Working with 3rd Party APIs

Things to think about when you are about to work with remote APIs and a few things WordPress does to help.

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1. Working with 3rd Party APIs #Loopconf 2015 - Las Vegas
2. About Me Mike Hansen Open Source Team at Bluehost WordPress Core Contributor @MikeHansenMe mikehansen.me
3. An Idea Ideas are great but execution can be problematic.
4. Finding the API or Creating it
5. What To Look For Documentation How much is it being used How do they support old version
6. Workers or Products What is the difference?
7. How does WordPress Help HTTP API Option Transients Meta WP_Error more..
8. Fetching Data
9. Error Handling Deal with WP_Errors first then confirm the response is also a success.
10. Preparing Data Make lots of checks
11. Storing Data Transients Options User Meta Post Meta
12. Transients Transients work as a fallback for caching
13. Constants MINUTE_IN_SECONDS HOUR_IN_SECONDS DAY_IN_SECONDS WEEK_IN_SECONDS YEAR_IN_SECONDS
14. Trust Do not trust any data an API gives you. Treat it as user input.
15. Securing Data Validate Sanitize Escape
16. Authentication
17. Basic Header Validation Pass it with every request
18. Key in the Query Some APIs just want the key in the query.
19. Speed Keep the data close for as long as possible.
20. Timing Timing your request can improve the user experience.
21. About Me Mike Hansen Open Source Team at Bluehost WordPress Core Contributor @MikeHansenMe mikehansen.me
22. Credits and Resources trust image locket image mr. clean image handshake image stopwatch image speed image idea image search image storage image Data Validation HTTP_API Transients Options Basic Auth