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Ask HN: What's the best Web based API you ever used?

5 points by orenbarzilai ↗ HN
We are designing an API for one of our products and would love to learn from the best. As a developer, what's the best (any why) Web based API you ever used?

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manidoraisamy
Parse. I like APIs you can copy/paste into javascript and build an MVP and worry about fail-proof server-side integration for production later.
wingerlang
Another vote for this one, felt like you were up and running within minutes. Used it with their iOS SDK.
nreece
Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.
gxespino
Another vote for stripe. I know of many junior web devs cutting their teeth on stripe. It's too easy.
eleumik
Whatever web API I use I like it to be documented in automatic way so that is always up to date. Especially in first phase API changes, and I remember bad days spent in discovering the new version of some Facebook api before they get published..sort of MSDN black box hell
gcatalfamo
Do SDKs count? AWS has been great so far.