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

/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.

/Invalid

• Url: /api/invalid
• Options:
  • id(int): Required the ID of the clue to mark as invalid.
    

    Please mark a clue as invalid when the needed information is not present in the clue. This sometimes happens when clues rely on images or sounds to be answered. When useing jService, you may want to check the invalid_count attribute on clues before using them.

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Popular

Jeopardy® is constantly adding more clues to some of the same popular categories. The categories/clues are stored relationally so we can view the most popular categories, or view all clues associated with a particular category, given its id.

View Popular Categories Search Categories

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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.