Ask HN: As a Developer, what API would you like to use, but does not exist?

Can you explain? What would you send, a string? What would the response be? Can you please provide an example?

I'll look for a source...

fits the bill?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

Is there software that runs locally on your machine?

I would like to have someone (a Java or Kotlin developer) take over https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer and rework it. It's a project that intends to do exactly this. You enter a url, it finds a search box, enters the user's search query, uses single-layer neural nets and text munging to extract the search results, and then separates each result into a few fields (url, date, title, summary).

But it was written as a complete app and so is of limited use to most people. If it were remade to be a library it would have much more utility.

Beware there are lots of ugly regexes and terrible hacks. This is html afterall, the Cthulhu way.

Recently re-licensed from AGPL to Apache 2.0.

Also my time is busy on other things. I would be able to answer some questions occasionally but largely I can't provide much help.

How would an API control Bash? Is the Bash shell running on your machine?

Regarding a real time stock price API, I thought of this as well. I will look into it. If I can find a good source of data this seems like a great feature.