第三方 API 集成 - 如何构建数据库

Question

In my app I am integrating different third party APIs, like Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Mailchimp, etc... Each third party API has specific settings I can ask to the user to apply during the sync with my app.

I have two options:

1. I make unique table like "integration" where I store all connections. Here I am afraid I will need to add many columns to track settings for different APIs (contact privacy, calendar id, Mailchimp audience id...etc...)
2. I make a table for each third party API integrated in order to track separately all relevant setting through dedicated columns. Here I may have many tables when I reach many different third party APIs.

I would think the second is the best, but I need your help to structure my database as per best practices to be scalable.

Thanks!

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is clearly against Google's Terms of Service, specifically Section 5 e. Prohibitions on Content :

Unless expressly permitted by the content owner or by applicable law, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do the following with content returned from the APIs:

1. Scrape, build databases, or otherwise create permanent copies of such content, or keep cached copies longer than permitted by the cache header;
2. [...]

And there are very good legal and moral reasons for that. So the answer is actually not to do it and use the APIs every time.