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This is good news! Thanks Thomas.

Great to see this project advancing!

hikoki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 3:47 am Hi Thomas. Is there a way to sort new releases by date? year-month-day

[mention]hikoki[/mention]
Yes, just added 'sort' parameter to search (defaults to newest first) - see more at http://api.zxinfo.dk/doc/#!/zxinfo/searchAndFilter

To get newest 10 releases (SOFTWARE) just do this call: (in fact mode & sort can be left out, as default values are compact & date_desc)

http://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sear ... 0&offset=0

BTW: Also updated to latest ZXDB just released.

^^^
Thanks!!
Is it possible to get a list from a certain month and year?

kolbeck wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:52 am

hikoki wrote: ↑Sun Mar 11, 2018 1:29 pm Apart from Updates sorted by date, it would be nice getting a number of random games from any result list. Something like display only 5 random games from any narrowed query.

The frontpage of ZXInfo already does that but it's not part of the API. Putting it on the TODO list

https://github.com/thomasheckmann/zxinf ... s/issues/3

/Thomas

[mention]hikoki[/mention]

To get random results, use offset=random (size specifies number of documents, max 10 at the moment)
For example to fetch 8 random entries matching 'miner' use this call - try refresh browser

http://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sear ... set=random

/Thomas

hikoki wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:25 pm ^^^
Thanks!!
Is it possible to get a list from a certain month and year?

Not official, but I'll look into it

/Thomas

Is it possible to get a list from a certain month and year?

Remember that 99% of titles won't have any data about month of release.

Thanks Thomas.
Many thanks again!!
To be frank, I don't know how to get a list of a certain year. Looking into months is just an interesting curiosity.

Yes, Ralf. I'd say that even dates have not been taken into account in some games from last years.

hikoki wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:55 pm Thanks Thomas.
Many thanks again!!
To be frank, I don't know how to get a list of a certain year. Looking into months is just an interesting curiosity.

Yes, Ralf. I'd say that even dates have not been taken into account in some games from last years.

[mention]hikoki[/mention] I've added 'year' as an option, for example to search for 'Andrew' in 2017 releases use:

http://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sear ... 0&offset=0

As Ralf mentioned only a very tiny part of entries have month & day info, so I decided it was not worth adding these as filters - however the sort options will take them into consideration, if they exist.

/Thomas

So sum up ZXInfo API v1.3.0 has been released at http://api.zxinfo.dk/doc/

Different level of output details
All methods support a mode flag for output. Mode can be full or compact, and default is compact
For methods returning a single entry, compact mode returns the following fields:

fulltitle, yearofrelease, monthofrelease, dayofrelease, machinetype, numberofplayers, multiplayermode, multiplayermode, type, subtype, isbn, messagelanguage, originalprice, availability, knownerrors, remarks, spotcomments, score, publisher, releases, authors, roles, authored, authoring, controls, series, othersystems, contents, incompilations, booktypeins, additionals, mod_of, modified_by

For methods returning multiple entries, compact mode returns the following fields:

fulltitle, yearofrelease, monthofrelease, dayofrelease, type, subtype, authors, publishers, machinetype

Sorting
For methods returning multiple entries a sort flag is supported to specify sort order. Sort order can be:

• title_asc - sort by title ascending

• title_desc - sort by title descending

• date_asc - sort by date (year, month, day) ascending (oldest first)

• date_desc - sort by date (year, month, day) descending (newest first)

By default date_desc is used.

Display X random entries
The search method now supports returning X random entries from the search. Use size and offset to control result:

• offset=random - return random documents

• size=n - number of documents to return, max value for n is 10

New search filters
For the search method the following filters are added:

• year - filter by release year

• language - filter by messagelanguage

More flexible ID parsing
The method getGameById now supports id with less than 7 digits. It also handles invalid id and nothing found by returning http status 400 & 404

No more timeout if size or offset is missing
Parameters are now required for all methods returning multiple entries, and can be used for pagination.

/Thomas

IMPORTANT:

For now the API is https only, let me know if that's a problem.

/Thomas

This API is awesome!!!

Also it's nice to see how much attention Thomas gives to people's suggestions and how fast he implements them.

This API is already being used by Dario's SpeccyBot, an interactive chat bot for Telegram that allows searching online for Spectrum related information. You can see it in action here:



Unfortunately it's currently available in Spanish only. Hopefully it won't take too long to get an English version... For further information:

https://github.com/druellan/speccybot

Thank you [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] - part of openness is to pay attention to the users, this case (potentially) all of you.

Let me also inform, that from now on the ZXDB API is hosted on a professional web hosting / datacenter - to ensure top quality performance, stability & availability.

/Thomas

Hello

The ZXInfo API has been updated to latest ZXDB as of March 28th.

That's fast! Thank you!

New beta of ZXDB API has just been released. This version contains WIP of a Magazine focused API

Find more info here: https://api.zxinfo.dk/doc/

TLDR;
Quick examples of use:
List all magazines
https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/mag ... t=name_asc

Show (short)issue info for Sinclair User
https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/mag ... ser/issues

Show full info for issue-id 7 for Sinclair User
https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/mag ... r/issues/7

Show only references in issue-id=7
https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/mag ... references

Show only files in issue-id=7
https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/mag ... es/7/files

Note: issue-id is the internal ZXDB issue-ID and can be found by using the .../issue method.

Better search for magazines is next on the list
/Thomas

Awesome!

This is awesome! Thanks both of you for making this possible

API updated to ZXDB as per. 5th. April 2018

Hi! Quick question. What's the meaning of the "availability" property?

I thought it was referring to the fact that the game is available (or has permission) to be downloaded.

But if you search for new games using:

https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sea ... =Available

The list is not the same as using:

https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sea ... e=SOFTWARE

Not sure if this is a mistake or I'm confused about the meaning of this property.

Thanks!

druellan wrote: ↑Sat May 19, 2018 2:19 pm Hi! Quick question. What's the meaning of the "availability" property?

I thought it was referring to the fact that the game is available (or has permission) to be downloaded.

But if you search for new games using:

https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sea ... =Available

The list is not the same as using:

https://api.zxinfo.dk/api/zxinfo/v2/sea ... e=SOFTWARE

Not sure if this is a mistake or I'm confused about the meaning of this property.

Thanks!

The two queries are not the same, first one only search for "SOFTWARE" where availability status is Available, the other one search for any "SOFTWARE.

For more info on values for availablity, look at https://github.com/zxdb/ZXDB and in the section: Enumeration tables

/Thomas

HI kolbeck. And yes, exactly, but I think I was not clear enough about the problem. Mind, that is not a problem with your API, but probably something related to data entry. I've added this here because I can't check this information directly.

Let's try this:

This game: https://zxinfo.dk/details/0034299
Is missing the "available" tag, but, is ready for download, so, unless I'm confused about what "available" should indicate, I think it is.

Following that interpretation, If you look at both queries, many games added after "Go Race!" should be available, and are not.

Hi

I vaguely remember this being discusses here before, maybe [mention]Einar Saukas[/mention] can remeber the thread with the discussion of "Availability"?

/Thomas

Hi kolbeck.
Sorry my ignorance but how can I take an image from a link?
For example: "cover_image":"/pub/sinclair/magazines/SinclairUser/Issue001/SUCover001.jpg" ?

Thank you.

From ZXDB at GitHub:

Local file links starting with /pub/sinclair/ refer to content previously available at the original WorldOfSpectrum archive. These files are currently accessible from Archive.org mirror at https://archive.org/download/World_of_S ... /sinclair/

Local file links starting with /zxdb/sinclair/ refer to content added afterwards. These files are currently stored at https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/zxdb/sinclair/