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When your API client is just Excel with a ‘Send Request’ button (infosec.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by dhruv3006@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

If you have decent documentation you shouldn't need an api client. https://justuse.org/curl/

[–] dhruv3006@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well having decent documentation is kind of rare.

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

But is providing a special client for your api really less work than fixing your documentation?

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