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Anyone know any tools for quickly creating interfaces for APIs? Like if I have a list of posts, I want to display them as a list with title and content.

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    html?
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    just google JSON to HTML table.
    Something bound to show up.

    Otherwise I'm lost as to what you want?
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    @stop @C0D4 I was thinking some application that would allow me, or anyone without much coding experience, to build an interface for data. Like displaying a list with images, or an individual item. I know it's kind of niche, but I though someone might know of something.
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    @ScriptCoded html with javascript and REST with json is the simplest i know.
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    @stop Though I want someone with limited or no coding experience to be able to do it. A visual editor of some sort.
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    Take a look at KnockoutJS, it's pretty simple to bind JS variables to HTML elements and have them repeat their contents for each element in an array, for example.

    https://knockoutjs.com/

    EDIT: Just saw your latest comment. KnockoutJS is not a visual editor, so maybe it's not what you want.
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    @ScriptCoded I haven't come across something that could handle it as a visual representation.

    JSON is pretty straight forward to understand by its self if prettified otherwise due to the complexity api responses could be (multiple layers / dimensions) iteration to a standard view is usually something you write yourself or pull out the data you need and output as necessary.

    Did some googling and this could work as a quick hack - just copy your response and it'll will create a table for you

    http://convertjson.com/json-to-html...
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    @C0D4 I was thinking that a colleague would be using it, so as simple as possible is good. That transformer looks like a step in the right direction. I'm thinking perhaps excel could do it?
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    @cmarshall10450 Yeah that's kind of what @C0D4 suggested. Thanks
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    @ScriptCoded yeah. Just some alternatives. I don't think there's anything else that will handle general json structures as the response from an api is up to the api designer. I don't know of anyway for excel to handle json input.
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    @cmarshall10450 There are ways, buuuut annoying as hell
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    Postman might be ideal, depending on your situation.

    https://www.getpostman.com/products
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    @zpeters Not at all, actually :)
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    Do you want to perform a conversion operation? If yes try this
    https://www.jsonformatting.com/
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    @kateliuyi talk about digging up the graveyard 😅

    @ScriptCoded not sure if your email given up on this...

    But n8n could probably solve this for a no-code approach and spit the json into google sheets or something:

    https://n8n.ip
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    @kateliuyi Oh hi there 😅 Not quite what I'm after. But, thanks?

    @C0D4 I ended up building a quick HTML interface instead. But n8n seems like something that might be useful in the future. Ty!
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