A crate to help you interact with REST APIs.
APIs usually require you to set a custom user agent and to rate limit your requests, which I found to be pretty boilerplate in the various API-consuming programs I kept on writing. So, I figured I'd abstract all that boilerplate into this crate.
// Set the ratelimiting settings.
// In this example, you're allowing Hammock to fetch an API endpoint once per second.
// Hammock requests will block if you make requests faster than this, until it's been one second
// since the last request.
let duration = Duration::new(1, 0);
// Set the user agent that Hammock will use when making API requests.
let user_agent = "MyApiConsumer v0.1.1 (user@example.com)";
// Actually create the Hammock object.
let mut hammock = Hammock::new(duration, user_agent).unwrap();
// Make a GET request, get the response body back as plaintext.
println!("{}", hammock.get_text("http://some.website/api/get_users")?);
// Make a GET request; get the response body back as a Serde JSON object.
println!("{:#?}", hammock.get_json("http://some.website/api/get_users?fmt=json")?);- More customizable rate limiting
- Authentication
- Support for
POST,PUT, etc.
MIT. See the LICENSE file for more information.
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