Tag: APIs
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Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 3: Refactor
This is part three of my ongoing adventure in writing a Python interface to the Marvel API. If you’ve not read Part 1 about structure and Part 2 about adding requests then you may want to do that first. So we left off with a functioning interface for the Marvel API, but ended up with…
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Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 2: Requests
With my structure largely in place I was now ready to add functionality. To make things a little easier on me, I’ve decided to use the wonderful Requests Python library. It makes it significantly easier to make requests and handle responses, because it does all the heavy lifting for you. Discoveries I quickly discovered there’s…
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Writing my Python Marvel API Wrapper Part 1: Structure
A little while ago, Marvel released an API that allows you to get information on just about anything related to Marvel comic books. Be it a first appearance of a character, what series a specific writer was responsible for, or which characters were part of specific events in the Marvel universe, you can most likely…
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Video APIs and mobile devices
When developing websites it’s inevitable that you’ll come across the need to implement videos of some sort, and to save your own server’s bandwidth you’re using a video provider like YouTube or Vimeo. Now, it’s easy to just drop in the embed code where it’s needed. And there’s nothing wrong with that. However, embed a…