Toapi – Let any web site provide APIs
Now I don&#x27;t want to be a downer: but we collectively seem to have forgotten that HTML as a markup language with sufficient semantic elements, is a perfect API in itself. In fact, if we had stuck with XHTML I would&#x27;ve postulated that it would&#x27;ve been an even better API than JSON due to XPath, XQuery and XSLT.<p>&quot;HyperText is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. Potentially, HyperText provides a single user-interface to many large classes of stored information such as reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line systems help. We propose the implementation of a simple scheme to incorporate several different servers of machine-stored information already available at CERN, including an analysis of the requirements for information access needs by experiments… A program which provides access to the hypertext world we call a browser — T. Berners-Lee, R. Cailliau, 12 November 1990, CERN &quot;<p>Web apps are somewhat backwards in my opinion. We completely lost the  idea of a markup language and decided “wait, we need an API”. So we started using JSON instead of the actual document (HTML or XML) to represent the endpoints. And then we patted ourselves on the back claiming “accessibility&quot;.