What do you suggest to use instead of Google Poly?

[luc4leone]

Since Google shut down Poly https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635 it's impossible to follow Chapter 3 verbatim.

Ben what do you suggest? Do you have another similar API to suggest? Or maybe some other tip?

Thanks! Your book is great so far 🥇

[luc4leone]

It seems Google didn't shut down the API, since putting this in the browser console works fine, returning back an object.

const url = 'https://poly.googleapis.com/v1/assets?keywords=parrot&format=OBJ&key=AIzaSyDco09I8HAL-f4LrkSIOJVqZvqLpzMVTLA';
const request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open( 'GET', url, true );
request.addEventListener( 'load', (event) => {
  console.log(JSON.parse( event.target.response ));
});
request.send();

But also, I got to the point in the chapter where you suggest to test:

baseuri="http://localhost:8080/assets.json"

So we can test the component by fetching data from the local server (there's a copy of assets here in this repo https://github.com/bengfarrell/webcomponentsinaction/blob/master/chapter3/assets.json).

[bengfarrell]

Yeah, I did want something like this to show off fetching data from a public place and the Poly API was perfect since it returns data and images. But I knew any API would be fairly unsafe given that they change after time, or in this case completely shut down. I think probably the responses you're getting are cached on their end, or read only because they did shut down the service from what I recall. Anyway, all this is exactly why I have that JSON file there. Glad you got things working!

[luc4leone]

Thanks Ben! Really enjoying the book.

[bengfarrell]

Thanks! Glad to hear it!