Welcome to the sixth blog of 52-technologies-in-2016 blog series. In this blog, we will learn how to write Scala REST API client for Medium’s REST API using OkHttp library. REST APIs have become a standard method of communication between two devices over a network. Most applications expose their REST API that developers can use to get work with an application programmatically. For example, if I have to build a realtime opinion mining application then I can use Twitter or Facebook REST APIs to get hold of their data and build my application. To work with an application REST APIs, you either can write your own client or you can use one of the language specific client provided by the application. Last few weeks, I have started using Medium for posting non-technical blogs. Medium is a blog publishing platform created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams. Evan Williams is the same guy who earlier created Blogger, which was bought by Google in 2003.
Medium exposed their REST API to the external world last year. The API is simple and allows you to do operations like submitting a post, getting details of the authenticated user, getting publications for a user, etc. You can read about Medium API documentation in their Github repository. Medium officially provides REST API clients for Node.js, Python, and Go programming languages. I couldn’t find Scala client for Medium REST API so I decided to write my own client using OkHttp.
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Shekhar Gulati 