Can you suggest some good example of some real-world and really well-done REST web api?
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Amazon's REST API and Google's Search REST API are both good examples. eBay and PayPal also offer RESTful APIs, but I can't say that I've used them.
Bill the Lizard
2008-11-01 21:13:59
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Twitter offers RESTful APIs. As per Twitter documentation the Twitter API conforms vaguely to the design principles of Representational State Transfer (REST).
bhadra
2008-11-09 04:16:41
Twitter's API is not RESTful because they use application/xml and a custom vocabulary. That fails the self-descriptive constraint. Also there is very little use of hypermedia within their representations. Prior knowledge of multiple endpoints is required to access all the features of the API.
Darrel Miller
2009-05-29 00:01:39
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I suggest that one should read, at least, the following blog posts by Roy T. Fielding before concluding about REST APIs
bhadra
2008-11-17 18:20:24
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After Maglob's pointer to the AtomPub and some further research, I find Google Data APIs to be quite an inspiring source of information about how to structure RESTful web APIs in a proper way (with exploiting all the benefits of the technologies that underlie it).
Milan Novota
2008-12-14 19:11:41
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Sun Cloud API. One of the few hypertext-driven (and therefore RESTful) APIs I know of.
Rich Apodaca
2009-08-31 16:24:05
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I second Bill's recommendation of Netflix. The Blinksale API is pretty good, too. It places a little too much emphasis on the URI structure and the many "entry points"; it could be improved with a document that has some URI templates to reduce the dependency of clients on URI structure.
Stefan Tilkov
2010-01-04 20:24:09
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The the photo sharing site, Flickr has a great RESTful API and is the one I learned from. It seems to do good job of exploiting the nature of REST in the real world.
From the site:
Photo Upload API
Scott Saad
2010-02-05 03:52:01