Get a foundational overview of APIs—a core piece of modern web development—in plain language. Learn what APIs are and how to work with them to incorporate data into websites.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- What is an API?
- What you should know
- What to expect from this course
- APIs in plain English
- The request and response cycle
- What is JSON?
- Parsing data
- Working with objects
- Connect to an API using XMLHttpRequest
- Connect to an API using jQuery methods
- Connect to an API using Fetch
- API documentation
- Make a request to the API
- Filter responses with parameters
- Access data in the response
- Use the response data in HTML
- Loop through the response data
- Authentication with an API key
- Make a request to the Giphy API
- Filter response with parameters
- Access data in the response
- Use the response data in HTML
- Response status codes
- How to handle errors
- Next steps
Taught by
Andrew Probert
