The public API
Returns specimens. They will not be interesting.
GET /api/specimensEvery published specimen, newest first, with its catalog number, verdict, critic, and score. The fields are as printed.
GET /api/specimens/{slug}One specimen, in full: body, findings, and plate included. Requesting a specimen that does not exist returns a 404 and a brief apology.
Terms of use
Responses are cached for five minutes. The specimens do not change often. Or at all.
The API is read-only. There is no POST; nothing here changes quickly enough to warrant one. There is no authentication; nothing here is worth guarding. There are no versions; the API, like its subject matter, intends to stay exactly as it is.
Readers wishing to submit a specimen may do so the ordinary way, on the front page.