What is running, and what is not.
This page is written by hand and dated. When the API opens it becomes automatic and reports itself; until then a page that claimed to be live would be the first thing on this site that was not true.
The API answers. It is published at
api.aurith.ca, it serves articles in five languages, and
every route on it refuses a caller without a key. Three plans are priced on
Services. What the API has no way of doing is taking
your money: billing is not connected, so a key cannot be bought, and the site is
not open yet. Keys exist and are issued by hand meanwhile —
ask.
Eighty sources polled continuously, day and night. This has been running since before there was any thought of selling it.
Items are read as they arrive and written up as full articles, unattended, around the clock. Two stories every five minutes, each in every language — slowly, because the same machine is doing other work.
Five, written continuously: English, French, Spanish, Punjabi and Hindi.
Six endpoints, at api.aurith.ca,
every one of them behind a key. Docs describes them, and
now describes something you can call rather than something planned.
Nothing takes a payment. Prices are set and are on Services; no card can be entered against them yet, and this is the one thing standing between this page and the word open.
What this page will report.
Not a green tick. The instrument behind this API keeps a written record of everything it measures, and this page will do the same: numbers, dated, including the ones that are worse than last month.
- Median and 90th-percentile latency Publication to held, over the last day and the last thirty. The 90th matters more than the median and is the one usually left off a status page.
- Sources answering How many of the eighty responded on their last poll, and which did not. A named source that has gone quiet is more useful than an uptime percentage.
- Requests served and refused Including the rate-limited ones, because a limit nobody publishes is a limit customers discover.
- Incidents, written up afterwards What broke, what it cost, and what was changed so it does not happen again. Dated and kept, not deleted once resolved.
One person, one machine.
Aurith is run by one person in Canada. That means changes land quickly and it also means there is no overnight rota. When the API opens, the uptime it can honestly offer will be stated as a number on this page before anyone is asked to pay for it — not implied by an all-green dashboard.
If something is wrong and this page has not caught up, write to api@aurith.ca. That reaches the person who can fix it.