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grasshopper
A WordPress.com REST API + D3.js example
This is a simple demo app that uses the WordPress.com REST API to graph a site's recent views using D3.js / C3.js.
See it in action here!
Authentication
The app uses implicit oAuth to retrieve a token via the oAuth flow without having to store a secret.
This token is returned in the URL when the oAuth flow redirects back to our app. Since we've requested scope for a single site, the Site ID is also returned as a URL parameter.
Loading Data
Using the d3.json() function, we can use the token to make an authenticated request to the /stats endpoint of the REST API.
The token is passed in an Authorization header:
.header( 'Authorization', 'BEARER ' + decodeURIComponent( token ) )
Graphing The Data
Once the API call returns, we simply pass the returned data to c3.generate() to plot it on a graph.
