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api amazon

Oct 12, 2018

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....

api internet archives historical data

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 comparison

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 programming ghostblog

Feb 07, 2018

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....

api data programming password generator

Feb 06, 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 ebooks google googlebooks programming

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 api wrapper 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!...

api data meteorological environmental programming

Jan 22, 2018

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!...

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.