Whether you run a blog, a business website, or a personal portfolio, integrating a news widget ensures your visitors stay informed while spending more time exploring your content. This tutorial will guide you through building a custom news headlines widget using JavaScript. You’ll learn how to fetch breaking news from the ViewBits API, style the widget for seamless integration, and ensure it updates in real-time.
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Automate Your Discord Server in Windows using curl and PowerShell
Looking to fill your Discord server with random facts, jokes, quotes, and other content? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use Windows PowerShell and the command-line tool curl to retrieve data from the ViewBits API and send it to your Discord server using a webhook. With just a few lines of code, you can automate the process of sending data from the ViewBits API to your server, adding some fun and additional engagement to your community. Follow along with the step-by-step instructions below to get started. 1. Create Discord Webhook Create a webhook in your Discord server by
Automate Your Telegram Channel with Python and ViewBits
Are you a Telegram channel admin looking to entertain your users with random data like quotes, jokes, or useless facts? In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to build a Telegram bot that sends a random entry from our API to your Telegram channel after every 25 messages.
How to Build an API Powered Rock, Paper Scissors Game using HTML and JavaScript
In this tutorial we will be building a simple Rock, Paper, Scissors game using the ViewBits Randomizer API. You will learn the basics of how to make an API call using different variables and displaying the result using simple HTML and JavaScript.
Boost Your API Performance with Data Caching
In this code example, we will show how you can use some simple PHP scripts to cache API data to your local server. This can be useful to increase the speed of your app as you do not need to call the API each time your app needs to load the same data.
How to Create a ViewBits API Backend for Your Website
If your JavaScript code includes a sensitive API key (a kind of password that lets your code access an external service), that key is visible to anyone who checks the code using developer tools. This means someone could copy your API key and use it themselves, potentially costing you money, violating terms of use, or exposing your account to misuse.
Understanding CORS: Solutions and Workarounds for Developers
CORS is a browser mechanism that allows servers to specify which domains can access their resources via HTTP requests. This policy is in place to prevent malicious websites from making unauthorized requests to other servers on behalf of a user. By default, browsers block requests from origins (e.g., your app’s domain) that differ from the server’s origin unless the server explicitly allows it by sending an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header. Why does the API endpoint work in a browser but not my app? When you directly access the API endpoint via your browser, it’s a simple GET request made by the browser,
Getting Started with JSON: An Introduction for New Developers
Before you start working with an API call and using data from the ViewBits API, it is important that you first have a basic understanding of JSON and its concepts.