🚀 Product Update: API Docs, Related Searches, & more

Our October Week 3 product update that we share internally with the Crew team, keeping them up to date on the product changes to Unsplash over the past week.

We’ll keep it quick since there isn’t a ton of stuff here that you’ll necessarily find interesting, as it was one of those weeks where we worked on a bunch of stuff that either sets us up for upcoming weeks or isn’t really headline grabbing stuff.

• Kirill Zakharov updated the API documentation to be more useable and readable, including links for all headings, a fixed sidebar, code highlighting, scroll-able code blocks, and better hierarchy. Since we use the API documentation ourselves to build Unsplash, we can already say it’s 100x better.

Much better.

• Aaron Klaassen added the last major activity for the following feed: releasing a photo. That means all activities are now being sent to Stream, including liking a photo, adding a photo to a collection, a curator creating a curated collection, and new photos being released by photographers. Next step: aggregating the activities and sending them back via an API endpoint.
• Naoufal Kadhom continued SEO improvements to the site, including adding related searches and canonicals.

Related searches now appear on the search’s photos page.

• Timothy worked on improving Unsplash’s data pipeline to support realtime event aggregation using Amazon Kinesis Firehose. As we move more of our data from Keen to our data pipeline, supporting batch processing and realtime processing of events is necessary for user-facing features, like realtime download counts.

TTU: 5.70M minutes (+13.63% over the same week a month ago)