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Lag before disconnect after connecting to web service

Hi, when connecting to a web service such as Amazon or Yahoo, I find there is a one or two second delay after the data has been sent and before the service disconnects. I used to program with Perl and solved this by using a regular expression to match the end of the data, then break out of the loop. For example: while ($line = <SOCKET>...

API used in http://picclick.com/

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! ...

Does moneybookers have a mass pay api like paypal?

Hello! I urgently need to know if moneybookers have mass pay api equivalent to PayPal. I know that moneybookers has send money api which sends money to a single user. And also moneybookers has masspay option available when u login to ur mb account and can send out 100 payments max at a time. I want to automate this mass payment using ...

Getting started with Firefox API

Hi all, I'm working on an university project where I need to write a program that can access Firefox internal data & events to create stats about user actions. What I would like to have access to is: have access to HTTP and HTML data be able to listen to HTTP + HTML + Client side scripting events I've already done a bit a research ...

where deos foursquare or gowalla, get thier location data from?

i know foursquare uses google maps api, but how do they retrieve all the business location from google maps, do they save every location on thier database or just access it when a user checks in? sorry if i have confused you, but im so curious!! :)) ...

Perceptive MailChimp API - Problem creating new campaign

Hi, I am using the PerceptiveMCAPI C# Wrapper for the MailChimp API to create a campaign but I'm receiving this error Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at CookComputing.XmlRpc.XmlRpcStruct.Add(Object key, Object value) at PerceptiveMCAPI.Methods.campaignCreate.FormatCampaignOptions(campaignCreateOptions options) ...

What is the proper term for an API designed around the dotted notation?

I plan to ask another question on Stackoverflow but want to use the correct term. In recent years many APIs have been designed to support the following usage where a common type is returned. var query= myList.Where(p=>p.X == "abc") .Where(p=>p.BirthDate.Year == 1999) .Where(p=>p.Y == 123 ) ...

iPhone ASIHTTP - Distinguishing between API calls?

I currently have a view controller that implements ASIHTTP for handling API calls. My view controller fires 2 separate calls. I need to be able to distinguish between the 2 calls in the -requestFinished(ASIHTTPRequest*)request method, so I can parse each one accordingly... Is there any of doing this? ...

Suggestions for API to list places / businesses around you using GPS

I'm looking for an API that would provide me a JSON list of businesses or places around me after I pass lat/long coordinates to it. Google Places API seems to fit the bill, but they're in a semi-open beta release right now. Does anyone know anything else that would fit the bill? ...

LinkedIn API for Company Directory

I'm trying to use the LinkedIn API to search for companies, not users. I specifically don't want users - only companies. I had a look at the LinkedIn API Documentation (RTFM and all that), but as far as I can tell it's not supported. There are 2 posts on the forum which pretty much says this outright - here and here I'm basically jus...

Get Owners Name on Windows Phone 7

I'm porting an iPhone game to Windows Phone 7, and I'm wondering how I would go about getting the phone's name? Like, on the iPhone it would be the name you had set it to in iTunes, and that's also readable in the API with (obj-c..) [[UIDevice currentDevice] name].. Anyone know the equivalent WP7 .NET methods/properties? I can't find ...

Java: library for simple source code re-creation / copying

I am looking for a library which would simplify the process of copying parts of the code from one project to another. Copying of certain parts of the code which belong to the same file is not required. I am aware that there exists some code generators which would enable me to build the generated code from scratch programatically, but I a...

problem in wikipedia api

I have problem In wikipedia api I use this php script <?php $xmlDoc = new DOMDocument(); $xmlDoc->load("http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;prop=revisions&amp;titles=New_York_Yankees&amp;rvprop=content&amp;format=xml"); print $xmlDoc->saveXML(); ?> & I have this result in browser .... why? Warning: DOMDocum...

How to list VSS snapshots through the API?

I am looking for a way to replicate what "vssadmin list shadows" does using a published API. There appears to be no relevant methods in IVssBackupComponents, and I am not sure where more to look. If anyone has any pointers or insights, I'd appreciate the help. ...

Building on top of Google Fusion Tables

How do you modify and build on top of Google Fusion Tables? I want customize the way that people can upload data, the way the data appears on the maps, and the results that search queries return. I know this question is general, but where should I start, and what should I look at first? (Don't tell me the fusion table documentation, beca...

A question on APIs

Recently I have learnt of the many benefits (including beautiful looking code) of OOP. So, now I am trying to write a small physics API for my personal use, perhaps to be put in a few little games. This is mainly because I like to practice coding, and I like my physics. But the thing is, many APIs have an interface like this (including...

Is there YouTube Live Broadcast via API Thing

I need to know about a feature of YouTube live broadcasting. I am even not familiar whether this feature is in YouTube or not. If it is then is there a API that allows to interface with that? ...

How can I show a Hit/Visits Counter on my page which uses Piwik for analytics

I want to show the Visits for the current day on a homepage. That page is tracked with Piwik. How to use the API with PHP to get the (unique) visits and hits for today so that I can show them somewhere on the page ...

Not able to post using Blogger API

When i post using Blogger API it does not respond with any error but it also does not post to the specific feed or blog. But it respond with http code '0'. Kindly help me debug the code. Following is my code: $authSubHeader = self::getAuthHeader("POST", $url, $token); $xml = "<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'&gt; ...

good practise: REST API as the interface between the interface layer and business layer?

I was thinking about the architecture of a web application that I am planning on building and I found myself thinking a lot about a core part of the application. Since I will want to create, for example, an android application to access it, I was already thinking about having an API. Given the fact that I will want to have an external A...