I think that you could use a POST or PATCH method to handle this since they typically design for this. Using a POST method is typically used to add an element when used on list resource but you can also support several actions for this method. See this answer: Update an entire resource collection in … Read more
The Wiktionary API can be used to query whether or not a word exists. Examples for existing and non-existing pages: http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=test http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=testx The first link provides examples on other types of formats that might be easier to parse. To retrieve the word’s data in a small XHTML format (should more than existence be required), request … Read more
You can add a header parameter to your request, and Swagger-UI will show it as an editable text box: swagger: “2.0” info: version: 1.0.0 title: TaxBlaster host: taxblaster.com basePath: /api schemes: – http paths: /taxFilings/{id}: get: parameters: – name: id in: path description: ID of the requested TaxFiling required: true type: string – name: auth … Read more
MediaWiki’s API is running on Wikipedia (docs). You can also use the Special:Export feature to dump data and parse it yourself. More information.
Thanks for all your answers. Free currencyconverterapi: Rates updated every 30 min API key is now required for the free server. A sample conversion URL is: http://free.currencyconverterapi.com/api/v5/convert?q=EUR_USD&compact=y For posterity here they are along with other possible answers: Yahoo finance API Discontinued 2017-11-06### Discontinued as of 2017-11-06 with message It has come to our attention that … Read more
If there are documented best practices, I have not found them yet. However, here are a few guidelines I use when determining where to put parameters in an url: Optional parameters tend to be easier to put in the query string. If you want to return a 404 error when the parameter value does not … Read more