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Getting historical data from Twitter

Hi, goodday. For a research project I would like to get the last 3 months worth of Twitter messages. Technical challenges aside, is this possible? by using some sort of slow polling mechanism to keep the rate limiter at bay? The Twitter API states "Clients may request up to 3,200 statuses via the page and count parameters for timeline...

Search posts from a group of blogs

Hi all, I was wondering if there is a way for me to search contents from a selected number of blogs. For Example: Assume I have three blogs Blog1 (has 5 posts) Blog2 (has 6 posts) Blog3 (has 1 post) now I want to implement a search that would search within these 12 (5+6+1) posts. I think I need to use some kind of API for th...

Problem with FedEx Address validation web service

Hi, I'm trying to get started with Fedex'es Address validation service and I'm running into a road block with FedEx's own demo application. This is the code in there app: Sub Main() ''# Build a AddressValidationRequest object Dim request As AddressValidationRequest = New AddressValidationRequest() Console.WriteLine("--- S...

Facebook Connect Email Hashes

I have a users table on my website and I want to allow users to connect to facebook. I am having success with the pop-up login and them authorizing my website. However how do I disconnect them from facebook later if they choose to? If they've signed up for my website with a different email than facebook, I can't use unregisterUsers with ...

Detecting API changes/evolution

I want to measure API evolution for a given Java project, in particular new/renamed classes, new methods, newly deprecated methods, etc. Is there a tool that detect such changes? Back in 2007, a Google GSoc project was initiated, however, I cannot find the final work. ...

Anybody work with [World Lingo, Google Translate, BabelFish Translate]

Hi, any one here work with the these tools? [World Lingo, Google Translate, BabelFish Translate] Actually I need to translate entire website into different languages. I want an API. Is google , babelfist ro world lingo providing any api for that? If so can some one provide me the link Thank you Nagu ...

Public API with Private Elements in Python

I'm working on a web mapping service and would like to provide my users with a Python API that they can use to create custom plugins. These plugins would be running on my server so I'm trying to lock down Python as much as possible. To ensure that users can't access files they are not supposed to, I'm planning on running the plugins ins...

Is there a Google Voice API?

Is there an API (officially or unofficially) for Google Voice? I would like to have an API to work with voicemails, send/receive SMS messages, initiate calls, etc. What is the Android client using? Something internal? Has anyone documented it? ...

Which (popular) websites support mashable APIs?

Which popular websites out there support an HTTP based API? I am looking for content of general public interest (hence, Amazon's RESTful API wouldn't qualify, for example). Some sites which I am aware of: Twitter Netflix Upcoming Google eBay Please note that Although not a direct programming question, it will help programmers fin...

Which Twitter API Library for Ruby do you recommend?

What is the best Twitter API Library for Ruby? I want to do simple things like: search for specifics keywords for a date range start following people tweet messages How can I do these things with the library you recommend? ...

YouTube Data API limits?

Is there a limit to the number of requests I can make with the API? I see there are limits to uploading and the total number of videos (2000) you can have, but is there a limit to requests I can make to, for example, the search query methods? http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Searching_for_videos ...

Using Orkut opensocial API from windows application C# Winforms

Hi, I am working on a windows application where i want to display orkut user profile details like name, profile pic, albums. Is there some way can I can access user profile data on my windows form using C#. -- Thanks Manoj ...

YouTube API videoEntry count comments

I am trying to get the comment count for a video entry but this is giving me a count of 1 when there are no comments. Any ideas? <?php $commentFeed = $yt->getVideoCommentFeed($videoID); if ( count($commentFeed) > 0 ) { foreach ($commentFeed as $commentEntry) { // print commentEntry } }...

Flash security error - Twitter API

Hey folks, I'm trying to hit the Twitter API in my Flash application. It works in the local Flash IDE, but doesn't work when I upload it to my server. I'm getting this error: Error #2044: Unhandled securityError:. text=Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http//alpha.{oursite}.com/flash/twitterticker.swf cannot load data from htt...

Using C++ API in C#

I would like to use an API that is written in c++. It involves including header files and libraries. How can I use this API in a C# application? ...

Does Google allow other people to use their "Did you mean" API?

I have been searching all over the Internet, but did not find that exact API. I'd like to use their Did You mean feature for my own website. ...

facebook application only accessible by my user account

Hi all, I am developing this small facebook iframe app. I am using .net's facebook developer toolkit. It works fine for me with my user account. Though when I tried testing it through a friend's account (several friends actually) the facebook API doesn't seem to get populated with any information. My application is still in development ...

Google Visualization Api + SQL

Hi, I'd like to create a GViz of some data in a MySql Database and I'm having problems. Here is the source so far: <?php $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql'); mysql_select_db($dbname); $int_y_pos = -1; $int_y_step_small = 1; $sql = "SELECT * from table')"; $sql = mysql_query($sql...

Asterisk Manager API - Extension -> ZAP Channel

Is there a way to retrieve the ZAP channel from an extension number through the Manager API? For example, this is what I see when I run "zap show channels": Chan Extension Context Language MOH Interpret ... 33 3594 from-zaptel en default ... But Manager API only returns the following (without ...

Under what circumstances is it reasonable to use a vendor-specific API?

I'm working with Websphere Portal and Oracle. On two occasions last week, I found that the most direct way to code a particular solution involved using API's provided by IBM and Oracle. However, I realize every line of code written using these vendor API's renders us a little bit more locked in to these systems (particularly the portal...