Is there any API?

There most certainly is - http://demozoo.org/api/v1

If you have questions, ask here or let me know if you want to be invited to our Slack team :)

Good :)

Please excuse my ignorance, but how can I get a list of productions of specific type for specific platform?

+1 for the above - is there filtering options for the production/releaser/platform etc in the public interface in style of https://demozoo.org/api/v1/platforms/?search=Amiga or is it just the non-filtered access that is available?

Florist: It seems that there is no possibility requesting production/releaser/platform .. it's a pitty - because this ability would make the difference between an answering API and a data passing process.

The JSON responses are paged, so it would be hard to implement a search/filter in the frontend-side code.
On the other hand a complete JSON .. including all productions e.g. would be too large (?)

I am not that into python, so I cant help that way =/

Unfortunately, I am not a developer so I am hard pressed to answer the technical questions - but we certainly hope to adapt the api to our users, and make available any calls you'd need.

If you join our Slack team, there are people in there who not only helped develop the api, but also people who have implemented it in stuff. Let me know, and I'll extend invitations to the email you registered your user name with.

Is there a plan for exposing the "New Releases" / "New In The Archive" lists in the API?

(Asking for a friend *cough* https://github.com/Gargaj/Conduit/commit/3d22e52cb69febb8ac9181e14a1ce6037944d3b4 *cough*)

Is there a way to get releaser's location via API?

The documentation is a bit sparse. Can you give me an example for searching for a production by name, at the same time limiting the search by platform?

Nobody? C'mon, this is easy.
Are we supposed to parse your funny HTML?

If I interpret the current source code correctly there's no search integrated on the API endpoints. Technically speaking, if you don't care about missing cross-origin headers you could query https://demozoo.org/search/live/?q=prodname&category=

I tried the search api (live) but it returns incomplete result compared to the website.
Also the filters in the api are returning only exact results, not the ones containing the search string :(

trying to get a year round up of prods of specific type ordered by date.
for example all musicdisks released in 2022, which i can get listed here:
https://demozoo.org/search/?q=type%3A%22Musicdisk%22+before%3A%22january+2023%22+after%3A%22december+2021%22
but can't order by date or show additional info to that list (platform, bigger screenshot).

so i'm trying to use the demozoo API to either:
- get those 45 ids of the search results (but the API can't see to be able to filter queries by type, only supertype)
- get the prod info of specific prod if (but the API doesn't seem to search by prod id)

don't really want to waddle through hundreds of API pages to filter out the stuff i'm interested in. would be easier to get a complete database dump and parse that (does that exist for demozoo somewhere? i mean including the updates i just did to the database to make sure demozoo has all the musicdisks with proper data and screenshots, not the 2020 dump)

i'm going to end up scrapping the search page to get those ids and then scrape the prod pages of each one to get the data (or use the productions api filtered by name i guess), but this all feels like a really stupid way of getting a list of prods of certain type ordered by date with a few extra icons showing. this is exactly the sort of usage the API should be facilitating and it's not really doing it's job.

Sounds good!

A daily database dump has been made available since my last post.

Actually think it's been available for longer, just not listed prominently on the FAQ before i poked demozoo admins about it.

Still would be nice to have a few more API functionalities but looking at the github repo issues there are a few other priorities on the todo list of demozoo dev first.