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The section on OAuth needs to be made better.
Of course, there is a lot of nuance in the OAuth spec(s), but we didn't feel the need to be that verbose for an "An Introduction to APIs". We'd love to hear more about what broad but important aspect of OAuth that we missed! We'll absolutely make revisions and updates.
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What is this Zapier really? What are some examples of what it can do?
These services that basically sound something like "With our tools, you can do anything with data!!" always confuse me.
Until otherwise convinced, I'm of the opinion that if you can do "everything", you do nothing.
Great document, so I'll bite, since they deserve it: What is this Zapier really? What are some examples of what it can do? These services that basically sound something like "With our tools, you can do anything with data!!" always confuse me. Until otherwise convinced, I'm of the opinion that if you can do "everything", you do nothing.
They've defined a bunch of methods for popular APIs. You can then pipe the results into another API.
e.g. Watch Disqus comments and auto send thank you mail
Send email attachments to your Dropbox
Create Trello cards from Evernote items
Checkout the Directory, then click on an item - you'll see all the possible interactions:
Looks cool, but I really get a little tweaked when incomplete things are shared like this. To me, it's not useful if I can't read through and work the whole guide, which leaves this one somewhere between email-bait to get updates on the end or just regularly incomplete.
Great document, so I'll bite, since they deserve it: What is this Zapier really? What are some examples of what it can do? These services that basically sound something like "With our tools, you can do anything with data!!" always confuse me. Until otherwise convinced, I'm of the opinion that if you can do "everything", you do nothing.
They connect APIs. They've defined a bunch of methods for popular APIs. You can then pipe the results into another API. e.g. Watch Disqus comments and auto send thank you mail Send email attachments to your Dropbox Create Trello cards from Evernote items Checkout the Directory, then click on an item - you'll see all the possible interactions: https://zapier.com/zapbook/
Oh wow, that's what I needed to see. Impressive. Almost overwhelming! Thanks