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Gnani Pasupula
Gnani Pasupula
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Posted by Gnani Pasupula
Gnani Pasupula
3,915 Points

How to make our own API ?

We use API for our apps but we can't get all kinds of API ,so how do we make them . In which software we can make them.

Adebayo Quadri
Adebayo Quadri
Courses Plus Student 631 Points

Check https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/endpoints/getstarted/backend/hello_world. It shows how to create a Simple Hello World Backend API. Hope this helps.

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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Any programming language can do it. Almost every programming language has a way to encode/decode json. You don't need special software. Its quite simple actually. You can have a simple API in less than 10 minutes. You simply just encode your data into json and then you can just put that code in its own template. Then simply send a GET request to get the json.

The hard parts are figuring out your endpoints, putting the right data points in the endpoint, rate limiting, API keys, security, and database schema.

I created a decent sized API recently and it took 9 days for me to finish doing all what I mentioned above. However getting a working prototype of a Get request took less than 10 minutes.