ProgrammingWiki-API

A REST API that serves programming concepts and offers a variety of filtering methods (random article, searching by title and tags)

Getting Started:

ProgrammingWiki-API does not require any API token, authorization or payment to work.

API Open Endpoints: https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/

Usage

GET all the articles https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/articles

[
    {
        "_id": "635ff0cc4912dde95273add8",
        "title": "Java",
        "content": "Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere, meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile.",
        "tags": [
            "Language",
            "Software-Development",
            "Web-Development"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    },
    {
        "_id": "635ff1834912dde95273adde",
        "title": "JavaScript",
        "content": "JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time compiled language that conforms to the ECMAScript standard. It has dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions.",
        "tags": [
            "Language",
            "Web-Development"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    },
    .
    .
    .
]

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GET a random article https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/random

[
    {
        "_id": "635ffec52de4cd52ee038381",
        "title": "Database",
        "content": "A database is a systematic collection of data. They support electronic storage and manipulation of data. Databases make data management easy.",
        "tags": [
            "DBMS",
            "Database"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    }
]

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GET a single article by title: https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/articles?q=REST

Add the title you want to search for in the URL parameters using 'q' key(i.e. Append a '?' to the url and append q=title, where title is the title you want to query).

Example: https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/articles?q=Javascript

[
    {
        "_id": "635ff1834912dde95273adde",
        "title": "JavaScript",
        "content": "JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web, alongside HTML and CSS. JavaScript is a high-level, often just-in-time compiled language that conforms to the ECMAScript standard. It has dynamic typing, prototype-based object-orientation, and first-class functions.",
        "tags": [
            "Language",
            "Web-Development"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    }
]

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GET articles by tags: https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/articles?tags=API&tags=Backend

Add the tags you want to search for in the URL parameters using 'tags' key (i.e. Append a '?' to the url and append tags=tag-name, where tag-name is the tag you want to query, if you have multiple tags to query then use & to separate the tags).

Example: https://programmingwiki.onrender.com/articles?tags=API&tags=Backend

[
    {
        "_id": "635ff41d860fe403c3f0148f",
        "title": "Node.js",
        "content": "Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on a JavaScript Engine (i.e. V8 engine) and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser, which was designed to build scalable network applications.",
        "tags": [
            "Web-Development",
            "Backend",
            "Runtime-Environment",
            "JavaScript-Framework",
            "Framework"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    },
    {
        "_id": "6360eeebbbd604d6985864e5",
        "title": "REST",
        "content": "REST is short for REpresentational State Transfer. It's an architectural style for designing APIs.",
        "tags": [
            "API"
        ],
        "__v": 0
    }
]

Some of the tags available are:

• Web-Development
• Languages
• API
• Framework
• Database
• Frontend
• JavaScript-Library
• Backend
• Network
• Software-Development

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Related: programmingwiki npm package

Install

npm install programmingwiki

Refer:

• npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/programmingwiki

• github: https://github.com/akiif/programmingwiki