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Top five APIs that can help you build weather applications. 🌦️

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1️⃣ Visual Crossing Weather

Visual Crossing Weather API provides instant access to both historical weather records and weather forecast data.

rapidapi.com/visual-crossin…
2️⃣ Open Weather Map

Get weather and weather forecasts for multiple cities.

rapidapi.com/community/api/…
3️⃣ Dark Sky

The easiest, most advanced, weather API on the web.

rapidapi.com/darkskyapis/ap…
4️⃣ Forecast

Get 16 days of weather forecast data.

rapidapi.com/wettercom-wett…
5️⃣ Tides

Global Tides API provides tidal heights predictions at any location of the World Ocean.

rapidapi.com/apihood/api/ti…
Visit RapidAPI Hub (RapidAPI.com/category/Weath…) for more such excellent APIs. πŸ™πŸš€

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Jan 24
What exactly is an API Key?

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Let's first talk a bit about APIs.

API is an interface that allows the software to communicate via the internet. In simple terms, APIs are how apps talk to each other.
To call those APIs, you need an API key to establish a communication path between software.

An API key is a unique code for every user which lets you call an API.
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Jan 20
There are 9 HTTP request methods:

- GET
- PUT
- POST
- HEAD
- TRACE
- PATCH
- DELETE
- OPTIONS
- CONNECT

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HTTP request methods are the actions initiated from the client-side to perform certain actions.

These HTTP request methods are sometimes called nouns or referred to as HTTP verbs.
πŸ“Œ GET

The GET method is the most common of all these request methods. It is used to get the desired resources from the server.

The GET methods don't affect the state of the server.
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Jan 19
Millions of websites are using API somehow in today's era.

It's imperative to optimize your API to provide a better user experience.

Here are five ways to optimize your API performance and make it stand out. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡πŸ»
1️⃣ Use rate-limiting strategy

There might be a case where the user executes a loop, causing many API requests that can slow down your API performance.
In order to avoid such scenarios, use rate-limiting factors and limit the specific number or request in the given time period.
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Jan 18
A brief introduction to Axios in the following five tweets.

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Axios is a simple promise-based HTTP client using which you can send HTTP requests.

Let’s look at how you can perform API requests using Axios. πŸ‘‡πŸ»
To use `axios` for requesting APIs, you need to install it first in your project.

Run this command in order to use `axios` in your project.πŸ‘‡πŸ» Image
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Jan 13
Use these ten excellent facial recognition APIs to create full-stack applications.

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1️⃣ Face Detection and Facial Features

This API provides face coordinates for all faces detected in an image.

rapidapi.com/eyerecognize/a…
2️⃣ Mirror-AI

Upload photos and get personalized avatars and emojis for your users.

rapidapi.com/mirror-dev-tea…
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Jan 12
Increasing your API adoption is tedious, and sometimes tricky than building it.

But intuitive documentation can provide a good developer experience resulting in more API consumers.

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API documentation is generally extensive, covering everything about API.

There is no hard-and-fast rule writing API documentation, yet following some conventions can make your API stand out.
Typical API documentation should cover the following sections to make it simple and developer-friendly. πŸ‘‡πŸ»
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