847624 - Create an API for retrieving the most popular search queries

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Marketplace Graveyard :: API, defect, P4)

Description

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Previously https://github.com/mozilla/fireplace/issues/37

This currently lives at https://marketplace.firefox.com/search/suggestions?q=dictionary&cat=apps

Also worth noting that doesn't exist in flue yet (fireplace's flask-based mock API).

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

How would this be different from a search API? Just less data?

Comment 2

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

This bug is on hold for now.

Comment 3

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Just id, name, url:

[
    {
        "id": "366349", 
        "name": "Dictionary", 
        "url": "/app/dictionary/?src=mkt-ss"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "397042", 
        "name": "Dictionary (by Dictionary.com)", 
        "url": "/app/dictionarycom/?src=mkt-ss"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "408820", 
        "name": "Translator by Dictionary.com", 
        "url": "/app/translator-by-dictionarycom/?src=mkt-ss"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "409044", 
        "name": "Quotes (by Dictionary.com)", 
        "url": "/app/quotes-by-dictionarycom/?src=mkt-ss"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "409046", 
        "name": "Dictionary.com Spanish!", 
        "url": "/app/dictionarycom-spanish/?src=mkt-ss"
    }, 
    {
        "id": "408822", 
        "name": "Thesaurus.com", 
        "url": "/app/thesauruscom/?src=mkt-ss"
    }
]

However, you may want to hold off on this one - or ask UX first. Basta and Maria were talking, and they seem to want to move away from name-based search suggestions and instead towards a static list of search terms (gathered from past queries or something - I don't know).

Comment 4

[Christopher Van Wiemeersch [:cvan]]

Maria can take care of this in bug 847625.

Comment 5

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

The API needs to return a list containing the most popular search queries for a given time period.

Parameters:
- Time range (X to present)
- Output limit

The API should not allow a limit greater than 1000.

Comment 6

[Matt Basta [:basta]]

Closing until we have proper specs/mocks (see bug 847625)