Public api

[duncte123]

I was wondering if it was possible for thisworddoesnotexist.com to have an API that other developers can use so they don't have to set this project up themselves

[turtlesoupy]

It's definitely possible, but hosting costs can be pretty expensive for inference queries. @duncte123 can you tell me a bit more about your use case?

[duncte123]

Of course I can, my use case would be a command on a discord bot that displays the words and mimics the formatting on the website. This could be achieved by web-scraping but an api is just easier to work with.

[turtlesoupy]

@duncte123 sweet, that's very cachable. I cached 100,000 words for the website in this file: https://github.com/turtlesoupy/this-word-does-not-exist/blob/master/website/data/words.json.gz

The JSON format should be pretty obvious once unzipping. Maybe load it in and start from there?

[duncte123]

That json is definitely workable, the only thing that I'm missing in the data are the permalinks for linking back to the site

[turtlesoupy]

Ah okay, that’s a little tricker. How about I throw up a JSON endpoint. One sec

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That json is definitely workable, the only thing that I'm missing in the data are the hashes for linking back to the site

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[turtlesoupy]

@duncte123 try https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/api/random_word.json

I reserve the right to add a mandatory API key in the future!

[duncte123]

@duncte123 try https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/api/random_word.json

I reserve the right to add a mandatory API key in the future!

Thank you so much, I'll make sure to sign up for the API key if it ever becomes required

[desegura]

nice API @turtlesoupy what about to include a query function that allows to ask for 8 characters lenght words? e.g

[turtlesoupy]

@desegura can you describe your use case as well? Generating from scratch is quite expensive unless it’s in a cache

[desegura]

imagine this call: "https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/?len=7" returning: "zupital" e.g

I mean a way to stablish the length of the word

[desegura]

I know it will be expensive but very usefull

[CreativityTheEmotion]

Would there be a way to send an API request to define a specific word, analogous to the website's "Write your own" feature?