Hello everyone, my friend pointed me to the http://picclick.com/ site yesterday, and i was curious if there's any public api the developer have used to get the results, i know google blocks your ip when it detects that you are sending automated requests. Thanks!
A:
Probably not, if your IP address is blocked when you send automated requests; what does a web API do, except send automated requests?
amphetamachine
2010-09-23 01:05:32
He meant that Google blocks your IP if you use automated screen-scraping, not if you use their API.
Hippo
2010-09-23 01:25:24
A:
PicClick uses the API provided by the sites themselves. For example, they claim that they are a certified eBay Compatible Application and Amazon Approved Associate, both of which indicate they are authorized users of the APIs provided by eBay and Amazon.
Here's eBay's public API: http://developer.ebay.com/products/overview/api-by-feature/
Google's public API can be found here: http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/multimedia.html
Hippo
2010-09-23 01:34:29