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Get Your API Right

An awesome list of points to make sure your API is pretty well thought out. Or at least common to other well made API’s :)

  1. Use HTTP
  2. Use Your Verbs
  3. Keep Your URL/URIs Consistent
  4. Use Your Status Codes
  5. Expose (And Accept) Multiple Data Formats
  6. Protect Your Users with OAuth
  7. Don’t Shut Off HTTP Authentication Entirely
  8. Document, Document, Document

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