I finally got my first API call to work after 8 hours

I was trying to pull weather data from OpenWeatherMap in Python. Turned out I forgot to add the API key to the URL string. How long did your first API integration take to actually work?

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gibson.sean1mo ago

After 8 hours" sounds like you are making it way more dramatic than it needs to be.

nina1801mo ago

You ever spend that long on something and then realize it was something super small you missed? I used to think people who made a big deal about API integrations were just being dramatic too, honestly. But after my first time wrestling with one for like 6 hours just to find out I had the wrong endpoint URL, I totally get it now. It's not the actual work that's hard, it's the tiny little details that trip you up when you least expect it. And once it finally clicks, it feels like such a win.