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
  • game_id(int): returns only clues from a single game

/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.

Please note there is now rate limiting on the API. If you need more throughput than what is currently implemented, please contact me with details of your use case.