jService

API Usage

/Clues

• Url: /api/clues
• Options All options are optional:
  • value(int): the value of the clue in dollars
  • category(int): the id of the category you want to return
  • min_date(date): earliest date to show, based on original air date
  • max_date(date): latest date to show, based on original air date
  • offset(int): offsets the returned clues. Useful in pagination

/Random

• Url: /api/random
• Options:
  • count(int): amount of clues to return, limited to 100 at a time

/Final

Presents random final jeopardy question. Note: all final jeopardy questions have null value

• Url: /api/final
• Options:
  • count(int): amount of clues to return, limited to 100 at a time

/Categories

• Url: /api/categories
• Options:
  • count(int): amount of categories to return, limited to 100 at a time
  • offset(int): offsets the starting id of categories returned. Useful in pagination.

/Category

• Url: /api/category
• Options:
  • id(int): Required the ID of the category to return.

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About

This is in large part a project to learn a bit about screen-scraping and creating an easily consumable set of services for public consumption. I will be offering this free of charge, but on a small Heroku instance until sufficient demand exists. Production use is at your own risk.