ballerinax/Apache Ballerina library

Overview

Ballerina connector for Giphy is connecting the Giphy API via Ballerina language easily. It provides functions to get GIFs and stickers.

This module supports Giphy API version 1.

Prerequisites

Before using this connector in your Ballerina application, complete the following:

• Create Giphy account
• Obtain tokens - Follow this link

Quickstart

To use the Giphy connector in your Ballerina application, update the .bal file as follows:

Step 1: Import Giphy module

First, import the ballerinax/giphy module into the Ballerina project.

import ballerinax/giphy;

Step 2: Initialize Giphy client

You can now make the connection configuration using the Giphy API keys config.

giphy:ApiKeysConfig configuration = <API_KEY_PAIR>

giphy:Client giphyClient = check new (configuration);

Step 3: Create get a random GIF operation

Following is code demonstrates how to get a random GIF using ballerinax/giphy connector.

public function main() returns error? {
    giphy:Response entity = check giphyClient->randomGif();
}