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When your API client is just Excel with a ‘Send Request’ button (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by dhruv3006@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you have decent documentation you shouldn't need an api client. https://justuse.org/curl/

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

My evangelism has worked evil laughter

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I occasionally use curl, and it’s annoying when you have secrets that need to rotate regularly or you need to change the middle of a URL. Also: Fuck quoting in the shell.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I put the secrets in environment variables, I don't what them to show up in the shell history anyway. Quoting can be a bit anything if you need nested quotes, but I hardly ever need that with curl.

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well having decent documentation is kind of rare.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

But is providing a special client for your api really less work than fixing your documentation?