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Reminds me of datasette, which does similar things for SQLite (and much more, too). Docs at https://docs.datasette.io/en/stable/json_api.html

Example: Retrieve JSON for https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/polls/president_prima... simply with https://covid-19.datasettes.com/covid/ny_times_us_counties.j... (I added a filter for Texas)

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Big problems with the design of the response here, too. Example: https://fivethirtyeight.datasettes.com/polls/president_prima...

The schema is ad-hoc and requires a human to interpret it. Link relations (at the bottom) are expressed the wrong way: a machine could understand the "next" or "license" relations, but not an arbitrary "next_url" or "license_url" JSON key.

Recommendation: adopt relevant IETF/IANA standards and reformulate the response to take advantage of them.

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