When the API is not documented.

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

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

Started learning Go

It's very interesting language

Vision API fail

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

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...

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

Thanks @kwilliams! 😁

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.

The API they gave me.

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?

"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

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

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\"}"}

😡

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 😆

Write semicolons and braces in Python

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

Postman Makes API Development Simple.

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 ;)

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.

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.

Wondering why there isn’t API documentation.

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.

software engineers be like “i don’t read books” then proceed to read api documentation for 4 hours straight

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... :(

Move from PHP to Python in my job.

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...

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

I get handed an API spec that has no naming convention followed for any of the JSON properties. Different for both GET and POST. I request fixes and get a "no budget" answer.

Documenting school project with my debug guy

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

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

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 ☹️

*Creates a rest api that runs on localhost:8080*
*Creates React front end that runs on localhost:3000*
*Sends a GET request to api*
*Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy...*

Thats my fucking dev environment and its my local fucking host! Let me just send a fucking request to my own fucking machine you piece of shit! Why the fuck they didn't add an exclusion to fucking localhost?!?

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.

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. 😐

Arghhhh!

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

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

Fuck this
I get to work with API where you CAN authenticate with username/password and get a token

But you CAN'T get user info from token (auth response contains ONLY token)

So what I have to do:

1. Get token

2. Request ALL FUCKING USERS and load them into my DB

3. Search through local DB by username and, yeah, here I go

Now I need to have a cron job to update user DB 1/2 times per day

I can't think of ANY reason not to allow this

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

!$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

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.

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

Discord's bot API is super fun to use, it's definitely my most used if not favourite, it's super easy to make chat bots for basically anything. I'm aware chat bots aren't too special but the API is pretty insane and some people have made entire games in Discord alone. Cool stuff.

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.

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

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

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

Whoever wrote Telegram API was on fucking crack cocaine the whole time

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

I feel like Coronavirus related API endpoints should only be made available using SOAP

Thats why I hate fucking facebook API.

1. a client asks you to create an API for their system
2. you do what's requested
3. a year later you are curious how's that API doing. Client's devs decided to

[
"com.client.app.some.Datamodel$Subclass",
{
"someField": [
"java.util.ArrayList",
["SMTH","SMTH_ELSE"]
]}
]

sure, why not, right.....?

Developing: An API

Excited: Right now!

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

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.

When I use an undocumented API

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!

(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

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

Working with Facebook api is the equivalent of being at a dentist where a dentist is an ivory poacher.

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: 😳

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

How NOT to design an API
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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.

Try out foaas.com..best api ever!

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

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

Bought eGPU today. I love it!

“The documentation of this API is left as an exercise to the reader.”

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

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.

Locating undocumented API endpoints be like …

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.

year++

Twitter API really sucks!

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.

Api with no documentation and obscure endpoints

Fixing the API by documenting correct use

By AirspeedSwift @ Twitter

Microsoft APIs documentation, best API documentation ever!

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. ^^

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. 😂

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.

That moment an API updates and breaks everything.

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

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"

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

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

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.

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

oh boy

this api capitalizes properties

...yayyyy

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.

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

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

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"

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

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?

Is there an api to fetch avatars?
@dfox

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

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

See my awesome WhatsApp API using web automation.

I'm selling it though.

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 :-/

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 -_-

When I first began with Python I really missed the static typed checking from Java, I barely know anything about a returned object from a method and have to read the API extensively for every new library.

After a while I finally understand why Python is so powerful, the combination of dynamic typed language and rich default methods make the language unbeatable for your productivity.

While Java's Object only has toString(), hashCode(), equals() or clone(), Python's basic Class has every fucking method for every scenario I could ever image. No wonder that libraries like numpy or pandas work so well and fluidly.

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

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.

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

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

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.

!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 😊

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

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

Not sure how these devs made such a system.

Fuck API that can't handle asynchronous operations!

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

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

RESTful API Question

Let's say when a user do an action, I need to insert a record into a table and then update a record in different table.

Should I write two API routes (PUT, POST) or one route (POST) ?

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

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.

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.

Fuck api docs which are blatantly wrong. Wasted several hours on building an API client with pagination according to the api docs.

Turns out the actual implementation did not follow its own spec / api doc and returns values without pagination. And some objects are not objects but arrays.

I mean, next time I build an API client, I'll just fire a dozen requests on the endpoint, see what it wants and see what I get and maybe guess right what it actually does.

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

APIs, APIs, APIs... I feel like building an API for everything which goes over the wire is a must-have today! Yes it makes sense for decoupling purpose, access control etc (all the things we learned from OOP design principle books when we were in school) but come on, REST API for internal database access when there is something like SQL over JDBC/ODBC/WhateverBC ?? So I have to study the REST API documentation for applying simple where-statements but in API manner...

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

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

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

I'm regretting writing my API in node.... But GoLang is kinda a pain in the ass too.

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.

I am developing a REST api for my android app using laravel.I want to implement web to mobile chat like Facebook's messenger.Any suggestions?

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.

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

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!

For everybody wondering what's the new endpoint is..

/api/me/subscribed-feed

you can also provide an `filter`, which is comma-seperated with the possible values:
- posted
- commentedOn
- liked

"View more suggested users" does NOT load more. It simply doesn't show everything from the response.

How does the created time work in Devrant's API?
I get 'created_time': 1563478239

It makes literally no sense

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!! 🖕

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!

I wrote my own API for a project and there are literally three endpoints and I spend a solid 4 hours trying to figure it out

It's API testing time again..

(Posted under joke/meme So I don't spam people's feeds)

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.

Jesus so help me god. I just come here to rant about this FUCKING API PLATFORM. It uses doctrine, i set annotations, YET IT FUCKING KEEPS PUSHING the IRI's. IRI FOR IRITANT. What a fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck system. Bah bah... lost 2 hours because of this SHIT!

Ok, that helps. THANK YOU!

Does devRant have a public API?

Which pastebin service do you like the most?

I need to link two APIs such that data sent on one API gets processed and it hits a second API with the processed data.
The first API needs to format the data and decide according to data format which second API needs to be used. I checked Zapier and it's working but it is not exactly what i need to do. So are there any options other than setting up my own server?

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.

Fucking google maps JS api. One should think that a company as large as google should be capable of providing a reliable api. But this fucking api just decided for the second time in two weeks just to stop working.

After the api failed for the first time i found out that the provided url actually fetches the experimental version of the api (yes you read that correctly a fucking unstable version is the default version). To get the stable version of the api one has to add v=3 to the request. But even after adding the version the api just broke again today!

Fuck it! Google get your shit together!

Just thinking about switching to OSM...

Does API exist for authentication and account interaction for devrant? Or is it just getting rants from their servers?

Trello has an explicable REST API documentation. I like it.

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

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

I've got a bit funny situation.
I wanted to make small application to speed up my dad's job, app is about duplicating models in X website (I don't want to say directly what website).
So I started by checking it has API, Yup, It has, but you need OAuth ID, to get it you need to write to support.
So I did it, my mail was something like that: "Hello, can I get access to your API, I want to make app to duplicate models with same settings, Thanks"
I've got an answer like that "Hello, our website doesn't have duplicating feature."
My reaction was: Wtf? I know it doesn't have that feature, That's why I want to make it. How did he get hired as technical support?
Maybe it's not the most exciting story, but I thought it could be intresting :)

Where y'all host your website / API on?? any recommendations for me ?

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.

Small rant because I’m new here, but…I hate async functions in JavaScript.
Especially when dealing with an API.

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

Does anyone know where are the *official* devrant api docs? Tried web searching but could not find them.

Hey guys, is graphQl worth learning? Rest API is so easy to work with...

Laravel + bootstrap vs Vue + standalone API?

I just found out an API I was intending to use, lacks the functions I need to use..

It seems the company only got as far as having 80% of it written, and doesn't have plans to produce the missing 20%..

Luckily they have an old fashioned way to interface which doesn't need an API..

Well, good thing I found that out before I had invested too much time building an application that I assumed would have the necessary API calls to make use of !

When a REST API developer is bored. He sends message to everyone.

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

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

Can anyone give me links to any Devrant API? Thinking of starting work on creating a Native Android Devrant app as a side-project.

i am indeed working for some fun litte projects with the Dev Rant Unofficial Wrapper API and it looks good to use it! Now. Lets make some Action!