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1a -- you aren't just trusting this site, you are trusting everyone since the API keys can be found within the source.

3 -- it is even simpler than that; the source can be found on github. At the very least, services such as this are useful as you are still developing.

For the viability of a commercial version of this project, I think the biggest question is: why would somebody use this instead of Yahoo's YQL?



no commercial version planned - I threw it up because it was something I was going to use (to build hackerhours.org), and figured it would be useful to others as well


1a) not all API calls require a secret


True, but irrelevant.

Note that I was responding to "I won't trust you with my API keys"

On a tangent, while this is a problem for this particular website, the issue is solveable. (See YQL.)




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