Get the latest tech news
All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs
’ve built a lot of unofficial software for my schools, Brown University and previously Macalester College. To name a few: an “everything app” called 75grand with dining hall menus, Moodle assignments, building hours, an event calendar, and more; two unfinished course catalogs; and a university shuttle tracker.
To name a few: an “everything app” called 75grand with dining hall menus, Moodle assignments, building hours, an event calendar, and more; two unfinished course catalogs; and a university shuttle tracker. With those results, I discovered that Brown’s researcher database is not only open source, but follows the common Rails pattern of returning JSON data for any page ending in.json, such as https://vivo.brown.edu/search.json?q=seth+rockman. Finally, while I hope these specific tips are useful, the most effective reverse-engineers are curious, deeply knowledgable about how web apps work, and follow their gut.
Or read this on Hacker News
