TechEcho

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?

Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.

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: <a href="https://developers.pipedrive.com/v1" rel="nofollow">https://developers.pipedrive.com/v1</a>

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.

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

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

Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.

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?

Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.

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.

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

Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.

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

6 comments

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

6 comments