[IanCal]

> You're assuming you want your API to work with a specialized crawler, like Google-bot.

Not really, I just don't

In general, the key point as about working in a generic way, given that it's so simple.

I don't like the idea of returning a human readable message that says there was an error but a machine readable message that says everything was fine. I have far too many cases of having to deal with human text explaining that a value is missing already in my data.