This tutorial’s main aim and function are to describe how to hide an API key within the context of the COVID-19 data API. Let’s look at a step-by-step guide on connecting to the COVID-19 data API, retrieving data from the API, hiding the API key, and accessing the API with the hidden API key. Getting an API Key The COVID-19 data API is a Freemium …
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Using the Facebook API with Ruby to Build a COVID-19 Statistics Bot
The COVID-19 pandemic is still ongoing and it has brought along with itself a plethora of data, which is being made available by various APIs. In this article, we'd like to take advantage of one of them, and at the same time teach you how to build a simple Facebook Messenger Bot in the process. What we'll build We're going to build a Messenger …
How To Use the WhatsApp API with Python
Whatsapp is an incredible tool for engaging in a text conversation. With the global crisis around the COVID-19 looming large, WhatsApp is also a congregation point for people to share knowledge and information related to the pandemic. But, as we all experience, too much information is hard to follow. So we asked ourselves this question. How can …
Developers Respond to COVID-19
The past few weeks have been challenging and uncertain. As the coronavirus situation continues to evolve, we are proud of our developer community — and the projects they have come up with to help track and understand COVID-19. We wanted to share how developers have responded to this crisis, and display some of the great projects we have seen so …