ditado-api

Public API to serve ditados, i.e., popular Portuguese sayings.

Why?

Github Actions had just come out and I wanted to learn all about it, namely how to automate deployments via Heroku.

Fetching ditados is an easy enough use case. Also inspired by this.

Update: since the original release Heroku has decomissioned their free tier. We're now using fly.io, and Github Actions has considerably matured. I now use this to play around.

API

Public REST API available at https://ditado-api.fly.dev

• GET /ditados - Fetch all entries
• GET /ditados?q=pequenino - Search for a ditado matching a particular word
• GET /ditados/random - Fetch a random ditado.
• GET /ditados/generate - 🆕 Create a new ditado! Inspired by ditado-generator

Contribute

• Fork this repo and edit ditados.json;
• Add a ditado, including what it means under the meaning field:

{
   "ditados":[
      (...)
      {
         "content":"Your ditado",
         "meaning":"What it means"
      }
   ]
}

• Submit a PR and celebrate 🎉