olgamaunsell / week_12_weekend_hw_countries_languages

Web app which displays a word cloud of most spoken languages worldwide with additional dropdown language list to see which countries speak that language with additional country information displayed

Weekend homework.

Key learning to practise and/or revise:

• Manipulating the DOM - selecting/creating/appending elements
• Using event listeners to make our apps interactive
• Making an HTTP request to retrieve some data and then using it

Task:

Practise what we've done this week using JavaScript in the browser:

• Fetch information from an API.
• Display/Analyse the information in the browser using DOM manipulation/Charts/Maps/Canvas etc. Be creative!

GitHub user toddmotto maintains a HUGE list of links to open APIs on many subjects. We strongly recommend that you avoid APIs which require OAuth authentication. APIs which are listed as requiring an apiKey require a little bit of extra work, but this should be documented by the API itself.

In particular we recommend:

• REST countries: https://restcountries.eu/
• Football Data: http://api.football-data.org/index - Make sure you sign up for a Free API key to use in your requests otherwise you may get CORS errors in Chrome.
• OMDB - Film info: http://www.omdbapi.com/ - no key needed.
• News API: https://newsapi.org/ - News stories from several different sources
• Giphy API: https://github.com/Giphy/GiphyAPI - fun gifs! Free key provided.
• Open Weather Map: http://openweathermap.org/api - Free API key on sign up.
• Harry Potter: http://hp-api.herokuapp.com/
• MusixMatch: https://developer.musixmatch.com/ - get info on music charts, artists and their music, lyrics. Free API key when you sign up.