HackDukeAPIWorkshop

Example of using APIs using the Twitter API. Presented at a pre-hackathon workshop on 10/2 and during HackDuke on 10/ 13.

Check out my Google Presentation

Twitter API use - steps

1. Login to Twitter and create a Twitter app.
2. Create your authentication string and get bearer string (secure authentication string).
3. Identify the API method you want to use and get the API endpoint for that method/resource.
4. Construct request using the bearer string, endpoint, and any request parameters necessary.
5. Send request and receive data. Put into a string.
6. Parse response string in JSON format.
7. Use data

A few tips:

• Here's a (non-comprehensive) list of fun, handy public APIs
• Visualize JSON with JSON Editor