Consuming REST APIs - a soft introduction

This book, a first of the series, softly introduces Consuming REST APIs. The second part will show building real world projects and experiments using REST APIs from various web platforms. Kindly follow the updates at gumroad.com/kehers

API examples and review information are based on documentations and information available about the respective services as at when writing this book. Providers update their APIs from time to time and these documentations change. To report an error, give feedback or just say hi, send me an email at kehers@gmail.com. You can also always catch me on Twitter at @kehers. I would really love to hear from you.

Special thanks to Dade, Francis, Zim and Tope for reading drafts of this and providing feedback.

Table of Content

Chapter 1

• 1.0. Introducing REST

Chapter 2

• 2.0. A second look at HTTP

• 2.1. HTTP Request

• 2.2. HTTP Response

Chapter 3

• 3.0. Anatomy of an API call

• 3.1. API Request tools

• 3.2. Response formats

• 3.3. Errors

• 3.4. Authentication & Authorization

• 3.5. Libraries

• 3.6. Rate Limit

Chapter 4

• 4.0. OAuth

• 4.1. OAuth 1.0

• 4.2. OAuth 2.0