Hi Brad,

This looks like a useful resource. I do have a question. Not knowing much about Springshare APIs, I see that your example includes a line of code

$.getJSON('https://lgapi-us.libapps.com/1.1/guides?site_id=foo1&key=foo2&status=1', function (result) {

that seems to expose a key (foo2) to public viewing. Is that key supposed to be a secret key that is not made public? Or is it OK to have it publicly exposed?

- Randy



Date:    Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:46:40 -0500
From:    Brad Coffield <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Re: `APIs for Librarians` -- A thing I've been doing that I'd like to share with you all

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 <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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

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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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