1. Stripe (Best)
2. Twilio
3. Twitter (Does what it needs to do quickly)
4. Puppeteer (Amazing. Was super helpful.)
5. Google (mostly ok but could be better)
APIs I've hated working with:
1. Paypal (the worst - docs are horrible and UI is not consistent with most of the help material out there because it changes all the time. Have you tried their support? That's a beauty)
2. Facebook (same story but manageable compared to paypal)
If ever there was an example of a company with "first out of the gate" advantage leading to such a large head-start that theyy could afford to constantly give the middle finger to everyone, PayPal is it. I cannot wait for legit altternatives to catch up.
Stripe is doing pretty well, but unless they somehow tap into the casual online user they won't disrupt PayPal's stranglehold to any significant extent.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sessionbox-free-mu...
This actually explains a lot of other things. Like the DMV.
Mousing over the links there to see where they go, the first interesting-looking one was the supported/unsupported features list, over at https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=684. Ah, I see - a wall of text reminscent of "system requirements", except it's a list of things you don't get instead.
But then going up to https://ebaydts.com, I met with... a blank page. But it has a title, so something's blown up. I hit F12 half expecting to be met with some kind of implosion, and even then I was cynically amused: the page has `<body style="display:none;>`, with no closing quote, and while Chrome parses it properly the devtools don't, so the CSS editor leaks bits of HTML.
On the one hand my infosec-sense says there's probably some awesome stuff hiding in here... but on the other hand, between the 1000 feet of bureaucracy I'd have to all but drown to report _anything_ I found, and the tenterhooks I'd be on while poking around establishing there's anything there beyond plausible deniability... not worth it?
Definitely agree that the old SOAP API was/is horrific. But the XML is about as easy to work with as JSON/REST.
They have no incentive to improve their docs. They're Facebook, there's no competition at all.