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Daniel E.2's avatar
Daniel E.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Requesting an API call to find revision by date

I'm looking at the API documentation for /revisions, and it seems like it's missing a really obvious use case: finding the single revision closest to the specified date (or, the two revisions closest...
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Daniel E.2's avatar
Daniel E.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Hmm, good point. It probably should've occurred to me that servicing the request is the expensive part, not actually transmitting the data. (In my defence, I've done very little back-end work--not really my area.) I guess I'll just set that more complicated plan aside until someone asks me to make a mobile version of this thing and I want to save them some data charges. And hey, maybe by then we'll have that new /metadata parameter!

Thanks for the info!

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