Crawling news articles
Does anyone know if there are standards / api to crawl news articles from most of the biggest news sources. I'm using rss to index them but I would like to classify them with more data than just their titles. ...
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Using messengerApi in visual studio (c#) in any windows, compatibility issue.
I'm Trying to develop a project that interacts with Live Messenger (8.5, 9.0 and higher) I can't get it to work in windows XP, whenever i try to instantiate a MessengerClass (available in the messengerAPI) it gives me an exception, however, in windows vista, this error doesn't happen (same exact code, tested in more than one XP and more ...
TPM/TSS Linux API alternatives
I would like to find (mature) API alternatives to use TPM (Trusted Platform Module) funcionality on Linux (and maybe other *nix). I'm interested in trusted encrypt/decrypt functions for authentication (probably integrating with Kerberos). I found jTSS (for Java) and TrouSerS, but I would like to know about other alternatives, if any. "G...
Retrieve all Master Pages for a SharePoint Site?
Hi, How can I determine programmatically what master pages (custom and OOTB) that are available for to use for a web site in SharePoint? Thanks, MagicAndi ...
Obtaining a proc pointer to a Carbon API at runtime
I have a Mac application that I must build against the Mac OS 10.4 SDK for various reasons beyond my control. Given that my application's minimum OS version will be 10.5. (I know, I know... but I can't give any more details than the above to justify why this is the case.) Within the Mac OS 10.5 SDK is an API, FSMatchAliasBulk, for which...
Do Kronos time/attendance clocks have an accessible API?
I'd like to extract a few pieces of system information from a Kronos clock programatically. I can scrape the web-based interface but there's got to be a cleaner interface. Does anyone have experience querying a Kronos 4500 clock for status info? ...
Mailengine with .NET API
Hi, I am looking for a mailengine that supports Sending emails Catching bounced emails Support read confirmations Show reports of mailing statistics (how many received/bounced) Expose everything through an API that can be called using .Net Does anyone know of any? It doesn't have to be free (always nice though) but it can't be a ...
Does anybody know a CMS with API functionality?
Hi folks, I am looking for a CMS that offers an API for managing the several content elements or pages. The programming language(or other technical details) of the CMS doesn't matter - so don't hesitate give an answer:). Best regards ...
Linux API - EXT3 file information
Hi everyone. I wanna proramatically determine if a file has been modified since last time. I wonder if there is a flag or somthing like that on files under EXT3 filesystem. I'm writing a backup software. ...
how to create a round/circular button in win32 API using visual c++
I have a Window (win32 API) Application in visual c++. I am not using MFC. I have to create a round/circular button with bitmap image. My application have a skined view. Can any one help me out in achieving this task. Thanks in advance. ...
Google suggest API does not work with Chinese locale
Hi, everyone! I have a problem with Google suggest API when using Chinese locale. I am picking Chinese hieroglyphs at random and use the REST API to retrieve suggestions. Unfortunately, Google always return an empty list of suggestions (I am completely sure, that I convert my request in utf-8, and it is working fine with other languages...
How can I uniquely identify a desktop application making a request to my API?
I'm fleshing out an idea for a web service that will only allow requests from desktop applications (and desktop applications only) that have been registered with it. I can't really use a "secret key" for authentication because it would be really easy to discover and the applications that use the API would be deployed to many different ma...
how does one add a subscription to a folder on Google Reader procedurally (thru the API)?
I want to manage a Google Reader "folder" of feeds that I can add and subtract feeds to programatically. I presume that's possible but I can't seem to find any API documentation on that subject. Any advice? thx ...
How to Convert &&++%% in html page to normal string?
I working in MFC and get the following code in html : &&++%% actually it is &&++%% here is a table of specialcharacters, is there any API's to convert this special character string into normal ones? http://www.degraeve.com/reference/specialcharacters.php Writting such code myself seems not safe enough. I thinks ther...
Simple DNS Server API
Is there some API that I can use to build a simple DNS server, preferably in Java? All I want my DNS server to do is answer with the same IP address for any request. ...
GData Error: Intermittent "Invalid root element"
I'm sending GData queries to renders traffic charts for users of Instructables.com using the Java GData package. However, this exception is sometimes thrown: [Line 1, Column 0] Invalid root element, expected (namespace uri:local name) of (http://www.w3.org/2005 Atom:feed), found (:feed The only mention of this error I can find online ...
Getting information about a Facebook Page via API but without a session_key
I'm going to create a Facebook application which get informations (name and *page_url*) about Facebook page from his *page_id*. So i went to the Facebook Wiki and i found this API method which sounds good at first look : http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Pages.getInfo My only wish was that i wouldn't pass a session_key para...
How best to expose Rails methods via an API?
Let's say I have a model foo, and my model has a publish! method that changes a few properties on that model and potentially a few others too. Now, the Rails way suggests that I expose my model over rest and let the end user monkey with parameters. What should I do if I want to expose my publish! method instead to protect my model? Is...
Chilkat XML parser
Have anyone used the Chilkat XML parser library? Do you know if it is free or use and just have to pay for its support? Any experience using this API? Thanks! ...
UML Diagram to Model API
I need to create a diagram to document a RESTFul API that build, which UML diagram should I use? Thanks in advance, ...