A Web-based Tool to Semi-automatically Import Data from Generic REST APIs
Mauro Bieg · Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich) · 2014
Most public Web APIs currently have no machine-readable documentation and are structurally rather diverse.Nonetheless, these APIs are often our best bet to access the valuable information they provide in a relatively structured manner.We introduce a tool which provides a web-based GUI to map any JSON-based REST-like API within minutes, and subsequently access the mapped APIs through a wrapper hypermedia API, and thus in a uniform manner.This enables even teams with very limited resources to keep track of dozens of Web APIs that frequently roll out new versions.