tips to rock at hackathons

Tips To Rock At Hackathons

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Nicolas Grenié (@picsoung) Dev Evangelist, 3scaleVanessa Ramos (@deepbane) Product Manager, APItools

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Which APIs to use?

My app


Quickly implement APIs

Authenticate Test & Debug No time for backend


Need a prototype working...

… in a really short period of time


{Hackathon} Profit

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Tips And TricksTo

Rock At Hackathons


5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons

1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing2. Authentication3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests4. Data type conversion5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

1. What is APItools and how to get an account

2. Get Twitter API keys

GettingReady


What is APItools?

My app APItools

Web APIs

★ Store traces★ Test & Debug★ Transform API traffic★ Analytics

requests

responses


Demo apitools.com


Step 1Dealing with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

Project source: https://github.com/picsoung/twitterDemoApp.git


Twitter API keys:https://apps.twitter.com/

Documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth


Step 2.1.

Postman


Step 2.2

APItools middlewarePart 2

https://gist.github.com/picsoung/3cdb87fd462bb0a754f9


Step 3Proxying mobile HTTP(s)

requests

Get code: https://github.com/vramosp/socialmusicapp/tree/noproxyGet solution: https://github.com/JaviSoto/JSTAPIToolsURLProtocol


Step 4Transforming RSS feed (Google News)

into JSON

https://docs.apitools.com/2014/05/06/transforming-an-rss-feed-into-json-with-apitools.html


Step 5Adding caching information to avoid rate limits

Documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/trends/place

Code: https://github.com/picsoung/twitterDemoApp/tree/step5-cache


Questions?

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