AnyApi is the worlds smallest API client :-)

Decided to share this thanks to some research I did on APIs. Most of them have a base URL, then API endpoint, API username, a API password and transmits data in form of JSON. Then there are requests and responses. This could be a simple solution to access and work with a big or small APIs.

Please give Ruby's Net::HTTP Library a go. That is the backbone behind this. Net::HTTP simple, does the job, it is fast and build on top Ruby's IO so straight to the point.

Installation

gem 'any_api'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install any_api

Usage

If you are going to use this with Rails. Add bellow code your application.rb file, or the application_controller.rb file or as an initialiser file. It would work fine with any other Ruby project.

require 'any_api'

AnyApi.configure do |config|
  #please dont put a "/" at the end of the api_base_url
  config.api_base_url =  "https://iamfree.com/api/v1"
  #Dont need bellow authentication information if the API does not need username and password  
  config.username =  "me@example.com"
  config.password =  "my-sectret-password"
end

Then you can call any API with

response = AnyApi::Request.new("Get", 'products.json' )

or if cannot be bothered to write AnyApi::Request a many times, then use a constants with the configuration

#after the the above configuration code
HIAPI = AnyApi::Request
end

And then

response = HIAPI.new("Get", 'products.json' )

The first parameter is the HTTP method. Secondly it is the url endpoint.

If you want to do Post or Update calls please send parameters with your request

my_params = {"year"=>"2014", "country"=>"Australia", "first_name"=>"True", "last_name"=>"Colours"}
response = AnyApi::Request.new( "Post", 'users/new', my_params)

To parse the response

response.parser_response

If you want assert that the API call is a success before save your information database you could use the is_ok? method

  if response.is_ok?
    good_json = response.parser_response
    ......
  else
    bad_json_error_message = response.parser_response
    .....
  end

Thanks

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/iamfree-com/any_api/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request