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by arethuza 5126 days ago
I now know how I like Web APIs to work: Give me the URL and let me go at it with cURL and some scripts to parse the your JSON.

[Been using the Salesforce REST API recently, and apart from the process of getting your OAuth token, it's really rather good].

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Yes, I was rather pleasantly surprised with the Pivotaltracker API. I managed to get it integrated in our hour registration within 30 minutes.

Check; https://www.pivotaltracker.com/help/api

All calls have ready cURL examples you can copy/paste and try. Prototyping is fast.

And no OAuth. OAuth could be good if it were standardized (and thus would work with a single library without any extra tinkering); it's horrible all over the place. I understand this fanatical obsession with security and such, but just make me login and get a token back.

Anyway; Hooray for Pivotal! (Again)