Notes for an "Intro to APIs" workshop.

apis-workshop.md

Intro to APIs - March 4-5, 2016

An introduction to working with URLs, JSON, APIs, and open data -- without writing any code.

URL of this document: bit.ly/intro-to-apis

You will need

• A laptop, with a working connection to the public Internet.
• A recent version of Firefox or Chrome.
• An extension installed for Firefox or Chrome to view JSON in your browser
  • Firefox: bit.ly/json-firefox
  • Chrome: bit.ly/json-chrome
  • Install beforehand.

Links that will come up

• Flickr: flickr.com/search
• Sunlight Congress API: sunlightlabs.github.io/congress
• GSA's Data Catalog: gsa.gov/data.json
• GSA's list of .gov domains: catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api-c9856
• JSON -> CSV converter: konklone.io/json/
• analytics.usa.gov
• pulse.cio.gov

Contact info

Eric Mill, [email protected], @konklone

Oddly enough, Eric, I happened across your Gist just now in Google while doing a search for API workshop materials. The list of .gov domains link is broken. Should it be this instead? https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api-c9856

Hope Open Data Day went well!

@arowla Yes, good catch, thank you!