[jstimpfle]

If you have to do this, the structure of your program might be wrong.

Don't check the return value of a call to the same API multiple times. Make it such that all calls to the API go through the same code that you write, so you have to check the return value only "once". This may sound extreme, but it's pretty close to what you can realistically achieve.

You can achieve that trivially by exiting if something goes wrong when calling the API. And where exiting is not possible because it's a longer running application, concerns have to be separated: If there are multiple pieces of code that need the same data, feed those pieces the data they need from a central location that interfaces with the API. And have the error handling logic (which is usually higher level control logic) in the central location.