How to start playing with the REST API?

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2 min readJun 1, 2017

Everything is connected right now. You fridge talks to watch, watch talks to a mobile phone, mobile phone talks to literally everything. When those devices are talking they mostly using REST API. So learning REST API is like learning the new way of communication that not only machines understand. REST API visually looks beautifully so people can learn it too :P

With the Sheetsu.com is super easy to learn REST API. With our service, you can push and pull data to and from Google Spreadsheet. Push and pull from where? Wherever you want from. From iPhone or Android App, from a website. If you want to you can make Raspberry Pi talking with Google Spreadsheet.

REST API without installing compilers any additional software and in less than 2 minutes.

  1. Go to your Google Drive and create new Spreadsheet file.
  2. Go to Sheetsu.com login and make the first API in 9 seconds (see bellow)
API creation in Sheetsu.com that connects your Google Spreadsheet via REST API to Internet. GIF: 1 of June 2017.

3. Go back to you Google Spreadsheet file and add data to the first sheet. We are going to store email list in that Spreadsheet file. So we need to have columns like name, last_name and email. One more thing rename Sheet 1 to emails.

Format Google Spreadsheet document. GIF: 1 of June 2017.

4. Go to hurl.it and test HTTP request … ;)

First check if You know how to build POST request in hurl.it. If succeded move to coding ;D . GIF: 1 of June 2017.

If you want to learn more about how to connect your Google Spreadsheet via REST API provided by Sheetsu.com to crazy world of the Internet just go to https://docs.sheetsu.com/

Don’t want to read see the movie ;)

Google Spreadsheet REST API made easy with Sheetsu.com

Drop us an email at team@sheetsu.com. We are happy to talk with you.

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