Help! Simple String Storage API?
Surely in the vast extremes of the internet someone or some team has this feature. I'm looking for a web api which allows me to store and retrieve simple strings of text. It doesnt need to be thousands of lines, but perhaps say as much as a blog post per record. Is there anything like that out there? Preferably with a REST interface and some ability to read/write and output JSON. I know about Amazon S3 - but isnt that more for storing files? Basically I want to be able to store a little bit of information about a player in a game and allow other sites to read/write to that record....
posted by Andrew @ 12:36 AM
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Hi Andrew,
S3 is as simple for storing text as files. Actually the samples provided by Amazon do just that: save a string and try to read it back.
So it could do the trick for the need you describe.
If you set the files/strings to public, then any web-site could access them through a simple http URI.
The only issue is that of giving write access to other web-sites. You need to authenticate the access for that to happen, and you should not give your S3 secret keys to anyone.
You could do that using 2 methods:
1- you could set-up your own server to write the data after doing your own authentication
--> that would make your server a critical bottleneck
2- use the system included in S3 where you give access to a set of other Amazon accounts
--> that implies that the other web-sites using your system create their own amazon account and get authorized by you
I hope this helps.
And by the way, thanks for the nice review of Pictogame ;-)
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