How To Work With Any API (API Tutorial using URL Requests)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ส.ค. 2024
- Learn how to work with any API using either their SDK or manually with web requests
In this video, I'll show an example of the Spotify API which has an iOS SDK and also an example of an OCR Text Extractor API from RapidAPI where we use Swift to manually make URL requests to the API endpoints.
You'll learn how to construct a web request in Swift, specify the header parameters, http body, http method and more!
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I would be super grateful for a more in-depth tutorial from you on how to implement Spotify's iOS API!! I've been having a lot of trouble trying to understand it and you explain swift really clearly. Thanks for all the helpful videos thus far!
Thanks for your suggestion, David! Glad that we are able to positively impact your learning journey! :-) -Arthur
Okay, I wrote a comment in which I was asking you about this video, but this video actually has been existed for a while, so... thanks once again!
Awesome, have fun learning! :-) -Arthur
I was finding APIs kinda hard to work with in Swift but you explained it really well. Thanks!
Glad to know this, thank you! -Arthur
Your content is amazing. You explain concepts really well!
Yay! Thank you so much! :-) -Arthur
Spoonacular :) Your videos are helping me out a lot thank you!
Glad we could be of help! Thanks for learning with us!
-Kat
You're so good at explaining complicated concepts simply. Thanks so much Chris
We value your support, Trang Doan! Cheering for you! :-)
You all prolly dont give a damn but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
I was dumb forgot the password. I love any tips you can give me.
You are awesome Teacher Buddy.. Thanks for helping the world to learn thing. Keep it up always.. thanks again
Our pleasure!
- Kat
THANK YOU!!!!!! This video is exactly what I was looking for!
You're so welcome, Aaron! All the best! :-) -Arthur
Spotify API , the playlists. You have great tutorials. About a few months I will join your courses
Thanks for dropping by and contributing! :-) -Arthur
you do amazing job and really I can track it easily even if I am a beginner for coding. Thank you very much !
Thank you so, so much! :-) -Arthur
Thank you so much for this video. I was the one who asked for RapidApi, and this stuff is actually pretty hard to figure out. Thank you for spending your time on helping us.
Cool! Glad we could help! 🙌
- Kat
Thank you Chris, I learned so much from your videos ... I would love to see how to work with USA food central API for calorie and nutrients search
Chris is an amazing teacher. I am considering registering to his website platform
You're more amazing, thank you so much! See you there! :-) -Arthur
Really liked the RapidAPI Tutorial! Just had a question: How would I access the data returned in the dictionary? EX: if I wanted to assign the value of the key "parsed text" (which the value was "Google") to a variable.
Thanks for your support!
Hello, you may want to watch our video on how to work with dictionaries
th-cam.com/video/mJwmGpdZQAg/w-d-xo.html
- Francis
Hey man thanks for the amazing vids! Do you reckon you could do a tutorial on implementing stripe into an app??
Thanks! It's on our long list of to-dos. :)
- Kat
Hey Chris, this is Nishanth from India. Your videos are awesome and I love it. You are the one who taught me Api calls and request way more easily.
Can you try some instagram Api.
Thank you Nishanth! Appreciate your support. Instagram API is included in our list! :)
- Kat
Great Person Good Trainer.........................
Thank you! 🙌
- Kat
Can you do a video on web scraping API like for Xcode?
Not many TH-camrs like yourself have videos dedicated to the topic. Plus having you do it means only quality results as your videos leave no stone unturned on how to do Xcodes.
ps, keep up the good work we all love it.
Thanks, Jesse! Can you kindly post your suggestion here? app.productstash.io/codewithchris#/ideas -Arthur
Your videos are very informative
That's what we love to know. Thank you so much! -Arthur
A full Spotify iOS SDK would be really appreciated! There are no tutorials up to date and I find it very hard to navigate in Spotifys documentation :)
And even in SwiftUI, even though I found a way to deal with it :D
Thanks for your suggestion! We'll see what we can do! :-) -Arthur
Just commenting to help my boy spice up the algorithm
Just replying to you because you're the best. :-) -Arthur
Hey Chris... I am a big fan of your tutorials.
Could you try to do a tutorial on how to use Microsoft MSAL to upload photos to OneDrive using multiple accounts?
Hello, Rafsan! Thanks for your suggestion! Can you kindly post that on our Ideas board? app.productstash.io/codewithchris#/ideas Thank you! -Arthur
I have to integrate login via instagram in my app. can you please tell me that whether instagram basic display api offers login or not. I think its not I searched alot about it. If not then what will be another way to use login feature in my app.
Hello, according to the documentation
"Instagram Basic Display is not an authentication solution. Data returned by the API cannot be used to authenticate your app users or log them into your app. If you need an authentication solution we recommend using Facebook Login instead"
however, you can use it to use access post and data from instagram
- Francis
I’m looking to work with Google Calendar, I want to represent a calendar in my app to represent a timetable. Any help? Thank you 👍🏻
That's a great idea! We have a couple of playlists to get you started on iOS app development. I would recommend starting here bit.ly/LearnSwift2019 and here bit.ly/BeginnersPlaylist
Then use this tool (approadmap.io) to know what you need to learn next!
- Kat
same problem I'm trying to solve. Did you find any good source?
Thank you!
You're so welcome, Vlad! -Arthur
Hi Chris, can you do a video explaining how to create a menu slide-in bar from the left if you click the three lines etc in the top left corner. I have tried to follow other people but I get confused easily. Thanks Alex
You can try using the ones on Github github.com/topics/sidebar-menu?l=swift
- Kat
Hi Chris;
Is an API defined by the URL host and then given to a programmer, or can an API be built without any host participation?
Hello, it is possible for an API to be build without a host, like everything is hardcoded or in a jsonfile, but it would be hard to keep it updated so whats why most API has a host
- Francis
I'm a new self taught web developer and I have a task to do to build a weather app and I'm really lost :D
and here I'm on my research journey ..
You got this! Shukran! -Arthur
quick question. i am very new to API, in one of your previous videos about what is an API, you called the api by simply executing the link (the news api) and you got the json response. so, in this example, if i had to generate the json response, using that method, would that be possible ? and would that be the correct approach ? will i be able to create a request using that method ?
"Hello, the response was from a server somewhere, if you wish to do the same then you need to make a server and have something to process data and return JSON from it, lots of things to set up really, to make it simple you can create your own JSON file locally and use that instead, check out our SwiftyJSON to help with easily managing JSON codewithchris.com/swiftyjson/
- Francis"
Hey Chris do you have any tutorials or resource links to share about connecting to microsoft GRAPH api?
Hey Chris, great video! A Spotify Web API tutorial would be awesome and super helpful!!
Thanks for your kind words and suggestion! :-) -Arthur
Very Nice.
Thank you! Cheers! - Pat
Apple Music and/or Spotify (in depth example) API's please :)
Yup, it's on our list!
-Kat
@@CodeWithChris Need this. Any timeframe?
@@CodeWithChris Spotify API run through would be great
Yes this would be amazing! Espeically Apple Music. Any updates??
Would really really appreciate this! Love your explanations.
hi thank you for this wonderful tutorial i really enjoy it; and i fully understand how to with API, PLS which API can i use to convert speech to text (speech to text API) and how can i use it
"Hello, usually you just need to use networking to be able to feed data into an API and get results from it.. if it has cocoapods it shoud be easier
to use cocoapods check out our article codewithchris.com/cocoapods/
- Francis"
Great great video. Chris can you please tell what is purpose of task.resume()?
Hello, task.resume() simply means that the task (like loading data from the url,etc) should be started or resumed (if paused)
- Francis
I was wondering about working with a api from League of Legends which gives the user a way to track their stats from playing, either as a casual player or a tournament player
You can add your tutorial request here: cwc.to/request
- Kat
I like your videos. How do you create the powerpoints for your videos? Are you using keynote or powerpoint?
Hello, we use an actual video editing software to produce our videos. :-) -Arthur
Would love to see some AI with tensorflow swift API. I want to see what the new iPhones processors are capable of in machine learning applications
You can code TensorFlow in Swift IIRC.
We might cover that in the future! Stay tuned!
-Kat
Facebook and Google Maps API!! Thank you
Thanks for these suggestions!
-Kat
CodeWithChris a vid going over Facebook graphrequest would be awesome cause a lot of their documentation is outdated so I’ve been running into sooo much trouble using that api. Thanks for all the other great vids! Keep up the good work!
Awesome tutorial man.... I would like you to look at Sassiholford api.... Thanks.
Thanks for dropping by! :-) -Arthur
Can a custom API be created to search for open education resources (OER)?
45 seconds in and I am trembling. Learning this seems so difficult. I hope to update soon that I conquered my fears and learned what to do.
We all start from somewhere, Eric! Just take it one lesson at a time, one day at a time. You got this. :) If you need help, post all your questions on our CodeCrew forum so that our technical support staff can assist you: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Enjoy the process! :) -Arthur
I am new to this, but can an API search the internet for specific tools to be used in an education setting?
Hi may I ask why instead of creating Networker file, you did it in the viewdidload ?
"Hello, this is just to demonstrate how to work with APIs there was really no need to make a separate file for networking because its just a short demo video
- Francis"
how can you use JSONDecoder to decode the dictionary that was made from the request since it is a type of [String:Any] and it needs to be a string. Sorry if this is a stupid question I am new to swift
"Hello, then you might need to change the Data Type of your [String:Any] to a [String:String] if thats the case, it needs to be an exact dara type match, you can also opt to typecast the value before setting it on your decoder
- Francis"
Hi Chris, a viewer request if u can also mention what is the best practice if we need to use any of solutions suggested at org level probably like banking or may be can have a video where u can help answer people from org where they need your expert advice
Thanks for your suggestion! Best to join our forum community then: codecrew.codewithchris.com -Arthur
I am trying to use infinite campus for schools any advice? on how to connect to it
Hello, it would be best to check their documentation or if they have a cocoapods for it
- Francis
Hi Sir.....I need your help.
I trying to get WiFi signal strength so that I can handle the situation like WiFi-Connected but signal strength is poor.
Currently iam using CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo, but it gives me only SSID, BSSID, SSID data
Thanks in advance.
Hello, maybe you can check out other ways to get data from your wifi network, try asking stackoverflow or maybe our forum at codecrew.codewithchris.com
- Francis
Hello Chris , How to use URLSession with access token and how to handle the token expiry scenario and fetch new token and sent in headers in same server request only.
"Hello, i suggest checking the documentation for that or maybe use a 3rd party tool like alamofire
- Francis"
Hey Chris, is there an API for AV Foundation and Still and Movie Access, Photo Album, and Barcode and QR Code Reader ?
QR Code Reader?!? Now that's already in the camera of iOS IIRC.
Hello, AVFoundation is not an API but it should be directly accessed as a library swift import. for still , imovie, qr code and the like a simple search in cocoapods.org should be able to help you integrate it easily on your app
- Francis
If I'm using SwiftUI , do I have to make any changes?
Hello, the base logic should be applicable even for SwiftUI as they both use the same base UIKit framework, the display of data might be a bit different though
- Francis
Hi Chris, I wanted to use the Yelp API Key for a project I'm currently working on.
Awesome, hope it works out just fine! :-) -Arthur
I am trying to have have Firebase observers still continue to run when my app is in the background. Is this possible?
I think so! You have to make sure you put your code in the right part of the app's lifecycle
Hello, firebase observers would probably be a cloud function on your firebase directly, however, if your firebase get is a stream it should be able to get and display any changes no matter what state your app is in
- Francis
Please consider doing a video on the US Census Bureau API.
Hi what about strapi api . In strapi can we get SDK???? If yes please provide the link
"Hello, as long as it is an API it should be fairly easy to set up, just align the properties properly and call the right API/web call and you should be good to go
- Francis"
The Agora api would be cool considering how popular cloud recording for video and audio is getting!
Great point! Thanks for watching! -Arthur
Gmail API and Maps, would be sick!!!
Sure, add your suggestion or vote for it if it's already in the list: codecrew.codewithchris.com/c/requests/
@AdrienVillez
Would be super awesome to make another video but using the Codable objects instead! Maybe even making a little toy API using Flask and calling the endpoints of that API instead.
Great suggestion, Iggy! We'll see what we can do! :-) -Arthur
Do they have any api's that would track shipments from all the major shipping companies in a lot of countries?
Hello, best if you post your question in our CodeCrew forum so that our tech support staff can guide you. Kindly go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thank you! -Arthur
I was wondering if you could make a video on using an api with a get endpoint! (if i'm even phrasing that right)
Thanks for your suggestion, Hellie! We'll see what we can do! -Arthur
printful api thx
Thanks for the suggestion!
- Kat
Hey Chris,
I'm looking to implement Yelp API and Indeed API. Any help with those would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hello, it would be best to check the documentation on how to use a specific API (depends on who provided it), you might also need to add it on your project by using cocoapods
- Francis
@@CodeWithChris Ok thank you I will check it out.
Hi Chris, thank you for amazing lesson... Is the same code For SwiftUI?
Awesome, Andrej! We're slowly releasing more SwiftUI content, so stay tuned! :-) -Arthur
Cool.... SwiftUi + Combine is Great Combination.... you can also create something around Combine + SwiftUi
Nihaopay!! I would love a tutorial!
Thanks for dropping by!
Trying to pull data from a GitHub repo using the GitHub API. I am having problems with the formatting of the URL string.
Hello, kindly post your question in our CodeCrew forum so that our tech support staff can assist you. Go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thank you! -Arthur
How do we send a data like
{
"customerId": "abcdefgh",
"logs": [
{
"distance" : 0.9,
"purpose" : "work related",
}
]
}
When I tried sending just this data using Jsonserialization, there are backslashes in my post body data
Would I need a class for encoding top level json object and another class for logs json object to properly encode my post data i.e without the backslashes? Any help appreciated. Thanks
Hello,
Unfortunately, we can't debug it for you in the comment section here but you can try joining and posting in our community: cwc.to/codecrew
--Joash
@@CodeWithChris no worries. I figured out. Thanks for replying
Icecast API would be great!
Thanks for your comment, Benjamin! -Arthur
Shopify please. Great vid
Thanks for the suggestion, Douglas! -Arthur
Hi Chris! I'm working with Swagger UI
Cool!
- Kat
I’m trying to take data from spreadsheets I fill out using google sheets and make and app to represent that data. Hoping this will work using an API. I’m new tocoding but my goal is to get this to work. 🤞🏻
Awesome, update us, Jesse! :-) -Arthur
Hi Chris. I really like your videos. I am learning a lot from you and will be becoming a subscriber of your very soon. I have a question for you. I am a inexperienced web developer and in desperate need of help. Do you offer any assistance to people in need of api help? I would be willing to pay you. I have numerous smart contracts deployed mostly on the ETH network and I need some help with making api calls because I don't really know how to code. I am trying to learn what I can but need help with making withdrawals and transfers from my smart contracts and honesly I'm just in over my head. Do you have any suggestions on the quickest method to learn to make api calls.? I would be grateful for any feedback. Thanks so much for your brilliant work. I hope to hear back from you.
Hey Brittney. You can post on our CodeCrew forum (codecrew.codewithchris.com) so our staff can assist you better. Thank you! - Pat
google translation api... it seems it's not listed in the video here but i'm looking forward to use it very soon
Thanks for dropping by! :-) -Arthur
I have a need to use firebase data via API (google API to get JSON)
Hello, you can check out part 1 of our firebase toturial for that th-cam.com/video/P1cNScXGlVI/w-d-xo.html. there will be some changes on setting up firebase as but the idea should be the same
- Francis
sensor tower and appannie is what i'm looking for~
Awesome, thanks for chiming in! -Arthur
I want to work with secured signing api for remote online notarization website
Please tell how I can integrate secured signing with my website?
Hello, kindly post your question on our CodeCrew forum so that our tech support staff there can assist you. Go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thanks for learning with us! -Arthur
I am trying to use the api-football api to get live scores on my website.I am not sure of the results I'll get. Anyone familiar with this API?
"Hello, I suggest checking if the API has documentation so you know what parameters to send and what the results/information to expect when getting results from the API
- Francis"
Hello Chris, i know this is like a year later, but i am learning, i know you asked which API that we are interested in seeing you show how to connect, anyways, i need to connect to REST API Shift4Shop, to retrieve my orders, trying to create an app that will monitor my orders. i think i learned enough from your videos, the issue is the jsonObject format is a little confusing of what i need to put in it. so any help would be greatly appreciated. i can send you a link for the api documentation or the project i am working n so far. maybe i am asking too much
Hi, you can post your concern on our CodeCrew forum. Link is codecrew.codewithchris.com. We'll have our tech support staff help you out. - Pat
I'm working with the Zora API to build an app that displays an NFT gallery!
That's great! Good luck! - Pat
How would you go about protecting api keys from reverse engineering?
"Hello, i guess it would be safe to hide your API keys inside some sort of encrypted file instead that only you know how to read and immediately convert and use on yourr app
- Francis"
Hey can you work with TFL api
lets make struct based on a veeery complicated json :)) and with types like Date for example :))
Hello, maybe some api pulls can be quite tricky specially from social media, try it out :). but hey ready json is quite easy not because of all the tools like SwiftyJSON
codewithchris.com/swiftyjson/
- Francis
Hey Chris - Guru API
Thank you! -Arthur
What about putting an authorization heater?
Hi Sergio. We suggest posting on our CodeCrew forum and have our tech support staff assist you. Here's the link codecrew.codewithchris.com - Pat
Can you try TripAdvisor API cause I'm trying to make an app with it.
We implemented a new voting system to publish tutorials that are requested, please add your here: codecrew.codewithchris.com/c/requests/
@AdrienVillez
Hi there, You have many REST API videos, Any video about sending wordpress posts to external REST API ? Any information , Pls let me know THANKS
Hello, best to post this question in our CodeCrew forum so that our technical support staff can assist you. Go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thanks for learning with us! -Arthur
Good bro , can you get API express Carding for this method ?
Hello, it would be best to check the documention on how to use an API (depends on who provided it) , you might also need to add it on your project by using cocoapods
- Francis
@@CodeWithChris Thanks brother for your answer
I mean, I would like to extract an api for a site that adds donate and work me in my server with it and is it possible because I am very interested in this topic only to check BIN CODE < live
Please answer...
I'm attempting to use and API for Web of science
I have a Shopify site I want to market, How can I run API to market my site?
Hello, best to post your question in our CodeCrew forum so that our tech support staff can assist you. Go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thank you! -Arthur
Does this work with SwiftUI
Hello, kindly post your question in our CodeCrew forum to receive guidance. Go here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thank you! -Arthur
What would you do if the API you are using doesn't require a specific body type? In other words, how would you present the data if there is no body to turn into a JSON in the first place? I'm trying to use the NBA statistics API, rapidapi.com/api-sports/api/api-nba?endpoint=5bb7706be4b02d6cfa6a812a.
How do I create a JSON with what I'm given?
Thanks for the support.
Hello, i suggest looking att SwiftyJSON so you can easily work with JSON data, we have a nifty tutorial for it codewithchris.com/swiftyjson/
- Francis
I want to use Exposure Notification API but it says that I need to be whitelisted
"Hello, you might need to check the API documentation or support for that
- Francis"
acuity api for appointments, I need authentication help, please
"Hello, sorry we dont have specific api samples, maybe you can check out our alamofire article it can help with connection and authentication, you might also need to check the documentation of the api you are using
codewithchris.com/alamofire/
- Francis"
What API’s are the best for deep learning chat bots
Hello, i suggest using github's search feature to be able to see all the available public chat apis
something like this github.com/search?q=deep+learning+chat
- Francis
Thank you!!
I am trying to make a script that makes an api request to remove.bg api
Hello, our tech support staff might be able to help you. Post your question here: codecrew.codewithchris.com. Thank you! -Arthur
A WordsAPI tutorial!
Thanks for dropping by! :-) -Arthur
can u make a video on The MBTA API like a complete walkthrough from scratch please
Hello, can you post your suggestion here: app.productstash.io/codewithchris#/ideas -Arthur
Can you do a tutorial with the basketball reference API
Thanks for your suggestion, Jordan! Can you kindly post it here? app.productstash.io/codewithchris#/ideas Thanks! -Arthur
Hii,
Could you please make tutorial on scorm cloud API...
Thanks for the suggestion! You can add your tutorial requests here: cwc.to/request
- Kat
I wish that you would cover displaying JSON data.
Thanks for your insight! -Arthur