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What is the best way to learn to use social network API's?

  • I have a fair amount of programming experience but would like to start using social network API's (Twitter/FB/Quora) for some side projects. What is the best way to learn to use these API's effectively?

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    Personally I learned to use the facebok graph API trying use it on my website. Although my answer is probably not going to sound very helpful, but I think the best way to learn is it to start using it on your project using the SDK. Then you can try to understand the SDK code, read the documentation of the API, and learn more about json to get a good grasp of how things work at the backend. It also helps to conceptualize APIs as backboxes with a number of functions, which you can use to get information, or to interact with the system.

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Code Academy has a good intro class to  using APIs with Ruby and a Twitter specific classs: http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/twitter.

Sylvain Carle

The best way to learn is through experience. Building an aggregator might be fun (for example, a photo aggregator across multiple services, or a contact book that examines friends from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). It forces you to use multiple different sites' APIs in a somewhat non-trivial setting, especially as you convert data across different schemas

Tom Schmidt

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