

Rather than hosted externally in documentation, which very easily could That you can rely on having an API reference inside the API itself, GitHub is very dilligent about maintaining and supporting its API in a way that most companies would do well to emulate.


New endpoints automatically sounds worrisome, don’t fret too much: GitHub changing an API because clients should be written to handle Their endpoints without recoding the client code. Goal behind hypermedia APIs is that clients can dynamically adjust Not all clients use this information, of course, but one First, you can see from the API response that each response contains a map with directions for the next responses you might make. Makes hypermedia interesting by just looking at a response. Hypermedia deserves an entire book of its own (check out O’Reilly’sīuilding Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node), you can absorb much of what What can we learn from this API response? Information, parameters are included in the URLs, and the Things to notice: there are a lot of URLs pointing to secondary We’ve abbreviated the response to make it more readable. We’ll start with the most basic GitHub API
JSON QUERY GITHUB INSTALL
If you are using Windows or want to manually install it, go to. CURL is usually installed on most OS X machines, and can easily be installed using Linux package managers (probably one of apt-get install curl or yum install curl).
