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Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
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#2Flickr's API is still the best.
Does everything you want it to.
Has a few fun surprises that you didn't expect that make it even more fun to make things with.
Simple to use.
Well documented.
Test playground at your fingertips to experiment with any call you like.
One of the first APIs ever released and you can still count the number of other available APIs that positively compare on one hand.
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#3I really like Telegram's bot API. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api
Helps me automate stuff around my life with a few small apps that connect to Telegram message threads. Summaries from other APIs, smart home functionality, family errands and shopping list reminders with my spouse and more.
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#4Github's API solves a crucial pain point of being both consistent and stable when I am trying to teach APIs to students.
Re: Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
#5I really like Telegram's bot API. https://core.telegram.org/bots/api Helps me automate stuff around my life with a few small apps that connect to Telegram message threads. Summaries from other APIs, smart home functionality, family errands and shopping list reminders with my spouse and more.
+1
Made Hacker News Alerts bot - https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot. Basically using it as a personal feed of stories and for keywords monitoring (Like "telegram" for example :) )
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#6Spotify API - well documented, straight foward to use, and has made it easier for manage my library and make playlists for myself.
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#7I love the Mastodon API because it lets me write fun bots without having to go through too much toil.
Re: Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
#8All of them since it allows me a way to easily interact with my data.
If a service collects my data, but doesn’t have an API, then I just have to wait to find a comparable service that does.
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#9QT5.. It's so well documented, and just a pleasure to work in.
I'm almost never using it though.. I mostly work with the Node API, and some of the larger libraries in the infrastructure, it's fairly okay too.
Re: Ask HN: Which is your most favorite API?
#10Probably pthreads. Makes otherwise very tedious things straightforward and uses predicable naming conventions. For longer justification of it being well done, see https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2010/04/05/pthreads-as-a-case-...