Ask HN: What's the best Web based API you ever used?

5 points by orenbarzilai 11 years ago | 8 comments

We are designing an API for one of our products and would love to learn from the best. As a developer, what's the best (any why) Web based API you ever used?

nreece 11 years ago |

Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.

acc54321 11 years ago | |

Agreed.

aprdm 11 years ago |

I liked ones that I used and had Swagger documentation, that way you can easily make API calls in the API's documentation. Take for example pipedrive: https://developers.pipedrive.com/v1

manidoraisamy 11 years ago |

Parse. I like APIs you can copy/paste into javascript and build an MVP and worry about fail-proof server-side integration for production later.

wingerlang 11 years ago | |

Another vote for this one, felt like you were up and running within minutes. Used it with their iOS SDK.

eleumik 11 years ago |

Whatever web API I use I like it to be documented in automatic way so that is always up to date. Especially in first phase API changes, and I remember bad days spent in discovering the new version of some Facebook api before they get published..sort of MSDN black box hell

gxespino 11 years ago |

Another vote for stripe. I know of many junior web devs cutting their teeth on stripe. It's too easy.

gcatalfamo 11 years ago |

Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.