API

Learnings from Jeff Richter's Designing and Versioning HTTP REST APIs Video Course

Background

Recently, i went through excellent video series on Designing & Versioning HTTP_REST APIs presented by Jeffrey Richter. It is available here. In the past, i had read Jeff’s books on CLR and found his writing to be very clear and understandable. So is my experience with this Video Series. Below is summary of learnings from this Video Series. I do not claim that every aspect is covered here so please do check out the videos.

Tool to mass DM followers on Twitter in Go

Background

I recently came across bounty by Balaji Srinivasan to send Direct Message to all twitter followers. Currently, i do not intend to participate in bounty and this is mere exercise.

This is an attempt to write CLI tool in Golang in response to it.

For detailed requirements, refer here

Approach

In Brief,

  • CLI should,

    • accept arguments like Twitter API Key,Auth token, DM Message
    • Download all followers (with profile details)
    • Rank them by Criteria (e.g. Location)
    • Send each follower a DM with provided message (upto daily DM Limit)
    • be easy to use and maintain

  • Notes,