This is the project I have showed in the Workshop. If you want to practice yourself there are 2 choices: Basketball Players API and Covid API. They each have their own explanation in the files and there is also explanation below.
- Run the server
node server.js
You need these for the project.
- npm
npm install npm@latest -g
- NodeJS
https://nodejs.org/en/ go to this website and download LTS version. (any version is fine)- Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/SalihSaygi/NodeJS-API-Workshop.git
- Install NPM packages
npm install
Sign up at rapidapi.com and then visit this link "https://rapidapi.com/theapiguy/api/free-nba"
api link's base is "https://free-nba.p.rapidapi.com/" (the link you fetch from)
Sample Code: const axios = require("axios").default;
const options = { method: 'GET', url: 'https://free-nba.p.rapidapi.com/players', params: {page: '0', per_page: '25', search: 'lebron'}, headers: { 'x-rapidapi-host': 'free-nba.p.rapidapi.com', 'x-rapidapi-key': '706f21a929msha2d95a17ec34dd7p1238f9jsnde2668804a60' } }; this will give you players with people whose first name are lebron
//copy your own code from the link (https://rapidapi.com/theapiguy/api/free-nba") with your own paramaters
Covid api link is "https://covid-api.mmediagroup.fr/v1"
To learn how to navigate and get your specific data, go to this link: "https://github.com/M-Media-Group/Covid-19-API/blob/master/README.md"
For example https://covid-api.mmediagroup.fr/v1/cases shows you cases