HTTP Requests and API's

An introduction to HTTP requests and API's given at an event hosted by the Rutgers Undergraduate Student Alliance of Computer Scientists.

Transcript

1. HTTP Requests and API’s @eddiezane
3. Verbs • GET • POST • DELETE • … more!
4. What is an API?
5. ~ curl -X GET -v ipinfo.io * About to connect() to ipinfo.io port 80 (#0) * Trying 23.239.16.243... * Connected to ipinfo.io (23.239.16.243) port 80 (#0) > GET / HTTP/1.1! > User-Agent: curl/7.30.0! > Host: ipinfo.io! > Accept: */*! >! Request
6. < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Server: nginx/1.1.19 < Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 21:20:04 GMT < Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 < Content-Length: 222 < Connection: keep-alive < X-Powered-By: Express < ETag: "-1011676620" < Response
7. { "ip": "128.6.168.245", "hostname": "lawn-gw.rutgers.edu", "city": "Highland Park", "region": "New Jersey", "country": "US", "loc": "40.5032,-74.4289", "org": "AS46 Rutgers University", "postal": "08904" } Data
8. curl -X POST https://api.sendgrid.com/api/mail.send.json \ -d api_user=SENDGRID_USERNAME \ -d api_key=SENDGRID_PASSWORD \ -d to=your@email.com \ -d from=your@email.com \ -d subject=HelloFromHackNight \ -d "text=Hello there you fabulous lovely people"
9. https://github.com/usacs/hacknight/tree/ master/03-03-14