Free Online Course: Using the GitHub API with PHP Course provided by Treehouse is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for Less than 1 hour of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge.
Less than 1 hour of material
Self Paced
Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, provide a method for connecting your site to a “third-party” web service. We'll use the GitHub API to explore how RESTful APIs allow us to retrieve and update information residing on an external system.
An Application Programming Interface (API) provides a method for accessing 3rd party content directly, allowing you to integrate that content into your own application. cURL is a tool that allows you to communicate with external services before ever sending any information through a browser.
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Using the GitHub API Easy Access wrapper library, we'll create a GitHub Client application. Using OAuth tokens, we allow a user to authorize their GitHub account for sharing repository and user information with our application. Using this authorization, we will allow users to search, watch, and un-watch repositories.
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