The document provides tips for using APIs effectively at hackathons. It outlines 5 tips: 1) dealing with cross-origin resource sharing, 2) authentication, 3) proxying mobile HTTP requests, 4) converting data types, and 5) adding caching to avoid rate limits. It then gives steps and code examples for implementing each tip using APItools, a platform for testing, transforming, and managing API traffic. The overall document aims to help developers quickly build functioning prototypes by leveraging APIs and APItools at hackathon events.

1. Tips To Rock At
Hackathons
http://bit.ly/apitoolsworkshop
Nicolas Grenié (@picsoung) Dev Evangelist, 3scale
Vanessa Ramos (@deepbane) Product Manager, APItools
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Which APIs to use?
My app

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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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{Hackathon} Profit
APItools is here to help
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Tips And Tricks
To
Rock At Hackathons

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

8. 1. What is APItools and how
to get an account
2. Get Twitter API keys
Getting
Ready

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What is APItools?
My app APItools
Web APIs
★ Store traces
★ Test & Debug
★ Transform API traffic
★ Analytics
requests
responses

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Demo apitools.com

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Step 1
Dealing with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
Project source: https://github.
com/picsoung/twitterDemoApp.git

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Twitter API keys:
https://apps.twitter.com/
Documentation: https://dev.twitter.
com/docs/auth/application-only-auth

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Step 2.1.
Postman

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Step 2.2
APItools middleware
Part 2
https://gist.github.com/picsoung/3cdb87fd462bb0a754f9

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Step 3
Proxying mobile HTTP(s)
requests
Get code: https://github.com/vramosp/socialmusicapp/tree/noproxy
Get solution: https://github.com/JaviSoto/JSTAPIToolsURLProtocol

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Step 4
Transforming RSS feed (Google News)
into JSON
https://docs.apitools.com/2014/05/06/transforming-an-rss-
feed-into-json-with-apitools.html

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Step 5
Adding caching information to avoid rate limits
Documentation: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.
1/get/trends/place
Code: https://github.com/picsoung/twitterDemoApp/tree/step5-
cache

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5 Tips To Rock At Hackathons
1. Deal with Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
2. Authentication
3. Proxy mobile HTTP(s) requests
4. Data type conversion
5. Add caching information to deal with rate limits

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Questions?

25. Thank You
and
Happy Hacking!
@apitools - hello@apitools.com
nicolas@3scale.net, vanessa@3scale.net