6 space-related APIs to check out ahead of the Artemis I launch
The week of NASA launching Artemis I is a good time to check a few of the many APIs that make tons of raw space data accessible for anyone to use.
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An API is a layer, hiding the confusing details of a system from everyone else. More interestingly, they open a wealth of knowledge and resources to anyone willing to consume them!
How to deploy your own RequestBin in under 5 minutes
If you need to consume a webhook from another service, or verify the payload being sent from your own REST API endpoint, RequestBin can help. It intercepts and displays the contents of any call made to it. Here's how to deploy your own instance in just a few minutes.
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Searching historical newspapers with the Chronicling America API
I've got a few old newspapers from the 1930s and 1940s, and find them fascinating. And so I was excited to stumble on the Library of Congress's Chronicling America API, which 'provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages'. Let's check it out.
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Using the IP Geolocation API to find info about an IP address
Last year I caught an article about a simple, free service called ipify that returns your IP address. It became so popular the author soon found himself dealing with billions of requests per month! Here's a look at that API and the IP Geolocation API that it spawned.
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Querying Amazon's product details with the Amazon Product Advertising API
This API is allows you to query the Amazon catalog, either with keywords or by targeting specific products, and extract details about those products in order to promote (advertise) them. I'm hoping that the question/answer area is one of those details that can be extracted, but we'll see.
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Access yesterday's Internet with the Wayback Machine API
The Wayback Machine, a product of the Internet Archive, is an ambitious tool that's been documenting websites for many years. It's useful when a page you need is removed by the original author. Let's take a look at their API and how we might make use of it.
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A look at the many ways APIs can authorize access
After writing about so many APIs and having to figure out the auth process for each, I wanted to compare and contrast how some of these services approach authentication and authorization, and why they might've decided to do it the way they did.
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Generating random passwords, numbers and GUIDs with the PasswordRandom API
The PasswordRandom API provides random values - and not just passwords as the name would seem to suggest. It also generates GUIDs, random numbers, characters, etc.
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