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A spec for Humanized web APIs, aka HAPI. The goal of HAPI is to define a standard for creating Web-based APIs that are machine ready but human friendly— a self-documenting API.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2014-02-07 · latest 2018-04-19

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  1. https://github.com/jheising/HAPI or REST
    comment by Petrakis · 2018-04-19 · in Ask HN: Best way to input data to a RasPi, from browsers on the same LAN?
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    A spec for Humanized web APIs, aka HAPI
    story by rdoherty · 2014-05-02 · 3 comments
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    A spec and implementation for Humanized web APIs
    story by smharris65 · 2014-02-08 · 0 comments
  4. …of taking an action other than retrieval. These methods ought to be considered "safe".[2] [1]: https://github.com/jheising/HAPI#general-rules [2]: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
    comment by ville · 2014-02-07 · in ShowHN: dweet.io – Twitter for machines
  5. Correct, it's not RESTifarian. It's HAPIfarian! :) https://github.com/jheising/HAPI
    comment by Bug_Labs · 2014-02-07 · in ShowHN: dweet.io – Twitter for machines
  6. The first line of the documentation says that it uses a "HAPI-REST API". https://github.com/jheising/HAPI
    comment by robdor · 2014-02-07 · in ShowHN: dweet.io – Twitter for machines