api

Is there a free Javascript push service with a high requests limit?

I'm currently using Pubnub, but i'll probably exceed the free quota. Is there any free js push service with a high quota? The app i'm developing is for a not-for-profit crowdbased service dedicated to monitor candidates' abuses in the brazilian political campaign this year. (Sorry if i'm not making any sense, i'm very sleepy and caffein...

Updating a DLL in the GAC

I have an API DLL that several third party applications reference. Some of these applications want things two ways in terms of updates. 1) I want the latest stuff 2) Don't update my direct binaries that often There has been the thought of moving the DLL into the GAC and writing another DLL that is simply the wrapper for the DLL in th...

Task/action based web API idea

Hi, lately one person in my company suggested a different approach to web API. Since we deal with a lot of transactional processes (product sales, devices provisioning, account reconfiguration, billing, ...), the idea was to switching from "one action per request", to "process per request". For example instead of sending: (trivial mockup...

Highrise API Example. help

I am trying to get the highrise api working with my project. total noob. I have an account, have my api key, added to my rails project like so in my controller. require 'highrise' Highrise::Base.site = 'http://MYACCOUNT.highrisehq.com' Highrise::Base.user = 'MYAPI KEY' @person = Highrise::Person.find(:all) in my view i can...

What do I need to implement Amazon Payments?

Specifically, I'm not sure if I'll need SSL or any other security measure on my website or if Amazon handles that with the API. My website has a simple login and a sidebar on the right side for subscription payment information. I plan on having a simple 3 forms input box to collect payments (very similar to media temple). Credit Car...

API help commission junction

Hello, Im new to the realm of API and I was wondering do I need to paste the code as is or would I need to add javascript and interface to it myself? Im working with commission juntion datafeeds and developer key to make a website that is similar to www.directtextbooks.com Below is the website link with the instructions that they prov...

What kind of abstraction layers are typical between clients and servers in a request/response pattern?

So I'm brainstorming some stuff with a coworker right now with regards to backend API we're in the process of concepting out. It's a pretty straightforward read API, where a client requests certain data from a server and a server replies with that data. We're just brainstorming ideas at the moment, and one "idea" that came up was a sort...

[facebook] how to use https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=

Hi i need to use https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query= to get user profile picture and other user information on PHP. i know that https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query= return some json or XML. but i don't know how to get json to use. thank you ...

Are there any good Wiimote APIs (C/C++) out there that include Wii Motion Plus?

Hello I was looking around on the internet and I was unable to find anything concrete. I would like to find a good Wiimote API (in C or C++) that also implements usage of the Wii Motion Plus accessory. If anyone knows of any good ones it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. ...

Integrating messenger to an existing website

For an existing website and the users in it,how to integrate a chat application like yahoo or gmail or any other with minimum code changes. ...

Symfony error handling for both website and REST API of website

I have a symfony project. There is a website and a rest API that projects all the actions that can be done on the website. I would like to manage the data handling (get, update, delete) for both website and API on the same code. I realized that I need to put all the code in the MODEL so that it will be accessible via the API module an...

Lotus Connection API issue

I am working on Lotus Connection. I wanted to fetch the values in AboutMe section and Background section of profiles using the Lotus Connections API. Is it possible to do so. I had gone through the wiki and other help , but could not find any solution Please help if any one got a solution ...

Using C/C++ DLL in Delphi 2010

Hi All, I want to use dll from ssdeep (http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/). The API is: int fuzzy_hash_buf(unsigned char *buf, uint32_t buf_len, char *result); then in Delphi, i write it like this: function fuzzy_hash_buf(buf : Pbyte; buf_len : Cardinal; result : PAnsiChar): integer; stdcall; external 'fuzzy.dll' name 'fuzzy_hash_buf'; ...

Wordpress Settings API

I'm using the Wordpress Settings API to create an options page for a plugin that handles images and links. I can register 3 add_settings_field calls and add 3 images and links to the site. Does anyone know of a way to dynamically let the user add a new field (add_settings_field) on the fly. For instance if it started with 1 field, but th...

Are there any websites providing free news, weather, photos APIs for using this data commercially

I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US an...

Music preview API?

Does anyone know of of a music API that let's you play maybe 30 second previews of songs? I know Amazon has a flash widget, but I was wondering if there are other options for integrating this into a music site. I know last.fm and musicbrainz have some awesome APIs, but none of them do music previews. ...

Implementing a public API in java. What framework?

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on implementing the public API of our web application. The application is written in Java. This is a financial application deployed on Tomcat. My users can manage their sales, customers, purchases, inventory, etc. It's a pretty huge application. The font-end is written in Java/GWT. The backend is writ...

Google checkout integration with .NET

Hi all, I'm trying to use server to server XML API for google checkout with c#.net 3.5. I'm getting the following error when I try and post my URL "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request." even though I'm sure I've followed their instructions to the letter. My code is below... help anyone? public void DoWebRequest...

First Data PHP API

How can I integrate first data pay method into my PHP script? Anyone can show API PHP example for first data? ...

Dump Sprite Track from Quicktime Movie (.mov)

Hallo, i wonder if it is possible to extract the content or certain information inside a sprite track of a Quicktime movie. The QTkit doesn't offer anything for this task and tools which were able to do this were outdated or not available anymore. In addition, these tools (e.g. atomic dumpster) are not opensource so i can't see how its ...