Using the GitHub API with PHP Course (How To)

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.

What you'll learn

• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Authentication
• OAuth
• cURL
• JSON

Communicating with a RESTful API

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.

Chevron 5 steps

• Introducing APIs and the Project

  1:51

• Making a RESTful Request

  4:52

• RESTful APIs

  5 questions

• Communication with cURL

  5:39

• Using cURL

  1 objective

Creating a GitHub Client

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.

Chevron 9 steps

• Using a Wrapper

  3:44

• GET Search and Results

  3:49

• Wrapper Library and API Object

  5 questions

• Authenticate with OAuth

  7:26

• POST Request to Watch Repository

  9:46

• Sharing Functionality in the Application

  2:39

• Following a User

  1 objective

• Adding More Features

  0:42

• Final Review

  8 questions