Shapir: Standardizing and Democratizing Access to Web APIs

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A standardized, machine-readable ontology called WoOPI maps diverse REST endpoints to typed objects and Schema.org properties, and an authoring GUI generates client code so sites appear as local objects. The system auto-produces ShapirJS libraries and integrates with Mavo for no-code HTML apps. Evaluation shows the generated libraries make API data tasks roughly 5.6× faster for programmers and that novices build multi-API apps in about 4 minutes, with 90% of sampled APIs fully describable.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:51HTML Templating Language
3. 3:19The Web of Objects
4. 5:09Shapir Ecosystem
5. 5:38Surveying Web APIs
6. 6:50WOOPI Design
7. 9:15Shapir User Studies
8. 9:35Shapir-Mavo Evaluation

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