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Ask HN: Is there a service that allows attaching metadata to a web resource?

by torarnv on 3/10/18, 8:52 PM with 6 comments

Say I want to create a Chrome extension to let me tag YouTube videos (with more advanced tags than what the built in playlists can provide). Where do I store these tags? I could of course use YouTube's own "datastructures" such as playlists and the notes for each playlist item, but that quickly gets hairy/hacky. Is there some kind of DBaaS that easily allows me to tie metadata to each video, with a simple REST API?

  • by vitovito on 3/10/18, 10:13 PM

    Hypothes.is supports open and public annotations of arbitrary URLs, including tags and comments, but the intent is that all tags and annotations are public.

    It does have an API, and can work via bookmarklets, or by linking to pages by prepending https://via.hypothes.is/

  • by torarnv on 3/10/18, 9:02 PM

    I guess https://firebase.google.com/ or something similar is what I'm looking for :)

  • by torarnv on 3/10/18, 8:59 PM

    Note that the data should be sharable with other users, hence not using the built in Chrome extension storage.