Web APIs

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API is a communication interface to enable communication b/w various programs, softwares, computers, web application over variou networks

1. How to quickly prototype APIs?
   1. https://apiblueprint.org/
2. How to design an API?
3. How to document APIs?
4. How to crawl/walk over APIs?
   1. scrapy python
5. API Inspirations - steal like an artist
   1. https://developer.github.com/v3/
   2. https://stripe.com/docs/api
   3. https://api.slack.com/
   4. https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs
6. Public APIs API

REST constraints

1. uniform interface
2. client -server
3. stateless
4. cachable
5. Layerred system
6. Executable code - optional
   1. C - POST or PUT
   2. R - GET
   3. U - PUT or POST
   4. D - DELETE

Application Programming Interfaces provides means to connect a URL to a available web-resource

• Postman can generate and publish APIs documentation
• Using AppScript to capture and collecct information in sheets

Usages

• Displaying random geeky, math jokes, motivational quotes
• Search iTunes store for music
• GIPHY Stickers
• Pokemon API
• Get current ISS location
• Get Google FIT data to spreadsheet
• Which technologies a website is using?

Making promise based API calls from sheets!

Use flush() to apply all pending Spreadsheet changes.

Google APIs

• https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/#step3&apisSelect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fauth%2Fdrive&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.googleapis.com%2Fdrive%2Fv3%2Fabout%3Ffields%3D*&content_type=application%2Fjson&http_method=GET&useDefaultOauthCred=unchecked&oauthEndpointSelect=Google&oauthAuthEndpointValue=https%3A%2F%2Faccounts.google.com%2Fo%2Foauth2%2Fv2%2Fauth&oauthTokenEndpointValue=https%3A%2F%2Foauth2.googleapis.com%2Ftoken&includeCredentials=unchecked&accessTokenType=bearer&autoRefreshToken=unchecked&accessType=offline&prompt=consent&response_type=code&wrapLines=on
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32076503/using-postman-to-access-oauth-2-0-google-apis

curl 'https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/about?fields=*' -H 'authority: www.googleapis.com' -H 'pragma: no-cache' -H 'cache-control: no-cache' -H 'accept: application/json, text/plain, */*' -H 'origin: http://localhost:3000' -H 'authorization: https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/about' -H 'sec-fetch-dest: empty' -H 'user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.149 Safari/537.36' -H 'sec-fetch-site: cross-site' -H 'sec-fetch-mode: cors' -H 'referer: https://www.googleapis.com/' -H 'accept-language: en-US,en;q=0.9' --compressed

Footnotes

[1]: Some cool and funny APIs to work with [^2]: