api - Grant Winney

23 Results tagged on "api":

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!

Jan 5, 2020

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....

api newspapers history

Mar 3, 2019

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....

api ipaddress geolocation

Feb 12, 2019

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....

api internet archives

Jun 24, 2018

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....

api authorization authentication security

Jun 19, 2018

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....

api randomness numbers

Feb 6, 2018

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....

api google googlebooks metadata

Jan 30, 2018

Managing your books and shelves with the Google Books API

The Google Books API provides access to Google Books, which lets you search for any book and, at a bare minimium, see meta data about it. Depending on copyright status, you might also be able to see sample pages or read the entire book. You can also buy books....

api programming

Jan 24, 2018

What is an API wrapper and how do I write one?

When you find an API to use in your app, you'll need to access it in a specific language - not always an easy or straightforward task. As long as you're doing all that work, why keep it to yourself? Let's look at creating an API wrapper that you can share with others!...

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