How to use Public API's

One of the best thing out there for developer's to get handful of data for the next project. Lets see what Public API's are in here.

Public API ?

The former is just self explanatory as this thing is just available to all and free to use and later (API-Application Program Interface) is what connects multiple software's. There are also private API's with propagates between Frontend and backend of a firm.

The best way to know of these wide varieties of API's is to explore the GitHub. Choose one of your favorite one.

How actually to use these!!

Here I'm gonna use MealDB to demonstrate the working.

Read the documentation (else we are just carrying a trolley which got wheels).
Fetch the data that you want to use.
Convert it to JSON format.
Access the data using native JavaScript Object access methods (dot or bracket notation).

Accessing a random meal from MealDB.

async function getRandomMeal() {     //ES6 async keyword for asynchronous flow of data
  const response = await fetch('https://www.themealdb.com/api/json/v1/1/random.php');    
//fetch URL which gives a random meal

  const responseJSON = await response.json();   //convert to JSON format
  const randomMeal = responseJSON.meals[0];   //access the meal data

  console.log(randomMeal);             //logs the output(random meal data)
}

Cool website using MealDB

As a part of Florin Pop's projects I created Chef'sHub website.

Fetches random meal
Add Favorite meals
Search for specific meal

View Site

since I'm new to API's I just followed the tutorial

Hope you all got something to take in from here. Share your thoughts and queries

Shamaayil Ahmed