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How to Discover Channel IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 3 of this tutorial, we continue to extend our code and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
04-18-2018
How to Discover Playlist IDs with the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 2 of this tutorial, we'll extend our code from part one and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
04-17-2018
How to Build a GraphQL API with Rails in 20 minutes API University
GraphQL is seen by some as the beginning of the end for RESTful APIs. GraphQL lets you get all the data you want in the way you want from an API while only ever calling one endpoint. But where to get started? Scott Domes over at MuseFind will take you from zero to hero in only twenty minutes.
04-01-2018
How to Build a Shopify Application with Node.js and Express API University
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Shopify app from scratch with Node. You’ll learn how to request an access token from a shop and then make an API call. First, you’ll need to create a public HTTPS address for the purposes of authentication.
01-21-2018
How To Get YouTube Playlist Contents from the YouTube Data API API University
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In this tutorial, we'll review the YouTube Data API portal and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
01-19-2018
How To Hide API Keys in HTML5 Storage For Public Code Samples API University
We recently wrote about a post from CodePen.io that suggested a way of keeping API keys private when publicly sharing code samples. This time, we've gone back to that idea, given a try, and dogfooded it. We used JSBin to not only show how it works, we've embedded the "bin" in our tutorial.
01-17-2018
How to Intercept API calls of Your iOS App API University
API documentation, as we all know, is rarely comprehensive and almost never up-to-date. An alternative way to get to know an API is by intercepting API calls from a mobile app and examining how they work. Here Jan Schwoebel over at his blog will show you how you can easily do that for iOS apps.
01-15-2018
How To Use Google's Cloud Speech API to Transcribe a Large Audio File API University
In this, developer-blogger Alex Kras shows us how to overcome the 60 second audio file limitation of the free tier of Google's Cloud Speech API by taking a longer audio file, breaking it up into short chunks, and then cycling through those chunks to make a complete transcription.
01-04-2018
How to Implement a GraphQL API in Rails API University
GraphQL was created by Facebook to solve nagging issues with RESTful APIs like having to make multiple roundtrips to the server to fetch required data. Tech titans like GitHub and Shopify are already using it in production but many businesses have yet to take the leap.
12-09-2017
How to Use the Microsoft Bot Builder SDK to Build a Bot API University
In this Microsoft tutorial the contributors share the steps for building a bot with their SDK and testing it with the Framework Emulator. Initially, you will need to install Node.js, create a folder for your bot, form a command prompt, and run the npm command nodejs npm init.
11-11-2017
How to Build a Photo Gallery with the Cosmic JS API API University
Would you like to add a photo gallery to an application with the help of Vue.JS framework? It could be useful to showcase products, demonstrate what a service can do for the users, or serve as a call to action.
Vue.JS framework facilitates building user interfaces on the web.
11-05-2017
What is GraphQL and Why Does it Matter? API University
GraphQL, the Facebook-backed open source tech, is making waves across the internet right now. Some people claim it’s going to revolutionise API design and leave REST in the dust. But what is it exactly and why the fuss? James Governor over at Redmonk explains.
10-29-2017
How to Write a Hypermedia API Client in Ruby API University
A hypermedia API is an API that contains links in the responses. In this tutorial, you’ll learn what such an API looks like and why you might want to create one. Ismael Celis over at Thoughtbot will take you thru building a generic Ruby client written according to Hypermedia design patterns.
10-08-2017
How to Do GitHub API Authentication Using OAuth 2.0 API University
OAuth Newbies can find it tricky initially. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to get started with OAuth 2.0 while avoiding all the fiddly parts around handling tokens. The folks over at Insomnia will show you how to authenticate an API client for the GitHub API with OAuth 2.0 and the Insomnia app.
09-24-2017
How to Turn Your Data into an API with FaunaDB and GraphQL API University
Microservices are all the rage these days but accessing data from multiple microservices can be a drag. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to use GraphQL to make fetching and manipulating data from multiple sources easy as pie. Chris Anderson over at the Fauna blog will show you how.
09-03-2017
How Image Tagging APIs from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Clarifai Stack Up API University
A few years ago the best computer vision algorithms were the preserve of a few neural net researchers. Now, anyone can gain access to the best object detection algorithms in the world through public APIs. Wayne Walls, CTO at Filestack, put four of the best through their paces over at their blog.
08-21-2017
How to Use Field Masks With Google APIs For Filtered Responses API University
Often API responses give you way more data than you ever wanted. Normally this isn’t a problem but sometimes you’d really rather receive just the fields you want in the payload to avoid putting strain on your app. Wesley Chun shows you how to do exactly that with Google APIs and field masks.
08-20-2017
How to Hide API Keys When Building Web Apps On CodePen API University
If you've ever used CodePen to prototype your own web apps or to closely inspect and fork someone else's code, then you know that one thing CodePen can't do is hide the API keys of any APIs that your app consumes in the process of doing whatever your app does. But now, there's a workaround.
08-14-2017
How to Incorporate Feedback Loops Into Your API Design API University
‘Move fast and break things’ might be a good philosophy for web app development but it’s not so simple with API design. Client apps rely on your APIs. You can’t just release a radical new version every few months that breaks all previous integrations.
07-30-2017
How to Turn Existing Web Pages Into RESTful APIs With Import.io API University
Getting structured data out of web pages — often referred to as "web scraping" — is a real need, particularly for people whose job it is to prepare and analyze the information that's available in web pages. Meeting this need is right up the alley of a data extraction tool, such as Import.io.
07-05-2017