Basically, I had just finished coding a Twitter bot called @BreakingCasting which posts fake movie remake casting announcements. I really liked using the TMDB API for that so I figured I'd make another small project along the lines of movies/actors/Hollywood until I came up with something more substantive.
I'm pretty sure I came up with this Wow API in the shower and figured it'd be fun and easy - it ended up being fun and tedious. I started working on it on Valentine's Day, finished in early March. The main motivation to finish was my current project, Hollywoodle (https://hollywoodle.ml/), which I refused to start until the Wow API was done.
Yes! I obviously took a lot of the general front-end design and CSS formatting from the Chuck Norris API - that's why I credited it in the GitHub repo!
Honestly, an endorsement by Owen Wilson would be amazing. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know how to reach him even if I wanted to. If anyone has any way for me to personally reach out to Owen Wilson, though, that would be dope.
100% manual effort, you're right. Took me about three weeks to compile all the clips and data in my spare time and upload them all to Contentful. I'm aware of three clips that others had told me to make a bit longer - I Spy, Drillbit Taylor (second wow), Shanghai Knights (third wow.) If there are others, feel free to let me know, the more input, the better.
I'm pretty sure I came up with this Wow API in the shower and figured it'd be fun and easy - it ended up being fun and tedious. I started working on it on Valentine's Day, finished in early March. The main motivation to finish was my current project, Hollywoodle (https://hollywoodle.ml/), which I refused to start until the Wow API was done.