Show HN: One API Key – Third-Party API Integrations with Zero Setup Hey HN, we’ve been working on a way to simplify authentication with third-party APIs. This started because my co-founder andreterron ( https://ift.tt/vPZsm2A ) and I both built personal dashboards to track different health and productivity metrics, but it’s such an annoying chore to integrate with new APIs. First you read their docs to learn their authentication method, then build and deploy a custom server to receive OAuth callback requests or deal with CORS, register an app with them, then finally you can send the first request to their API. After the initial integration is done, you now have to refresh expired tokens, make sure that you’re respecting rate limits, and update the code if the underlying API changes. The solution we came up with is a proxy server, it forwards requests to the respective API with up to date auth tokens. Because of this: - Devs can use the full range of capabilities of the underlying APIs....
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