I'm looking for a wiki like software where we can publish our public api documentation. I have found many people to use MediaWiki but this does not seem to be the most elegant way of doing it. I would love to have a place where we can easily define the APIs specs and have it in an easy to read format. I like how twitter did their api d...
How do I know when user starts moving, stops moving and moves a window belonging to another application or the Finder? I know about kAXWindowMovedNotification but it is not what I need because it only reports when mouse is stopped and additionally it notifies about any moves also these which have not been done by user. I cannot find any ...
The Stock Market world seems to almost be as fragmented as our nation's Real Estate Fiefdoms. At any rate, are there any providers of free data dumps, API's, or feeds related to stocks or commodities? Delay time isn't important. ...
Hello According to Facebook graph API we can request a user profile picture with this (example): https://graph.facebook.com/1489686594/picture We don't need any Token since it's a public information. But the real image URL of the previous link is: http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs356.snc4/41721_1489686594_527_q.jpg If ...
Hi folks, In a number of our web applications, we make calls to 3rd part API's like Twitter, etc. Nothing new there. What we would like to do is to grab some statistics about our website usage -> how many calls we are making every hour and day to our various free and paid 3rd party API's. I'm not sure how we can do this. Now, I've us...
I'm finding a lot of tutorials on how to implement APIs but how does one actually create one? For example, I want to query movie quotes from my DB and also insert new ones via an API. I know PHP and MySQL but what am I missing to make an API? I read about the REST method and it seems easy but I can't find a step-by-step guide. Can someo...
What can I make to allow people to display data from my own website's database on their website using a query? For example if I have a table named "movie_quotes" which is comprised of various movie quotes.. How can other people query them on their own sites by either genre or dates. For example they can modify the "category" parameter t...
I'm looking for an API that can be accessed via C# implementation where I can get access to free stock market historical information (index and individual companies). ...
Hello, I'm trying to issue a call through API so that I can delete user properties. When I go to ourwiki.com/@api/users/=john_smith%40ourwiki.com/properties it returns the XML which includes all of that users properties. I'm trying to store that XML in variable $xmlString then I should be able to loop through to get the properties and...
Hi All, I am about to prepare for the webapplication.I have no idea of how to go for it.Please provide me some outlines on how to develop the api for a web application.I am using WCF as my service for interaction with the web application.Also security is also a chief concern for it. Best Regards, Sagar. ...
Hello, I am creating an API with a bunch of public methods to be published on the web and I need to secure them. In this case it is not about encryption but authentication. The idea is that whoever is consuming the web services is a registered user on the DataBase so that we can keep outsiders out. I have being reading about API Keys b...
I'm inheriting a php project of a complete website. It's currently static; the owner just wants a blog on the front page to keep things fresh. Is there a mature PHP blog software out there that I can make a few calls to and have a blog up and running on their front page, without having to convert their entire existing site to a blog or C...
I'm trying to send cart information to Google Checkout using the XML API. My products are sold by tons and partial tons, so sometimes the quantity is 1.5, for example. It appears the API only accepts integers for quantities: http://code.google.com/apis/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_XML_API_Tag_Reference.html#tag_quantity Is there a...
I'm trying to use my Flickr account as a 'host' for an image gallery. I've tagged 251 photos with a common tag 'golftournament' and each one with the year and any players in the photo. So, for example, three random photos may have the following tags: golftournament dan steve 2005 (dan and steve in this photo from 2006) golftournament ...
Is there an API in PHP which allows the user to add records by just filling out an excel-like table instead of having to fill up a usual form-look page. After the user will fill in the fields, the record will auto save the record in the database. I want it to work just like ordinary form with post method in PHP. It will allow the user to...
I am looking for an api or service that will allow me to sell greeting cards on demand for a new service I'm building. I am assuming I can use CafePress (but their product are expensive). Are there any alternatives? ...
I am using Twitter API for retrieving user information for specific name searches. The method I am using is users/search. You can find details of this method here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users-search. Right now I am trying to use OAuth in my application as Twitter announced that they will no longer support...
Is there any service that provide a public API to perform mathematical calculations (such as linear algebra decompositions etc)? Thanks ...
How to start the facebook application development using the Java API? I am getting into authentication issues? I could not find any proper documentation for java. Everything seems to be out dated. ...
Hi! I'm implementing shipping into my application and I have problems with polish chars. On generated label they appear as '?'. Client is written in C# so all my strings are Unicode. Maybe you know in what encoding I should send data to get polish chars? I send: gęśla jaźń And on the .gif label there is: g??la ja?? It seems that U...