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Ask HN: What are exemplary REST APIs?

1 pointsby jeroenheijmansover 6 years ago
There are many good resources about writing APIs, but I'm also curious what the crowd here would consider great, exemplary REST API's? Looking for things like well-structured URI's, great design of request and response bodies, useful error handling, useful and beautiful documentation - as well as dealing with real-world stuff that can make API's and REST hard (pagination, wanting to do RPC style stuff specifically long-running tasks, etc.). Any good API's you'd recommend looking at for inspiration?

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120bitsover 6 years ago
I have always liked stripe [1] API documentation. Its very well structured and does have a beautiful documentation.<p>[1]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stripe.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;api</a>