Listing possible new providers

[frizensami]

Requirements: free, no API key required (can be done fully clientside)

Research Paper

• Arxiv API: https://arxiv.org/help/api/user-manual#search_query_and_id_list
• Unpaywall (free research article search): https://unpaywall.org/products/api

General search

• Unofficial google news: https://github.com/DatanewsOrg/google-news-js
• Duckduckgo Instant answers API: https://duckduckgo.com/api
• Wikipedia (MediaWiki): https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
• Lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/ (mostly tech-related discussions)

Code

• https://docs.github.com/en/rest

• Bing Search API: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing

[yshalsager]

https://lobste.rs/ is another great place to get comments from, it's link aggregating website like hackernews.

[frizensami]

Good idea! Seems like it doesn't have a direct API, so we have to do some scraping.

[yshalsager]

@frizensami There is no API at but you can get JSON representations of various pages by appending dot JSON to page URL.

For example

https://lobste.rs/s/lejtxs/github_will_natively_support_mermaid.json