Ask HN: What's the best Web based API you ever used?

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by orenbarzilai • 11 years ago

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We are designing an API for one of our products and would love to learn from the best. As a developer, what's the best (any why) Web based API you ever used?

manidoraisamy• 11 years ago

Parse. I like APIs you can copy/paste into javascript and build an MVP and worry about fail-proof server-side integration for production later.

wingerlang• 11 years ago

Another vote for this one, felt like you were up and running within minutes. Used it with their iOS SDK.

nreece• 11 years ago

Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.

acc54321• 11 years ago

Agreed.

gxespino• 11 years ago

Another vote for stripe. I know of many junior web devs cutting their teeth on stripe. It's too easy.

eleumik• 11 years ago

Whatever web API I use I like it to be documented in automatic way so that is always up to date. Especially in first phase API changes, and I remember bad days spent in discovering the new version of some Facebook api before they get published..sort of MSDN black box hell

gcatalfamo• 11 years ago

Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.

aprdm• 11 years ago

I liked ones that I used and had Swagger documentation, that way you can easily make API calls in the API's documentation. Take for example pipedrive: https://developers.pipedrive.com/v1

Ask HN: What's the best Web based API you ever used?

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