From Zero to API Hero: Consuming APIs like a Pro
summary
Covers concrete gotchas and fixes: how HTTP verbs, headers and bodies actually work, why status codes (200/201/202/400/401/403/404/429/5xx) are diagnostic, and how missing 429 logs broke a real integration. Shows tools and commands used to reproduce and inspect calls (curl, HAR export), and demonstrates the OAuth dance end-to-end, building a tiny test app and capturing callbacks with postman and request bin and verifying webhooks on mock bin.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 2:13Rails Magic
- 4:17Agenda
- 4:59Anatomy of an Api Call
- 6:13Headers
- 7:11Http Status Codes
- 11:22401 Unauthorized
- 12:39403 Forbidden
- 15:55429 Status or Api Limit Reached
- 19:18Authentication
- 20:04Developer Authentication
- 21:18Curl
- 24:03Oauth Dance
- 28:51Tools for Productivity
- 30:21Postman
