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by xg15 1002 days ago
I think for <1MB of data, with changes once (or twice) a year, the correct API is a static webserver with working ETag/If-Modified-Since support.

If you want to get really fancy, offer an additional webhook which triggers when the file changes - so clients know when to redownload it and don't have to poll once a day.

...or make a script that sends a predefined e-mail to a mailing list when there is a change.
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calpaterson 1002 days ago
> working ETag/If-Modified-Since support

I completely agree and csvbase already implements this (so does curl btw), try:

    curl --etag-compare stock-exchanges-etag.txt --etag-save stock-exchanges-etag.txt https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges.parquet -O
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justsomehnguy 1002 days ago
> ETag/If-Modified-Since

See above. Also you can just publish the version in DNS with a long enough TTL

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