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Posterous recently launched a
new API giving users access to all the functionality available through the Posterous web interface.
Instead of just delivering documentation for the
Poserous API, they went a step further and made the documentation smarter, and more interactive.
Think
API explorer meets
API documentation. The Posterous API documentation provides a list of all API services, endpoints, and methods, but it doesn't stop there.
When logged into your Posterous account, the API documentation automatically includes your api_token, which is necessary for making API calls.
Once authenticated you can make any call against the API right in the documentation. Each endpoint allows entry of necessary fields, displays a request URL, and a JSON response message.
This type of interactive API documentation allows developers to learn and explore how an API works in a live environment, making real calls.
This approach to delivering API documentation steps up the game a little bit, and the same old type of documentation may not do anymore.
