Survey of API Pain Points

Want to know the biggest headaches when in comes to API integration?

Read the survey results from YourTrove, who ran the survey on Hacker News.

Not surprisingly, the pains are:

• Poor documentation (how you loathe poor documentation)
• OAuth (oh wow, do you hate OAuth)
• Poor error handling
• Lack of example code
• Lack of test environments
• Lack of standardized libraries across languages
• APIs that change/break frequently (huge shout out to Facebook here, like you're surprised)
• Normalizing data to match internal data structures
• Line between use and abuse
• Arbitrary throttling (differences between services)
• Differing standards (REST v SOAP v XML-RPC, XML v JSON v POST, versioning v not, etc.)
• Getting services to talk to a dev machine behind a firewall