The document discusses the use of Apitools to streamline the development process for hackathon participants by managing and monitoring APIs. It highlights features such as authentication, data format conversion, and the benefits of not needing to share keys among team members. The document provides a detailed flow for integrating and testing APIs, emphasizing practical usage during hackathons.

1. Making Hacker’s Life Easier
at Hackathons
Barcelona Music Hack Day 2014
by
Manfred Bortenschlager (@ManfredBo)
API Evangelist, 3scale.net

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Integrating APIs to increase functionality
My app
Maybe many others…

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Quickly implement APIs
Authenticate Test & Debug No time for backend

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Need a prototype working...
… in a really short period of time

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APItools is here to help
{Hackathon}
+ = Developer
Happiness

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What is APItools ?
1. Managing & Monitoring APIs
2. Modifying API calls
apitools.com

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How does it work ?
My app APItools
★ Manage APIs
★ Test & Debug
★ Modify API traffic
★ Analytics
requests
responses
Web APIs
Others…

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Practical usage of
APItools
at Hackathons

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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion
3. (Add caching to deal with rate limits)

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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion

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Demo flow
My App
Signup & get API key
Test APIs
Configure
Testagain
Monitor

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Demo flow
1. Create account at API provider and get key
2. Test API with POSTMAN
3. Configure APItools
4. Test API with POSTMAN via APItools
5. Analyse in APItools

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Demo
“Authentication / key sharing”

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Benefits
 No need to add key to URL (less errors)
 No need to share keys with others teams or
members
 One place to manage all keys

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APItools use cases
1. Authentication / key sharing
2. Data format conversion

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Demo flow
Get bicing API endpoints
(Somehow…)
Configure
Get XML response
Get JSON response
Develop middleware

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Demo flow
1. Configure bicing API endpoint in APItools
2. Get XML response in POSTMAN
3. Create transformation middleware in APItools
4. Get JSON response in POSTMAN

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Demo
“Data format conversion”

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Benefits
 Customize returned data
 Change quality (transform, adapt)
 Change quantity (reduce load)

20. Out-of-the-Box API Management

21. Out-of-the-Box API Management

22. Out-of-the-Box API Management

23. Happy Hacking!
@apitools - hello@apitools.com
@ManfredBo
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