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Accessing My Personal API

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As a software developer, I love working with APIs for different things. After seeing someone else put together their own “personal API” it got me thinking, why don’t I have my résumé available via an API? The API should be as stateless as possible, and only one endpoint should be available to a GET request. While it’s nowhere near being completed, it is in a state where I feel that I can go ahead and make it public. My personal API can be accessed either by a web browser or any other web tool at https://vendion.me/api and returns JSON. There are countless reasons for picking JSON over other formats for the return value that I won’t get into here apart from the fact that JSON is considered human-readable when compared to a format like XML.

Published Feb 8, 2015

About the Author

Adam Jimerson is a freelance software engineer based in Cleveland, Tennessee, with over 17 years of experience specializing in NixOS, Go, PHP/Laravel, and FreeBSD. He maintains several open-source projects and serves the Chattanooga.Digital community.

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