When the API is not documented.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I present you the API I'm working with...

That's a pretty fucking useful error description right there.

An API Wrapper: (src: @jcsrb)

Client "Can you change your API? If a POST return 201 ours system crashes reading it"
Me "Your system WHAT?????"

GitHub: a marketplace for publicly available API keys

When you start wiring your api and front end together...

The CEO at the company I work at has been telling our partners that our PIA is ready. It took me a week to figure out what the hell a PIA was but he actually meant API

Vision API fail

Started learning Go

It's very interesting language

Day 1: Integrates a new API
Day 2: Updates LinkedIn skills!

This rant just fucked up devRant unofficial for Windows 10.
It causes a JSON syntax error in the API response. 🤣

Thanks @kwilliams! 😁

Guys i guess i did it.. more than a year ago i started developing an API.. every admin of it could create new endpoints through the webui.. for rach endpoint you can create an own auth system.. a local company just fucking bought my shit.. a fucking simple API for 12k€.. im kinda proud now because i am only 18

Everyone should buy this...

When your API gives a successful response after 30 hours.
Pure bliss😇

Rant! I found a bug in payment provider's api. The bug involves sending an invalid (!) Stripe ID to that API, (which I send on purpose btw) Which causes a complete white page when you login to their systems and view the details of that customer. Btw the API will accept that invalid Stripe ID without questioning and returns a 200 status code back.

So I send a mail to there support saying "look I found this bug by accident, this is how you can reproduce it"

And the support team send me a message back saying "then don't send an invalid Stripe ID"...

You don't freaking say... *sigh*

I finally get in the mood to work on my side project and GUESS WHAT? THE API IM USING FOR IT IS FUCKING DOWN 😂🔫

I guess Elon Musk is too focused on colonizing mars to the point that he forgot to improve PayPal's API docs.

"I want my API to return insults as error messages if they forget shit"

Uh no, I prefer helping them out by writing proper documentation than sending a giftbox with me flipping them off like Linus Fucking Torvalds for their spaghetti usage of your API

Don't let the guy writing the client define the API. You'll end up with an API that only works for that client.

I'd like to share my awesome desktop :)

How does look your desktop?

About to integrate a SOAP API. Please pray for me.

Api means monkey in icelandic, and this is what comes to mind when someone says that a function calls the api.

Worked 8 hours on a feature to send attachments from our system (A) to another (B) via B's API. Perfect code, yet I couldn't make it work. B's API has full and extensive documentation for said feature. Contacted B to ask about it, got reply: "Oh yeah - we havent enabled that yet but thought it was handy to have it ready in the docs"

FML

That moment that the need for a certain service rises and the domain name you want isn't available so you randomly think of another genius one which you can also do a fun 'joke' with and you start building an api around that idea.

This is gonna be fun 😆

So I was asked to create a new feature for an API.

I warned the client by email that it would make them unable to use an existing API call, and that it would always return 403 forbidden to them. They said okay.

I implemented the feature. Two weeks later I get an email: "Why doesn't the API work anymore? We keep getting 403 messages"

*Sighs deeply*

Write semicolons and braces in Python

I'm nearly done importing almost half a million records to Shopify and they just formal email asking me to stop hitting their API so hard.

Why on Earth would an API require me to provide input like this?

{"this": "{\"is\": \"not\"}", "how": "{\"json\": \"works\"}"}

😡

I played around with the devRant API and generated the average looking devranter! Thanks @danillouz for the great API and @stop to encourage my brain ;)

This was posted from my devRant api wrapper. (pls work now ok?)

Published a well documented and tested API with project examples for basic use cases

- "Yeah we didn't use yours because we didn't know how to use it"
- "Did you look at the documentation or code examples?"
- "What where?"
- "In the repo you just cloned"
- "Yeah no <random guy> found a hacky way of doing what we want, his thing just works"
- "I..."

Note to self: ALWAYS cache API calls.

Wondering why there isn’t API documentation.

Yesterday I received the API documentation from an external company. Over half of the endpoints are either wrong or send invalid data and even the given test requests are fucking failing.
It's a nightmare. We have to finish a website until friday and that company did nothing for 2 months and now we have 2 days left.
The sheer incompetence is too damn high.
My boss said it would have been much better if we had implemented the API on our own. Damn right.

I write "api" in the mail and the management girl thinks i made a typo and corrects it to "app" on the report.

This is not even the first time she has done this! 🤦🏻‍♂

Postman Makes API Development Simple.

Does anyone have a good and free translator api I could use? I’m doing small school project and I just wanted to create text translator app. I tried yandex already, and ibm sucks since it doesn’t allow ajax request

You know what's more irritating than working with a partner who doesn't understand how to properly build an API?

Working with one who fully understands the best practices but doesn't give a shit to implement them until something breaks.

Move from PHP to Python in my job.

Dear dev at my company:

FUCK YOU AND YOUR PIECE OF SHIT API.

Well... I found the bug...
Thanks Sun/Oracle for the clever API design. ;)

Also... I feel like a noob now :D

Creating an API to access another API in order to secure your apikey feels... weird

Google's API docs are some of the worst I've ever seen... :(

Always satisfying when clients say our API doesn't work and it's shit, only to find out their firewall prevented external calls.

Yea, that's seems about right.When the user gives incorrect password,throw an Internal Server Error.
Great API design!

Fuck you you fucking fuck, why would you change an api without any notification?

Background: built an app for a customer, it needs to fetch data frlman external api, and save it to a db.
Customer called: it's broken what did you do?!?
Me: I'll look into it.

Turned out the third party just changed their api... Guess I should implenent some kind of notification, if no messages come in for some time...

I can't complain about clients on devRant because I make a REST API and some of my clients use devRant. Oh wait.

Working with a delivery ordering API. Response:
Shipping label type: PDF
Label: base64encoded string

I was like, that's easy, literally two lines of code. Proceeds to convert and save the file. Then on open, bam! Format ubreadable. What the actual fuck?! Found an online converter, and tried to convert it to pdf, to see if I was missing something, but the results was the same.

Then checked the decoded string. First 3 characters: GIF

Well fuck you too! This carrier uses GIF's for it's shipping labels for 2years at least, how hard is it to change that in your fucking api response, you pice of shitbag.

Documenting school project with my debug guy

Finally I understand what it is like to use a language that does not have any extra resources like stackoverflow or tutorials.

Using ReasonML for my final year project and the only resource I have is the API doc ☹️

Best linux desktop environment?
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I am going to reinstall my Arch Linux. It's time to try anything else than gnome.

Arghhhh!

The screen I'm looking at that is supposed to be the documentation portal for an API I need to consume :(

The avatars items can be updated via the secret api, without an app update

@JS96 seems to be the only person who knows this api (3rd party) since there is a black raven in UWP avatar editor.

@Skayo searching for the api...

@Floydian thanking @trogus

@dfox staying quiet

devRant being an avatar fam.

Production crashed literally 5 minutes after I went to bed. Collaborators couldn't fix the problem as they had to reset an API key only my account could access. They tried calling me but my phone was muted. Woke up 5 hours later only to realise it had been down all night.

Whoops.

Oh my god, document your god damn API so I know what to expect! So many bloody edge cases!

My FAVORITE bugs are those in someone ELSE's code that MY code depends on. Like an API that won't respond correctly when I FOLLOW THE DOCUMENTATION EXACTLY. 😐

Nobody told you you had to make a REST API, but if you want to call it REST, please learn the basics of what it means...

!$rant

Playing around with pxgamer's php wrapper for the devrant api and was able to display my devrants avatar image in my portfolio project :D

Just got a response back from an API "you must authenticate to get the goodies"

I came here to rant about how bad Twitter API is but I found out that I already made a rant about that before.

Spent 3+ hours trying to debug an issue I was having with the AdWords API - tore apart my code. Turns out it was AdBlock that was blocking images displayed from the API call. Sigh.

Hard at work moving the unofficial devRant api documentation to GitBook.

Note: The previous link provided will stop working in due course.

What in the name of fuck is this API?

Leader: Meeting starts in 10 mins, we have to show this to the boss
*Team member breaks database silently
*I notice the API has stopped working
Leader: Anyone , anything you want to tell me before the meeting.
*I raise my hand
Me: Yep, the API is not working :)
*Everybody ... FACEPALM

Using a library with a terrible API.

Manage to convince management to purchase new library.

Using new library.

Slowly creeps in that new library has a terrible API.

When I use an undocumented API

(After several hours of debugging a returned "mal formed xml" error)

Me: We found out your api does accept our XML only if its elements are in certain order.

They: Oh! yes. :)

Me: ... and since XML should not depend on order, maybe you should fix that. Or at least alert about it in docs.

They: Yes, maybe we should. :)

Me: ... OK

Thats why I hate fucking facebook API.

Why do XML API-s still exist? WHY? It's like walking up to a hot chick hoping to get a number, but she turns around and smiles with no teeth.

Try out foaas.com..best api ever!

Making an API REST endpoint in laravel, adding this just for the fun XD

The Instagram API sucks a Lot.

Why the fuck I've to login with my account using OAuth2 to get posts of a PUBLIC account, it's so hard to make an authentication endpoint that doesn't require the user to enter his credentials in order to access PUBLIC content?

Fucking piece of shit

Developing: An API

Excited: Right now!

What's the most complex programming task you ever had to solve? Or: A "hack"* of a framework/API you came up with to make something work?

*undocumented or unintended use

Creating an API is not too difficult. However, OAuth2.0 is a bitch. Who the hell thought this was reasonable?

When the only "api" documentation you have is a wsdl file...

Raised a support ticket with an api provider about unclear error messages. They were as confused as I was and as the thread continued I essentially ended up debugging thier application for them!

How NOT to design an API
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

TL: Hey, prepare supporting this type of payment method on the app
Me: I don't see it yet on the API
TL: Just visualize it
Me: 😳

I really hate api response variable names like this. I mean why type "targetitemid" when "target_item_id" is so much more readable?

18 commits later, the unofficial documentation has been ported over to GitBook.

The documentation now lives in a private repo on GitHub which is hooked up to a CI tool to build the book when a commit is pushed.

This will make maintaining the documentation much easier and also allow for collaboration which was previously not possible.

Because this documentation contains some endpoints some of you might not even know about, access is provided on a invite-only basis which is controlled by @dfox.

For new requests, contact @dfox with your name and what you are planning to build.

If you have already created something with the API email me at support@nblackburn.uk with your name and a link and I will send you a invite.

Trying to make a basic api, i now have a head ache. Thanks php

Does anyone know how to post a rant via their api. Trying to make a custom devRant app.

Microsoft APIs documentation, best API documentation ever!

Api with no documentation and obscure endpoints

This API I'm working with has started responding with invalid JSON. I'm going home now.

When you click on the github wiki of the API you wanted to use and it shows you the "Create the first page" banner....

Guess I'll have to find another API with proper fucking documentation.

The world: we found a cure for AIDS.
Hacker news: I don't see a RESTful api endpoint for that, so it's useless.

I worked for this Chinese company, one of their systems that was supposedly handling millions of US$ in transactions per day had an API that returned HTML tables...

I stop you right there commenter, there was no format=json parameter.

Another of their API I gave up on:

Status = 200
Content = "error"

Why Gmail. Why the fuck do your search parameters, especially your date filters, not work anywhere near as expected.

You make me have to query and test, query and test, just, randomly fucking guessing because, fuck it, right?

With a good 10 second refresh time. I love twiddling my thumbs and pulling my hair out.

after:2018/11/1 should produce emails from Nov 1st onward.

Not, TODAY ONLY, if no other parameters are
specified.

If there's a from: parameter, now we want to do after Nov 1st, right?

And also, don't show me how to sort in reverse order, either. Not without a complete rewrite of my class there, which clearly I'm too lazy to do right now.

Fuck the Gmail Api, responsible for weeks of wasted dev time... or more aptly put, "fuck devs using our gmail api" says the maniacal, sociopath devils that created it

fuckers.

That moment an API updates and breaks everything.

Locating undocumented API endpoints be like …

Wrote a image generation api which uses a headless browser within 2 days ^^ it generates an image like the one below in around 500ms while also loading external resources like that avatar and the icons. ^^

Why doesn't Twitter have a public API without authentication for simple stuff, such as reading tweets. One can do that without logging in on the website, why shouldn't code be able to do it.

Got myself into Facebook's Graph-API...
...everything is so easy and well optimized.

NOT! Now I have to optimize the request to reduce loadtime. Why is there data so fractured?

Dear API vendor,

Please get off your arse and learn about REST, OpenAPI, JSON Schema, XSD and basic documentation so that I don't have to guess how to use your shitty, inconsistent, RPC over HTTP service.

With Love,

Platypus

Fixing the API by documenting correct use

By AirspeedSwift @ Twitter

Trying to work with an API that has no response object (it just returns empty arrays if something breaks) and it's JSON is not key-value.. just a bunch of dynamic nested values. just wow.

When googles stupid geocoder api breaks for No reason after IT has worked for months with no problems. Adding a try/catch apprently fixed it and I still have No idea why it fixed or why it broke in the forst place. Fuck my life, this is one og the days i would wish i could jump in a vulcano.

Customers API is like:
A: I get no input to the API, check your code.
B: My code works fine, just your API returns nothing.
A: I see, let me adjust it. Does it work?
B: No.
A: And now?
B: No dice.
A: But now it should work!
B: I am sorry, nope.
A: Ok, I try to turn off the firewall. Does it work?
B: Yes, it works...(and this is why I do overtime -_-)

all documentation points to an Invalid auth token being code 400 (ignore the fact that this is a code in the JSON response and not HTTP)

Me: here iz credential. Plz send datas
API: haha fock off and die mate, then credentials you got there aren’t workin’
API: code 998 invalid auth token
Me: *speechless* so that’s why it took me longer than it did to find that error, because YOUR CODE WAS MISSING ALL MY CHECKS FOR CODE 400.

Why can’t people design apis properly.

Is it wrong to expect some widespread documentation from a $350 billion company to properly document a key part of their upgrade path for a new SDK version? beware any Android devs upgrading from API 3.X to 4.X on the Facebook SDK.......you'll want FacebookSdk.setLegacyTokenUpgradeSupported(true); before your call to initialize.....

When they want you to make stored procedures instead of an API... And there's no DBA.

Colleagues of mine, even though they show signs of versioning their api by having "v1" in the URL, keep committing breaking changes to that version. 😂

When the whole api is using just GET requests, even when updating

Twitter API really sucks!

Yesterday I've finished the basics of my first api at work. Now going to start on the mvc front end.

Finally learning C# ASP .NET and how to do it right.

So far everyone is happy at work

I am writing an api to get data from another api, mix it with some data from a database and then send it back.
I am using nodejs (javascript) to write it but I would like to learn something new. Can you recommend me any languages that I could use for my backend? I was thinking maybe go but I am open for ideas.

I'd like to create my own pastebin-like service...

So I'd like to ask which features do you miss (or hate) in these services?

Why is Google so bad in creating good documentations for their API ?

I send exactly what they specify and on some values I just get a 400. thanks for nothing

Does devrant have a public api? Tempted to write an atom plugin so I can pretend to work, but actually rant.

!rant

build me a little tool today, which make use of the spotify API.
Just want to thank the devs of this API. Well documented, good examples, easy to use.
There are some good devs Out there 😊

1st post of a series, which I might start called wolkes weird api queries.
Today we have a user that was looking for "big bobs"

Is there an api to fetch avatars?
@dfox

I mailed to you a long time ago, but not getting any responses.

Is there any backend web developer? Which IDE/editor do you use and why?

I would like to present new super API which I have "pleasure" to work with. Documentation (very poor written in *.docx without list of contents) says that communication is json <-> json which is not entirely true. I have to post request as x-www-form with one field which contains data encoded as json.

Response is json but they set Content-Type header as text/html and Postman didn't prettify body by default...

I'm attaching screenshot as a evidence.

I can't understand why people don't use frameworks and making other lives harder :-/

So company x decides that they're depreciating their REST API v1 in favor of v2 which came out like 2 months ago. But I figure: "I'm okay because I use their official Python module". Well v1 went offline two days ago and they still have not updated their own library to work with v2.

SO MAD. Hands are shaking after dealing with this awful API for too long. I just sent this to a contact at JP Morgan Chase.

-------------------
Hello [X],
1. I'm having absolutely no luck logging in to this account to check the Order Abstraction service settings. I was able to log in once earlier this morning, but ever since I've received this frustratingly vague "We are currently unable to complete your request" error message (attached). I even switched IP's via a VPN, and was able to get as far as entering the below Identification Code until I got the same message. Has this account been blocked? Password incorrect? What's the issue?

2. I've been researching the Order Abstraction API for hours as well, attempting to defuddle this gem of an API call response:

error=1&message=Authentication+failure....processing+stopped

NOWHERE in the documentation (last updated 14 months ago) is there any reference to this^^ error or any sort of standardized error-handling description whatsoever - unless you count the detailed error codes outlined for the Hosted Payment responses, which this Order Abstraction service completely ignores. Finally, the HTTP response status code from the Abstraction API is "200 OK", signaling that everything is fine and dandy, which is incorrect. The error message indicates there should be a 400-level status code response, such as 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden or at least 400 Bad Request.

Frankly, I am extremely frustrated and tired of working with poorly documented, poorly designed and poorly maintained developer services which fail to follow basic methodology standardized decades ago. Error messages should be clear and descriptive, including HTTP status codes and a parseable response - preferably JSON or XML.
-----

This whole piece of garbage is junk. If you're big enough to own a bank, you're big enough to provide useful error messages to the developers kind enough to attempt to work with you.

The flipside of too much googling for each and every API references is that one fails to answer simple interview questions..

Well shit... There really is an API for everything these days huh.

Not sure how these devs made such a system.

When you contact the API communication support of the supplier, and several emails and test cases later they still fail to understand your problem.

How long does it take you guys to learn Node JS?

My professor wants me to work for him on a CRUD Server for a semester, I have some experience with JavaScript and API programming with Spring Boot. Should I take the offer and learn more about Node at home?

I think I will feel like an imposter if I take the offer if I don't have any previous experience in the stack

Friend: *Gives an example of the Windows C API naming convention*
Me: This should be classified as it's own language. And I'm not talking programming, either.

So I created a web API with a request that responds with hourly values for a requested day. The API is only used by clients' systems (not users directly).

Today I got the assignment to create another request that responds with the *sum* of all values in a day, just because "the competition also offers this"...

I mean come on, can't those clients just sum up the returned values from the first request themselves? 😡

Developed a very simple REST api with pure php. Eventually "api/users/" worked but "api/users" was 301 moved!!.. it was a big problem

Fuck API that can't handle asynchronous operations!

I saw Skype after 6 years. It's bullshit. I've never seen so bad app.

Is there a way to recreate Windows File Explorer? Is there an API for it?

The moment when your ecommerce site relies completely in 3rd party vendor, and their API is changing without any heads up or announcement

My current project: PHP microframework that makes building REST API kinda 'easy'

But I've read some articles online that building APIs using PHP is a really bad idea. I guess I just wasted my time. Lol. I hate myself.

API provider: include a signature based on these fields in this order. DO NOT ENCODE IT!

Implementation works a while, then..

*a wild apostrophe appears*

Signature no longer works.

API Provider: "oh, yeah we escape those."

Arrghhghghghhhghvhxmchsoxnsoxnwl

Not only is it a poor design for signing payloads, the documentation is shockingly poor in it.
Even the implementation example (which is supposedly from their code) doesn't account for any type of escaping or encoding.

Before anyone asks, I can't into details about the implementation.

Whoever created the google adsense/admob report api and its documentation : choke on my dick and die you fucking asshole.

well, FUCK, this api that im trying to use has ReCaptcha(NoCaptcha)
FUCKIN GREAT
i dont care if your api is not publicly documented, and that you store api "keys" on browser cookies on plaintext, but AT LEAST TELL US if you deprecated the api and use a new one that has no documentation, kinda hard to make a python wrapper, thx -_-

Which is the worst API you've worked with? Facebook? LinkedIn?

People who provide an easy to read and understand API reference for their modules are the real MVPs.

Run test
everything ok
Run again
everything ok
Run again
error
Run again
everything ok

*wtaf is happening?*
I googled for the cause of a "double callback" error and found out that supertest was throwing it when I was attaching a file to the API request. found no conclusive way to solve it, just that "supertest does it from time to time".

Trying to investigate further, I made a function to repeat the API request 5 times in a row. Everything passed. The run it again. Two failed. Again and everything passed.

this is bullshit

fml

When you finally fully integrated an API, fixed the obvious bugs and want to demonstrate it to the client... and just out of the blue your API key is not accepted anymore.

Oh jesus fckn' crist!
The Wikipedia API documentation is so extensive

So I've spent the past 2 months or so integrating a payments provider with a terrible API, only to find that the provider is missing a core feature that they claimed to have in their sales pitch. I have no idea what will become of a large part of my work, it's so draining to work around a total garbage API

How come devRant doesn't have an easy way to find out how their API works? I'm reading off of wrappers to figure out what responses may contain and what the endpoints even are arghh

I have until Friday to write a service that's going to consume our backend api.
I'm doing it with Python, the back end is in Node. It's going to be the first pyhon service in our company, so everybody is looking at it to see if we could/should do more Python!
Under pressure!

> mfw I created a responsive API totally unconsciously, if not by complete accident

How would you support multiple versions of an API and why?

- Multiple version instances behind a load balancer.
- Versioned controllers behind a proxy.

Curious to hear yours thoughts and reasoning.

Wen an api has decided that -1 should === true...

I always end up building my own wrapper using the REST API rather than using the already existing SDKs to just avoid going through the docs!

Instagram new API app submission models is a piece of crap ..
Mostly developers can not get applications approved ..
Public data should be accessible to developera

I setup a Firebase project, and then remove the authentication completely, so I can send API call freely.

After 2 weeks I am still alive...

That's amazing!

WHY THE FUCK DO YOU FUCKING RETARDS USE TWO DIFFERENT AUTHENTICATION METHODS FOR THE PAYMENT AND THE CHECKOUT API AND DON'T EVEN DOCUMENT THIS SHIT PROPERLY!! 🖕

We're looking to change the domain provider we use to register new client's domains to one that has an API.
So far it looks like it'll either be namecheap or AWS's Route 53.
We're also looking for the same thing with mail inboxes.

Do you have any recommendations / experience with either of these?

I was hoping to find a solution that would provide both the domain registration and the mailboxes with no hosting and accessible via API but I've had no such luck.
(Except for maybe two, but neither looked up to date)

Developer tools needs to tell us from which file the API was called.

Does the devRant API provide for authenticating and posting new rants?

I've found several unofficial docs that mention grabbing rants and profiles but none that I've found have a method to post rants.

SMS vs telegram bot vs WhatsApp api ?
Do or die question

Your API returns, encoded as json, the ENTIRE FUCKING CSS FILE!?!?

Does devRant have a public API?

Which pastebin service do you like the most?

That moment when you build your app around a clients development API only to find out their production API responds about 8x slower... I'm sorry, it's not my fault your API server takes 4000 ms for a SIMPLE response. My app isn't the problem. Fix your shit.

There's a production site with api call limits. We experienced waaaaay more visitors than usual and I forgot to increase the api call limit, so new users weren't able to do anything. FML again, update emails sent out.

Trying to integrate with sales force API via oath2 has made me lose all confidence in myself as a programmer.

I am currently playing around with hosting an API on Heruko but I also hear a lot of buzz around serverless APIs...
What do you guys recommend? Or do you recommend another host for playing around and maybe getting more serious in the future?

Just booted laravel app, hooked up socialite with Instagram. Come to query the Instagram API and find out I can't do jack shit in sandbox mode.

And I need a privacy policy for getting out of the sandbox mode? Yeah.. for a private app I need a policy to know what's happening with my data. Useful.

App abandoned. Shame.

Where do I begin creating a Backend API for my Frontend?

I already know how to make the Frontend of my personal projects. But I want to learn to make the Backend as well. Any advice is appreciated.

When the buisness account manager asks you why the module isnt done, and doesnt understand that you cant test anything until he actually sets up the account, and gets you the development keys for the api you are supposed to integrate.

Alright, if you don't make apply a little feature, which you already use in your webpage, in your API, I'll have to fucking parse that shit.

Screw you, I'm sacrificing my free time...

What's a good REST API to learn from where I can make some simple gets puts and posts without too much setup?

An API for an API..

Hear me out. :-)

You know how some websites have an API, and some folk write applications that use that API.

A thought occurred to me, instead of writing a new application for each website, why not keep the same application, but have an API for it.

Then each time you have a new website to support, you only need to develop the in-between module that translates one API to another API, you could call it the Translation Matrix Layer perhaps..

Thoughts, suggestions, ideas welcomed.

I'd like to make an open source data registry, with an easy to access API. For example, perhaps I'd like to list all cities and postal codes in France, or perhaps get the number of dogs in Canada. Any ideas how to structure the open source part? How can people contribute? Should it use external APs?

I'm creating a messenger app (I know there are many, but it's different)

Any suggestion for API gateway? I was looking for ready made solutions to save time. I heard Kong is good. But I want to know your suggestions.

The Amazon MWS API is so utterly shite! Offers error messages sometimes then others tells you to upload your file to their file checker. Their file checker doesn’t accept XML so why say that?

Who on earth develops and documents their shit APIs?

Fuck you Amazon

"The API will be ready soon", but it comes in late and nothing like the agreed upon spec.