Web API Application

Assignment Goals:

• Build a JavaScript application object.
• Learn to use an online JSON data web API.
• Use ajax to get JSON data and show an appropriate error messages if the data cannot be obtained.

Web API

For this assignment, you may use any online web api that you would like. If you need some ideas, a search for "free web json api" on Google yielded a few lists put together by others:

• https://github.com/toddmotto/public-apis
• https://github.com/abhishekbanthia/Public-APIs
• https://any-api.com/

This is a very open ended project, but I will post a few more specific requirements later. For now, you can get started now by choosing an API and playing around with it. At a high level, you need to get JSON data from some web API and use that to build a web page in JavaScript, much like what we did for the weather page.

Requirements

• A functional web application - No points will be awarded for a non-functional application.
• You must use at least three different web API methods in your application.
  • For example with the Open Weather Map API
    • Get Current Weather
    • Get 5-Day Forecast
    • Get 16-Day Forecast
• Use Ajax to update your page with information from the service.
• Provide an on screen (not an alert) message if the request for data fails.

Presentation

You must be present in class to present your project, or you may video record your presentation and post it to YouTube sending a link to me through email so that the class can watch your video presentation.

The presentation should be about 10 minutes long - more than 1 min shorter or longer will result in fewer points.

The presentation must include:

• A quick overview of the web API chosen.
• Show the three web API methods you chose to use, pointing out any required input and an overview of the JSON returned.
• A walkthrough of your application object and its properties and methods.
• A walkthrough of your HTML page, showing where the dynamic data is loaded.
• A demo of your working application.