Consuming APIs with C# for beginners - Part 1
Channel: Peter
Date: 10/11/2020

We're going to explore what APIs are, how to utilize them from within our C# applications, and we're of course going to learn a bit about .NET and C#! 🎉


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Chapters
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:23 - Getting web content without APIs
00:03:40 - How to find APIs?
00:04:37 - Explaining JSON responses
00:07:22 - Explaining JSON syntax
00:11:15 - Getting data from an API
00:11:40 - Side note: API keys
00:13:22 - Getting API data with C#
00:14:45 - About HttpClient
00:20:05 - Tangent about instance variables
00:22:33 - Back to HttpClient
00:25:40 - Issuing a GET request
00:32:20 - Reading the response
00:37:55 - Tangent about escaping string characters
00:40:54 - Parsing JSON
00:47:00 - Creating the object model
00:51:17 - Deserializing JSON
00:58:16 - Outro