Cool, thanks for that, Brad. I was just yesterday digging around on GitHub
and discovered this list:
https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs
By "digging around on GitHub" I mean I was exploring the "Discover"
dashboard, which is a kind of recommendation engine for repositories based
on your GitHub stars and follows. Fair warning, it's a rabbit hole:
https://github.com/dashboard/discover
Speaking of rabbit holes, here's another: https://github.com/explore
Happy hunting!
--Hardy
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Brad Coffield <[log in to unmask]>
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> Happy to hear it! If I can help at all, feel free to email me directly.
>
> Brad
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Patricia Farnan <
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> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This looks like a great resource for someone like me who isn't a
> developer
> > but wants to learn more about making use of APIs. Thanks for sharing!
> >
> > Patricia Farnan | Application Administrator, Discovery Services
> > University Library | St Teresa’s Library
> >
> > Telephone: +61 8 9433 0707 | Email: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > Brad Coffield
> > Sent: Tuesday, 12 December 2017 3:53 AM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] `APIs for Librarians` -- A thing I've been doing that
> > I'd like to share with you all
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I want to help people easily use web APIs to enhance their library
> > websites and/or research guides. So, I made a site that has
> copy/pasteable
> > code along with instructions on how to implement it (like what exactly to
> > change in the code to make it work with their libguides system, for
> > example).
> >
> > It's a project in ongoing development and I wanted to share it with you
> all
> > because:
> > * You're nifty
> > * Some (hopefully many!) of you might be interested in using some of
> > my code
> > * Some of you might be interested in contributing new pieces to the
> > site
> >
> > Currently I have implementations for various Springshare products,
> > Quotes.net, and a variety of collections from the Internet Archive. I
> have
> > plans on making things for the New York Times, Wordnik, OCLC, and
> > Chronicling America (from LOC).
> >
> > Would love to hear comments. I hope you like it.
> >
> > https://www.bradcoffield.com/APIs-for-librarians/
> >
> >
> > Brad
> >
> >
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