Getting Started with API Documentation
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Introduction (1:48)
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What will you learn? (2:38)
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What is an API? (2:57)
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Benefits from using an API (3:11)
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How does an API work? (3:14)
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Who creates API and API documentation? (4:00)
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What is an API documentation? (4:50)
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Types of APIs (1:34)
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Who reads API documentation? (2:49)
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API documentation - examples (17:47)
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API documentation framework (0:31)
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API documentation - structure (1:04)
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Step 1 (0:22)
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Step 2 (1:10)
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Step 3 (0:31)
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Testing an API call (3:02)
Writing API Documentation Using Swagger
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Writing API documentation using Swagger UI (0:20)
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Agenda (1:02)
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What is Swagger? (0:52)
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Benefits from using Swagger for writing API documentation (3:47)
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Step 1: create new API (1:29)
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Demo (2:50)
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Step 2: create the API introductory page (0:56)
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Step 2.1: edit the API info (0:55)
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Sample introductory info (0:20)
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Demo (3:20)
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Step 2.2: edit the API contacts and links to further documentation (5:58)
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Sample contacts and documentation link (0:56)
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Step 3: define the tags of your API (5:30)
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Step 4: define the API operations and paths (3:50)
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Sample API operation and path (0:40)
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Demo (1:34)
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Step 5: document the API parameters (1:14)
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Sample parameters (3:35)
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Step 6: document the API responses (0:34)
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Sample response (1:55)
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Step 7: export the API documentation (1:59)
Writing API Documentation Using Postman and GitHub Wiki Pages
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Section introduction (5:32)
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What will you learn in this section? (1:00)
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Tools we will use (1:40)
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What's the story? (2:02)
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What is Postman? (1:18)
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Downloading and getting to know Postman (4:03)
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Using Postman, document the usage of the Stripe API (2:03)
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Step 1 (5:08)
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Step 2 - part 1 (4:27)
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Step 2 - part 2 (0:41)
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Step 3 (3:13)
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Step 4 (8:27)
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Step 5 (33:54)
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