THE VIDEO SHELF · open apis decline
This Video Has 77,321,815 Views
Tom Scott's video whose title shows its own live view count, and the story of how he made that work. It explains why open APIs were once common and why they largely disappeared.
Why HN readers recommended it
The go-to citation for why free, open APIs get shut down and for the fate of services like Yahoo Pipes.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Tom Scott
- Topic
- open apis decline
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 10
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out[0]. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. [0] [VIDEO]
Sophira on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Should you make an open API?Tom Scott made a wonderful video a while back about open APIs, and about how they (mostly) died out[0]. It's currently called "This Video Has 51,973,714 Views", and I personally believe it's a great watch. [0] [VIDEO]
iamahackerguy on Hacker News · 2022-03
In Should you make an open API?
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.