As some of you know, Stackoverflow now has an API, which now makes these types of questions valid programming questions. My question: I'm trying to write a small script to connect to the SO API to get a list of all questions under a subject (such as oauth, python, twitter-api and so on). Can someone advise how to do this? I have no e...
Over time your web service might changes, what do you do and how do manage change? (Different versions; add more features, modify or even remove features etc) ...
Hi everybody, Amazon has announced to drop ListLookup & ListSearch operations support from the API completely from Oct 15. Does anybody know whether there is a replacement operation to be used? Or some other way to retrieve a list I could not find anything like it in the documentation. I need to import a user's wishlist through the AP...
I run an OData API. To control usage, an apikey affixed as an url parameter is required (I use a variation of this answer). I'd love for my users to be able to explore the data exposed by the API using LINQPad. Ufortunately, there's no way to tell LINQPad to stick the apikey parameter to the end of query urls. Are there any good suggest...
I'm trying to think of a way to open a website and part of its database to other third party websites, similar to how Twitter lets webapps connect to its database to retrieve data and possibly store data. My initial research led me to oAuth (or is it openID?). What I need to do is let the third party websites login to a user's accoun...
Hi, I am using PHP PEAR Amazon package to retrieve products from the API, I can search for Books and DVDS at the moment, but I need all the categories, the problem is I cant find all the categories like e.g. home & garden. I am using below code to pull out Books: $result = $amazon->ItemSearch('Books', $options); I have tried replacin...
Hey guys Just Randomly got this question in my head! Whats the difference between API , Framework and middleware? Essentially all of them provide abstract low level services to apps. In that case why is dot net called framework and windows API called well.. API? ...
Hi Everyone, Anyone know where sites like amazon and ebay get their product specifications from? Surely they don't all have a large database of specifications for every product. I could do with one for cameras that I can plug into my site. Thanks ...
I need to find the city and state from a zip code. Does anyone know a good plugin/API that I can use to do this? ...
how can we make our own site API. just like facebook provide API and we can connect to the facebook ...
Hi, I am looking for an EPS library in Java. Our application generate images in different format on the server and we plan to add EPS support. I'd like the EPS library to be able to superimpose 2 images; foreground and background. I did a quick search and the libraries I found do not seem ready for prime time. Any recommendations? Thank...
Does any major travel website have such an API, for example -- e.g., Expedia, Travelocity, Kayak, etc.? Presumably it would have to involve a secure connection, credit card information, etc. Honestly, I don't even know enough to know whether this is an absurd question. Just curious if anyone out there happens to know what the options ar...
We're developing a REST API to be consumed by a couple of mobile applications. It's important that we're able to trust the identities of these mobile applications. In our current design, each API call is authenticated with an "API Key" parameter and secured with HTTPS. My concern is that the API Key is embedded within each copy of the ...
I'm looking for a nice way to generate documentation for a REST API. It doesn't need to actually connect with the code or anything, but it'd be awesome to be able to write the documentation as text files, point the tool at it, and generate some docs from it. Anyone out there have any ideas? I know I'm being a bit vague, but, to be hone...
I am struggling trying to pick apart the OAuth Service Provider example which is included in DotNetOpenAuth. I searched SO and found a few similar/related posts, but nothing really useful. Is there any open-source project or really simple/primitive example of an ASP.NET MVC 2 OAuth Service Provider? All I want to use OAuth for is auth...
I know there isn't a free API out there and scraping isn't ideal nor legal (?), but what if I hired 3 people to put in movie showtimes every day directly from the paper or a Web site into my own database to display on my site... and maybe gave out an API, is that legal? Or is the actual data of movie showtimes protected? Is everybody ge...
Hi All, I want to marshal null objects as null in the JSON representation. But, right now, Am not seeing the element in the JSON if the object is null. Example: @XmlAccessType(FIELD) @XmlType(name="foo" propOrder={"foo"} class foo{ @XmlElement private Integer foo; private Integer another_foo; .. getter() setter() } In m...
Hi, I need to scrap the email and phone numbers of all the users who 'like' a facebook application. for example : http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/apps/application.php?id=2438981128 The above application contains over 1000 users who like the application. Is there a Facebook API to accomplish this ? Please help me on this. Thanks,...
when a compiler compile a high-level language into the target language that are executable , what form is the target language in ? Is it a lower-level language like machine code ? Or the compiler just translate it to the OS's functions from the OS's API and the OS do all the work under the hood? ...
there are methods in program language in c++ like cout<<"hello world" . when compiled does it invoke a system call to perform the actual work OR is it compiled directly into binary code and get executed by the kernal ? if it use the OS API , different platforms using different OS API, how can the language be the same? ...