Get APIs for your software project
In this article, I am going to discuss how you can get an API for your project.
The easiest way to get any API is from the RapidAPI hub. https://rapidapi.com/
RapidAPI is the world’s largest API Marketplace. Developers use Rapid API to discover and connect to thousands of APIs. Using RapidAPI, developers can search and test the APIs, subscribe, and connect to the APIs.
Let's see how you can use these APIs for your project.
First, you have to make an account. For this, you can signup using your Gmail, GitHub, Facebook or providing your work email and a suitable password.
After login, you will redirect to a page that contains all the APIs you can get for your project.
Here you can see so many categories of APIs that you can use for your own projects.
Examples:
Travel Advisor API — To get all the hotels, restaurants, and attractions around the world
Openweather API — To get real-time weather around the world
Now let's see how you can use any APIs for your project. For this, I am using the Travel Advisor API.
- In the search bar type Travel Advisor API. Now you will direct to the below page.
2. To use this, you have to subscribe to the test. For that, click the Subscribe Test button. Then you will direct to a page that includes the price details.
3. Now you can select the pricing method according to your requirement. If you just need to test the project you can use the Basic price-free of charge.
4. Then go back to endpoints in your header.
5. Here in the left sidebar you can see different types of requests you can make. You can select any of those according to your requirement.
6. After selecting the request method you can test the endpoints by clicking the test endpoints button (optional).
7. Then you can select the code for the API by clicking Code Snippet on the right bar.
8. The most important thing is you can change this code according to the language you used for your project. For that click the dropdown. There you can see all the language that you can change the code.
9. Now you have to select your project language and just copy and paste this code for your project.
According to the same procedure you can use any API from this RapidAPI hub for your project.
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