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Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by pbreit »

smoussa wrote: post #84
IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

Add eBay to the second list. We are still uploading XML documents.

Ebay does have a "RESTful" API: https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/static/ebay-rest-landing...

Definitely agree that the old SOAP API was/is horrific. But the XML is about as easy to work with as JSON/REST.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by smitop »

jdnenej wrote: post #105
smoussa wrote: post #84

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Add eBay to the second list. We are still uploading XML documents.

eBay is an absolute nightmare. They have a demo instance to test on and it's about 4 years out of date and half of it doesn't work anymore.

For those interested, the demo instance is at https://sandbox.ebay.com/ The message at the top says "eBay and PayPal will be separate companies soon", even though they became seperate companies 4 years ago.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by vincentmarle »

dalanmiller wrote: post #95
IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

The Twilio Dashboard _really_ needs a refresh. It's still in a world where every button is a complete page refresh. It's painfully slow to interact with.

For some reason every page load also needs to download a 8MB blob. I discovered this when I was trying to access it over a tethered connection.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by lucasmullens »

trustfundbaby wrote: post #108
IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

Github api. honorable mention.

For which side?

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by organsnyder »

IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69
knubie wrote: post #15

Stripe is by far the best developer experience I’ve had in my career working with third party APIs/services. The attention to detail is just second to none, and documentation is a big part of this.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

Just be thankful you haven't worked in healthcare.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by GarrisonPrime »

IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69
knubie wrote: post #15

Stripe is by far the best developer experience I’ve had in my career working with third party APIs/services. The attention to detail is just second to none, and documentation is a big part of this.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

God, I haaaaaaaaate PayPal. Not as a dev, but as a casual private user, a real-world entertainment venue business owner, an online retail business owner, an eBay user, a seeker of capital loan sources, and just a UI and customer service utilizer.

If ever there was an example of a company with "first out of the gate" advantage leading to such a large head-start that theyy could afford to constantly give the middle finger to everyone, PayPal is it. I cannot wait for legit altternatives to catch up.

Stripe is doing pretty well, but unless they somehow tap into the casual online user they won't disrupt PayPal's stranglehold to any significant extent.

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by on_and_off »

ztratar wrote: post #93
on_and_off wrote: post #39

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Fwiw, we kinda had the opposite experience when trying to get them to fix the a11y of their product. It has been a constant struggle on all platforms to get the stripe widgets to behave correctly. Since payment is not exactly an optional step in a product, this has been very painful.

Curious which widgets you're talking about?

the credit card data input widgets that stripe provides

Re: Stripe CLI

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Post by wrboyce »

smoussa wrote: post #84
IGotThroughIt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Top APIs I've enjoyed working with: 1. Stripe (Best) 2. Twilio 3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly) 4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.) 5. Google (mostly ok but could be better) APIs I've hated working with: 1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty) 2. Facebo…

Add eBay to the second list. We are still uploading XML documents.

I submitted a SAR to eBay and they responded by posting me a copy of my data on a USB stick!
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