API Development: The Complete Guide for Building APIs Without Code

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WrapAPI

#No Code #Spreadsheets #API 2 social mentions

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X (Twitter)

Twitter started out with a huge focus on their API. Developers could get almost any data from Twitter they wanted - trends, hashtags, user stats - and they built some really cool stuff with it. This massive amount of open data and the tools people built actually attracted more users to Twitter. Companies could easily hook into the Twitter API to let users share their content on Twitter without leaving their site, and Twitter in turn got even more content on the platform.

#Social Networks #Social Network #Microblogging 883 social mentions

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Strapi

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 310 social mentions

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Sheetsu

#Google Sheets #API Tools #No Code 2 social mentions

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restdb.io

#Developer Tools #App Development #No Code 5 social mentions

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Redis

First, an API needs a data source. In most cases, this will be a database like MySQL, MongoDB, or Redis (don’t worry if you don’t know what those are, they’re basically just ways that programmers store data), but it could also be something simpler like a text file or spreadsheet. The API’s data source can usually be updated through the API itself, but it might be updated independently if you want your API to be “read-only”.

#Key-Value Database #NoSQL Databases #Databases 185 social mentions

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React

You want to use modern front-end frameworks like React or Angular.

#Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #JavaScript Framework 775 social mentions

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MailChimp

Mailchimp is one of the most popular email marketing tools out there, and it’s my personal favorite. It’s really easy to use, they have a generous free tier for small mailing lists, and they seem to always be the first when offering new features that are great for email senders. They also have a well-documented API that encourages even more interesting use cases.

#Email Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms #Email Marketing Automation 85 social mentions

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JSONFormatter.org

Obviously, this is impossible for humans to make sense of, but it’s actually formatted in “JSON”, a very common and easy-to-parse format for computers. To see the data in a more readable way, you can format it using a JSON formatter.

#Development #Image Optimisation #Image Editing 24 social mentions

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Holiday API

We’ll be using the Holiday API, so go to holidayapi.com and sign up for a free API key.

#Developer Tools #API #Holidays Api 2 social mentions

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DISQUS

When comments are powered by Disqus it means that the website uses the Disqus API to store their comments so they don’t have to manage them, remove spam, or write lots of code themselves. APIs can save developers a lot of time.

#Social Networks #Project Management #Commenting Service 37 social mentions

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AYLIEN News API

While many APIs are a bonus or supplemental feature, some companies are built as API-first services. Aylien is a text analysis and natural language processing service that doesn’t offer a user interface at all - they just sell access to their API.

#News #APIs #API Tools 6 social mentions

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Angular.io

You want to use modern front-end frameworks like React or Angular.

#JavaScript Framework #JS Library #Web Development Tools 284 social mentions