A few months ago, I started spending a lot more time working with different APIs. At first, I...
A few months ago, I started spending a lot more time working with different APIs.
At first, I thought authentication would be the hardest part. Once OAuth was working and I could successfully make requests, I assumed everything else would mostly be connecting the dots.
It didn't take long to realize I was wrong.
The real challenge wasn't getting data. It was figuring out what that data actually meant.
The docs only show the happy path
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