[rozenmd]

(This doesn't apply to every API in the list, but) having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine, never again.

These days I keep an API deployed on a subdomain I control.

[dotancohen]

  > having made the mistake of using a public API (that later went offline) for examples in a book of mine

Literally a tale as old as time. The Old Testament references a command from God, that is not contained in the Old Testament itself.

[singpolyma3]

Do you have an example for this? Just curious

[HideousKojima]

Not sure which specific example they're referring to, but another example is that, according to tradition, the prophet Isaiah was martyred by placing him inside a hollow tree that was then sawn down. This appears to be referenced by the Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:37 even though there is no description of Isaiah's death in the Old Testament:

"They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;"

[082349872349872]

That explains Mel Brooks' 5 missing commandments. Where's the undef ref?

[block_dagger]

Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.

[deanishe]

A tale as old as tales, then.

[Lerc]

The possibility of an internet resource disappearing exists regardless of the resource type. Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work. Give it the request, and it passes it on, records success, optionally sends a notification if an endpoint that previously succeeded is now failing.

Add a fancy feature of redirection with format changing to handle replacing dead APIs with new ones transparently.

If anybody makes one of these, they should totally make it a free public API. I'd use it, and I'm not certain if that would just be ironically.

[dotancohen]

  > Running an API Forwarder that could act as a common target for all your APIs might work.

That just sounds like adding another point of failure into the chain.

[Gasp0de]

I'd say it only makes sense if you control the forwarder.

[deanishe]

But it's one that you can fix.

[shakna]

Maybe we can convince IANA to host a simple API, on example.com as well.

[therealdrag0]

I’ve seen books reference internet archive.