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 Spring-Boot based api backend for [getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev](https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev)
 
+## :warning: Deprecation notice
+
+As of october 2022, this api went to status deprecated as no more new data had to be scraped. At the moment this api is not reachable anymore as
+[getmydeck-app](https://github.com/chrisingenhaag/getmydeck-app) catches the api route and redirects to the [all queue statistics](https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev/statistics).
+The frontend holds the last static copy of the data for all queues.
+
 
 ## build and deploy