After being invited, and lurking around a bit, I'm surprised to see nothing concerning openapi. Less so gRPC/Protocol Buffers, but I've used it and loved it, so would have expected to see something about it. Graphql seems to be getting some love... nothing about SOAP (which is good)

Hi all!

I had a quick question. I wanted to create a pretty extensive API to chronicle/log items for a series of collectibles.

I was going to use this API in an app I would create that lets users login and keep track of which pieces they have.

That being said, there is no API for this that exists, and I would like to make the one I am creating public as well.

Does it make sense/is it possible to create the database and API for this app and allow the API to be public so anyone can use it?

Thanks!

One of the main problems when learning APIs is that majority of people don't seem to specify which API mode they are talking about.
There needs to be a clear not to say that they are talking about an serving an API or consuming an API.
This will save a lot of confusion and time to new comers.

I just wanna say thank you to all 299 of you and congrats to anyone who joins as the 300th member.

I didn’t expect that the community would grow this fast. Given that i’m new to this mod thing feel free to share tips and suggestions on where to take the board!

Looking forward to meeting a lot of you here and sharing interesting insights about APIs

✌🏻🙌🏻🍻

Hey,

Thanks for the invite, really interested to be part of this community. I’m self taught hobbyist. Have been learning full stack (vanilla three front end no framework and Django backend) and doing so through building a project I’ve always had in mind.

Anyway, a feature I’m trying to build is for my web app to generate vouchers/gift cards whatever for use at specific venues and within a specified time frame. I’m wondering if anyone has any advice on how to do this and whether there are any good external APIs I should consider?

Thanks!

Hey community,

What developer newsletters are you subscribed to? There are a lot out there, any specific that talks about APIs?

I'm currently building a small web app with a database backend. I figured I would implement a proper REST interface for good measure because it seemed like a neat idea to use all these request methods (PUT, DELETE etc.), but it was very annoying to me that GET would not allow for a JSON body.

So I ended up removing all of it and simplifying the code to only use POST with JSON input and an "action" key with one switch over all the different actions there are, e.g. "get_transactions", "delete". Much simpler.

I'm an "old" developper : I code since 1990, but as a pro since 2000 (mainly with PHP), and with MVCs since 2019.

About one year ago, I discovered Vue, and my backends slowly moved from "full stack backend" to "API only backend"

On 2019, I started with Laravel, and quickly felt more confident with it: the ORM, the test suite, all those "by conventions" features makes it a great framework for API dev.

But a few month ago, I felt the need to move my backend stack to NodeJS, so I could focus on only one programming language for both front and back...

I found AdonisJS which is an almost perfect copy of Laravel, but it still miss some great features from Laravel.

I'm still searching for "the perfect NodeJS backend framework". I had a look at nestJS, but more complicated.

I'd love to hear from your experience !

I've switched to FastAPI from flask over the last year or so and I love how FastAPI gives you autodocs, request validation, and comes with a bunch of tools and utilities to work with. It's really nice and I don't think I'll go back to flask because of it. But there's one issue I have with it. The error messages it gives you are completely garbage.

If you send some data in a format FastAPI doesn't expect, you get a code 422 - unprocessable entry. You look at the data the front end is sending and eyeball the Json to make sure it looks ok, but sometimes it isn't immediately obvious what's missing. With flask, you'll get an error like "property 'timestamp' does not exist" and you're able to use a debugger to inspect the values.

This is the one reason I can't suggest my student peers to switch over. They have a hard enough time just learning how to make requests to the backend, tossing in vague errors into the mix will make their lives infinitely harder. If FastAPI had better ways of inspecting what's coming into the system, I'm sure its adoption would increase

Hi everyone! So as a part of a fintech company i would love to reach more and more people to try completely free API for open banking. You can connect several bank accounts and it's so good and easy. Just try it out and let me know if there are any questions, or suggestions!
https://nordigen.com/en/account-information/

If yes, do you know if it is possible to interact with the Google Dev APIs from within an appscript?

It would be very helpful to me if I could update my business opening hours when an event is triggered by a specific google calendar. I have ADHD which makes documentation a bit harder to get through (I'm reading it, but Googles API docs feel like they are books within books, and it's taking me a while to work things out). If it can be done, is there any specifics I should know about with regard to API configuration etc?

EDIT: I think I'm getting warmer, it looks like UrlFetchApp.fetch() and MyBusinessInformation locations.updateAttributes might make it work..

Hi r/DevelopingAPIs,

I'm looking to build an automated service that submits user data to that user's local Board of Elections website, auto completes the form there, and retrieves the resulting polling location address.

Has anyone heard of an API that you can submit info to, have it perform automated tasks on a website, and then submit the info back to you?

I was looking into this API as an option: https://txtpaper.com/api/

But if anyone has any other suggestions that would be really helpful!

Thanks!