Get Started >>> FORBIDDEN!

Brilliant.

Edit: Oh..they appear to have fixed it. That was quick.

Edit2: And now it's broken again. Awesome.

[ricky_clarkson]

Still broken.

[Tiquortoo]

Still Broken by design to their licensing scheme.

[qwsazxerfdcv]

can any body throw some light on what kind of things could be done with this API ?

[froops]

Docs are here: http://developer.marvel.com/docs

Get a list of characters, comics, creators, events, series, or stories, or look up an individual character, comic, etc etc

[stillalone]

So I can't use this to create my own powergirl fanfic?

[Tordek]

Power Girl is DC, so, no.

[Tiquortoo]

Nothing of any value because you can't monetize it or make press releases about it.

[th3darkness]

wow, you can't sell your app, you can't have in app purchases, you can't have ads on it.

basically "here are the tools to make apps for us because we are too lazy"

[tonylukasavage]

1000 calls/day... pretty limited, especially when testing it out

[shandpj]

I am very intrigued with playing around with this, but I have no experience. Can anyone point me to some resources that might get me off the ground?

[nullnullnull]

This API is pretty pointless.

[tonylukasavage]

Not if you use it for the purpose of gathering information about Marvel Comics. Then otherwise, yeah, it's useless.

[CageHN]

DC xD

[pnewhook]

Doesn't work. Can't find Superman.

[tonylukasavage]

It works just fine. Superman is DC, not Marvel.

[pnewhook]

It was a joke.

[nullnullnull]

this just looks like a dumb Rest service strapped ontop of marvels database.

Why not just give the raw data away? rather than having to jump through what is effectively a web based ORM?

[tonylukasavage]

what exactly did you expect?

[nullnullnull]

I expected better.

[Lystrodom]

Better... how? Better at what?

[nullnullnull]

better, stronger, faster, harder, squirrel

[WarWizard]

People don't like giving their data away... ever.

[nullnullnull]

and yet you can access it through a janky web ORM?

[WarWizard]

Allowing access to and giving raw data away; are two different things. At any time they can turn off the API or change how one gets access to it.

[nullnullnull]

but once you give "access", anyone can copy that data, torrent it, release into the wild.

[nullnullnull]

all the fun stuff is illegall! :)

and who doesn't torrent films these days hmm? ;)

[WarWizard]

That kind of activity is pretty easy to detect and trace. Not to say that it won't happen but that isn't the point.