Chapter 5. Interacting With Web Services
In this book so far, we have seen how to monitor and control our ESP8266 Wi-Fi module from anywhere in the world. However, that's only a small part of what we can do within the Internet of Things framework.
What we will do in this chapter is use the ESP8266 to interact with existing web services, and therefore make the physical world interact with those services via the ESP8266. As examples, we'll connect the chip to the Yahoo Weather service, and then to Twitter and Facebook. Let's start!