What’s your API’s “Time To 200”?

Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by KeepFlying on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:49PM (#27249223)

But you could give a short lived highly limited API key out for testing to allow the potential user to test the API for their needs before bothering to make an account and providing their personal information.

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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by stickfigure on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:45PM (#27249695)

How do you prevent someone from automating repeated "get new temp key"?

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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by mcint on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:16PM (#27249479)

Also, a way to register via that temporary api access

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Re:What’s your API’s “Time To 200”? by 256DEV on Saturday May 22, 2021 @03:54PM (#27249761)

KeepFlying's idea together with this point is a great suggestion, I'm going to see if I can prototype something along these lines.

Basically hand out tons of short lived credentials right from a widget on the main landing page, together with each API response giving a link to a signup form that can convert the key into a fully fledged account.

Thanks for the suggestion!

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