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Apigee API Console for SoundCloud

Today Apigee released SoundCloud support for their web-based API Console. It is like curl, but in the browser. This is how Apigee describe the console:

The API console lets developers easily learn, explore, debug and code against APIs, allowing them to authenticate, view request/response pairs, drill into errors and share what they are seeing with others.

We are sure, that developers are going to love this console. It makes it easier to get started for beginners, but will also help API-savvy developers to better understand the possibilities of the SoundCloud API. The resources are nicely lined-up on the side and invite playing around. Furthermore it is super easy to do authenticated requests using oAuth.

We also hope that the Apigee console is going to be used in conversations on our mailing list a lot. When talking about certain requests there, we mostly send around curl requests and their responses. This is error prone and not elegant. The Apigee Console will improve this situation. Developers can now share links to the recorded queries, which always hold all necessary information.

So please, try out the Console and tell us what you think in the comments, on the mailing list or on Twitter.

Oh, and you can also see the Console in action in this nice video, made by Apigee:

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