flickr-store, store arbitrary data with your 1TB Flickr cloud
A neat hack from Ryan LeFevre on Flickr’s API. Someone joked about storing files on Flickr since they now offer 1TB, and I thought it was hilarious enough to try github.com/meltingice/fli…— Ryan...
View ArticleSnaphax – creative freedom or unlawful code?
Yesterday, on HackerNews, Thomas Lackner asked the question if he should remove the library he created to consume the Snapchat ‘API,’ upon request from Snapchat themselves. From Snapchat: Hi Thomas,...
View Article#97: API wrappers, Ruby and open source with Drew Blas
Adam Stacoviak and Andrew Thorp talk with Drew Blas of Chargify about API wrappers, Ruby, open source, and more. Listen to this episode on 5by5! We moved the show to 5by5! You can tune-in LIVE on...
View ArticleJSON API now has a MIME type
If you hadn’t heard, JSON API is a format that myself and Yehuda Katz have been persuing to help standardize APIs. It came out of the work done on ember-data and active_model_serializers. We’ve been...
View ArticlePrototype JSON APIs with Fortune.js
If you hadn’t heard, JSON API is a format for building awesome APIs on top of JSON. You can see other posts tagged with JSON API here. Recently, a new project related to JSON API was released:...
View ArticleMeteoTester collects and tests the accuracy weather APIs
If you’re a fan of open weather data, check out MeteoTester — it plans to collect and test weather forecasts published by any meteorological data source. At the moment, it consumes and tests data from...
View ArticleDevDocs puts web API docs in one easy-to-use place
Thibaut Courouble’s DevDocs aggregates many web-related API docs in to a fast, organized, and searchable interface. It supports all your favorite web languages/frameworks, has fuzzy search, keyboard...
View ArticleGive any SQL database a REST interface with Sandman
Let’s say you have a SQL database. You might wish it had a REST interface and a nice admin UI. That used to mean writing a bunch of code but now with Sandman it’s a one liner. Zero boilerplate code is...
View ArticleThumbor is a self hosted thumbnail-as-a-service
Thumbor is pretty impressive. Not only does it take something like thumbnailing, which is always painful, and makes it easy. It has cool image operation out of the box. It also features a VERY smart...
View ArticleGenerate 4 language bindings for your API in one Go
You just built an API, and want to make sure everyone can use it. Building libraries in every language isn’t only going to be hard, its going to take a lot of time. Time you don’t have. This is where...
View ArticleMGTwitterEngine – Objective-C Twitter library for the iPhone
If you need to integrate Twitter into your iPhone app or build your own Twitter client, you might check out MGTwitterEngine from Matt Gemmell. MGTwitterEngine consumes the Twitter XML API and supports...
View Articlejsawk – Powerful JSON querying on SpiderMonkey
As JSON becomes the lingua franca of web-based APIs, you might find yourself needing a way to query large chunks of data in JSON format. jsawk from Micha Niskin provides awk-like functionality: cat...
View ArticleTwurl – OAuth-enabled curl for the Twitter API
OAuth is cool but developing with OAuth can be a pain. Inspired by curl and Hurl.it (featured on Episode 0.1.5 with Leah Culver), the Twitter team has realeased a couple of tools to make developing...
View ArticleOpen Graph – Ruby library for Facebook’s new API
[Updated]: Thanks to Michael’s correction in the comments below and more caffeine it’s apparent that Michael released two entirely unrelated Facebook gems yesterday. Also, as Mike points out, the...
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jquery-facebook-multi-friend-selector: A jQuery Facebook Multi-Friend...
jQuery Facebook Multi-Friend Selector is a jQuery plugin created by Mike Brevoort that stands as an alternative for Facebook Multi-Friend Selection user interface that uses the Facebook Graph API. No...
View ArticleQuickly reduce the amount of data your node API returns
When designing an API, it’s easy to forget that not everyone has a cable modem. What if a client could easily request exactly the data it needed. That is what JSON Mask aims to do. This is a tiny...
View ArticleDon’t let API changes catch you off guard with API Changelog
API Changelog is a great new service from API UX that monitors the docs for public APIs and notifies you of changes. Don’t see an API you rely upon in their catalog? Request that they add it here....
View ArticlePraxis: a Ruby framework that takes a different approach to creating APIs
RightScale recently unveiled their new Ruby framework. They call it Praxis and it takes a unique approach to building APIs. From the announcement: With Praxis you create an API by going through the...
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