api - Grant Winney (Page 2)

Jun 19, 2018

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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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Feb 07, 2018

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Managing your posts, tags, and users with the Ghost Blog API

The Ghost API provides access to your blog's posts, tags, and users. You can get items, as well as create them. Before accessing anything though, you'll need several pieces of data, depending on your blog settings and whether you're trying to get data or create it. Let's see what we can do with it....

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Feb 06, 2018

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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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Jan 30, 2018

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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....

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Jan 24, 2018

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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!...

Jan 22, 2018

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Accessing weather and climate data with the Planet OS API

Planet OS seems to have found a great number of services that provide scientific/weather/earth related data, regularly download a small sample set from each, and provide a way to access the data through their own API. Let's see what they've got and what we can do with it!...

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Jan 05, 2018

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Services to help you determine what a REST endpoint is posting

UPDATE 2: In February 2019, I got an email from Tod, who sent me the following message that RequestBin has...

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Jan 01, 2018

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Accessing game data with the Internet Game Database (IGDB) API

Wrapping up my search for 15 APIs in 15 Days, I found (completely randomly) the IGDB API. The Internet Game Database is a community-driven site that collects and shares information about games and game-related data....

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