Speed Up API Integration with GitHub Copilot

Usage: Connecting your application to an API often means jumping between docs, writing boilerplate, and testing requests until they work. With GitHub Copilot, you can skip a lot of the overhead and focus on the part that matters — making your app actually do something useful.

ProTip: Pair Copilot’s suggestions with your own knowledge of the API docs. You’ll catch edge cases while Copilot speeds through the setup.

Try This Approach

Instead of manually setting up every call, you can prompt Copilot like this:

Write a function in JavaScript that calls the OpenWeatherMap API,
fetches the current temperature for a given city,
and returns it in Celsius.

Copilot will generate the fetch logic, handle query parameters, and return structured results. From there, you can refine the code with follow-up prompts:

• “Add error handling if the city is not found.”

• “Update the function to use async/await instead of promises.”

• “Return the response as a formatted string, not just JSON.”

Quick Takeaway

By iterating this way, you get working API code much faster while still keeping full control over the details.