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caffeinewriter on June 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Version an API

I was just thinking about this. Instead of versioning with an `Accept` header, or with a URL version, why not version off of an upgradable API key?

TimWolla on June 8, 2017 [–]

Facebook does this partly: Each “Application” has an associated API version which is the earliest API version that can be accessed (and IIRC the one used implicitly when no version is given inside the route).

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