web-api

Some good example of RESTful web api?

Can you suggest some good example of some real-world and really well-done REST web api? ...

Best Engineered REST APIs?

Dear lazyweb, In your opinion what are examples of good REST API implementation when evaluated based on consistency with the REST philosophy compliance with web standards just plain good software engineering In a previous question, some names were thrown about, namely Amazon S3 & flickr. ...

Is being RESTful that important?

I'm working on a web based application which uses a JSON over HTTP based API to communicate between the server and the client. The goal being that multiple clients can be developed with different goals (online web client, offline desktop client, or third party created) using the same online data to be shared through this web service. Ri...

Most RESTful Authentication Approach - Who is using it?

Duplicate: this must be a duplicate of one of the questions that come up in the following search: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/rest+authentication. Please close it as a duplicate if you agree, and add any answers to one of the other questions. What is the most RESTful form of authentication? What websites use it? (so I ca...

Google Alerts web API for Python?

Google web APIs have a Python library. Google Alerts has an email and an RSS feed. Does anyone know of an automated way to add Google Alerts through a web API in Python? That is, without clicking. Note: the related question doesn't answer the web API question. ...

does anyone know ebay getDeals() api call

Hi all, I'm about to start developing a small ebay based application. I saw the following function in the ebay API documenation getDeals (here https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/api.html), though when I click on it, it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have any kind of experience with the Ebay API, is it reliable? From m...

ISBN -> bookdata Lookup to fill in a database

Ok, I wanting to database a small library. I've only had limited experience with databases, and none with querying from a webserver. I'm going to want to retrieve information like title, Publisher, maybe author, description the simplest way I can think of dooing this is looking them up via the ISBN. I've come across isbndb.com before,...

Know of reliable LRC files sources?

Hello everyone! I'm looking into developing (yet another) song tagging app, which would need to batch-download lrc files (lyrics files). Yet I can't seem to find a website with synced lyrics featuring a web API (lrcdb is down) Know of any? Thanks! ...

What's the simplest way to do authentication with a web API?

I've got a web API that provides data to users without authentication (the website lets users post data, after they've logged in using traditional cookies & sessions). Someone wants to develop an iPhone app that adds things to my database, so I want a user to authenticate on the iPhone, and then the api will allow posting. So, what shou...

How to mock web api in unit test

Hi, guys! Now my team working on a client application(c#), and I need to call some web apis that returns xml messages. I want to test the methods that calling these web apis, I know I should use mock objects in unit test. But I can't know how to use it correctly, because this is my first time to introduce unit test to my project. Can som...

What data/functionality would you want to have available through a web API that isn't available today?

Have you ever looked for a web API for certain data or functionality, only to find that there isn't an API available to meet your needs, or that the APIs that are available are inadequate for some reason? I am really interested in collecting such experiences. Please note that I am not asking about specific sites / web apps (so, for exam...

How to HTTP GET while sending vars and retrieve XML output using PHP

I'm trying to use this API: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/api.html Documentation: www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/requirements.pdf Here is the location calls are to be sent, which also includes sample code snippets: http://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/CPSCUpcWS/CPSCUpcSvc.asmx The getRecallByWord function should return XML data. Here's a preformed ...