Let's also say that you did an initial search and found no immediately usable solutions. It would take hours of sifting through garbage to fish something workin

Let's also say that you did an initial search and found no immediately usable solutions. It would take hours of sifting through garbage to fish something working out of the Internet. You know the API is popular and you know for sure that someone already did exactly what you want to do. These premises are unlikely to be simultaneously true. If the API is popular, your question has probably been asked and answered many times. If you really are doing something unusual, you should at least be able to find a reference to something similar, and when you ask your question you can point to it and explain what you need to do differently.