Is there an API for google that I can use in my Perl program so that it returns number of results found for a search term? Whenever a search is done on google, on the far right, it has a number of results it found and the time it took. I would just like to get this information. ...
Hi! I'm really tired of using the Google Web Toolkit for accessing Google Maps in Java using Netbeans... Does anybody know of a good alternative providing a simple(r) API? Any help would really be appreciated! ...
I have a bunch of office 2003 documents (.ppt, .doc, .xls) in a folder, and need to extract the "author" property from each file. What would be the best way to do this, is there some sort of (free) office-api I could use to read this information? I'm using .NET 2.0 ...
public string GetArtistThumbnail(string artistName) { var request = WebRequest.Create("http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=artist.getinfo&artist=" + artistName + "&api_key=" + APIKey) as HttpWebRequest; using (var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse) { var ds = new Da...
Is it possible to use Twitter's API to grab search results? For example, if I wanted my page to show all tweets (man I hate that term) with the word "cat" in it? Is it also possible to get just the matching results that were after a certain date? ...
I am trying to install the javax.comm api on a machine (I already installed on another machine and it is working fine) but when I run the sample "BlackBox" application I get a message that says "No serial ports found!". I have followed the instructions and put win32com.dll in the bin directory of the jdk, comm.jar in the lib directory o...
Hello, which is a good Java API for working with XML (both DOM and SAX approaches)? Is JAXP a good choice, or is it deprecated? And, what good tutorial on the suggested API do you know? Thanks. ...
W3's EXI (efficient XML interchange) is going to be standardized. It claims to be "the last binary standard". It is a standard to store XML data optimized for processing and storage, is bundled with XML schema (making the data strongly typed and strongly structured). Well, there are a lot of claimed advantages. I was impressed most by t...
I'm looking for a way to automate a transfer from one bank account to another, without the end user having to login to something like paypal or amazon payments to complete the process (by transferring their on-line balance to their bank account). I've looked around online a bit, and found some vendors that seem to be able to do that, but...
I have a task to validate addresses entered into a system I am currently creating. The system requires that address entered are validated against a valid data source. In the UK the dataset comes from the Royal Mail and is expensive to access. The data needed is post code info for the whold of europe to start with accessed by an API in...
I have a resource at a URL that both humans and machines should be able to read: http://example.com/foo-collection/foo001 What is the best way to distinguish between human browsers and machines, and return either HTML or a domain-specific XML response? (1) The Accept type field in the request? (2) An additional bit of URL? eg: http...
I am designing an API, and I'd like to ask a few questions about how best to secure access to the data. Suppose the API is allowing access to artists. Artists have albums, that have songs. The users of the API have access to a subset of all the artists. If a user calls the API asking for some artist, it is easy to check if the user is ...
I do most of my work with Microsoft technologies these days, so naturally I'm checking out what WCF has to offer. It seems very flexible and a great next step up from .Net remoting, but it seems very tied to SOAP messages and quite a bit clunky for a platform agnostic web service app. I'm not an expert on the technology, but I imagine ...
Does anyone know the database format for ACT. I am trying to write an exporter for ACT! I've looked for libraries and can't find any obvious ones that will help me interact with the CRM system. ...
I'm looking for a way to programatically generate a twitter feed for a .NET application. Any recommendations as to a good wrapper for the twitter api to ease the work? Boaz ...
What APIs/Libraries do you recommend for sending signed emails from Java code? What are the requirements on our company's SMTP-Server to make it transport these signed mails, if any? We already hava a PKI infrastructure running, so certificates are no issue here. ...
Hi there, So I have a .NET app which goes thru and generates a series of files, outputs them to a local directory and then determines if it needs to update an existing file or add a new file into a TFS (Team Foundation Server) project. I have a single workspace on my local machine and there are 10 different working folders that are oth...
I would like to know if there is a mail spam honeypot api arround allowing the users to fetch the actual emails content. ...
I have a Word 2007 document that I want to insert an exsiting Word document into - while preserving the header/footer, graphics, borders etc of both documents. I'm doing this using the Word API in C#. It sounds pretty simple, I mean surely you just use the "InsertFile" method... except that in Word 2007 the "insert file" functionality ...
Hi Has anyone had experience with the post code anywhere lookup API. The service appears to be a bargain - through experience - when something is too good to be true it often is. I have reservations about the countries that are being offered, there seem to be some missing. Has anyone had any good experiences with post code lookup A...