http://www.webapi.org Web API scripts, directory, samples and reviews. Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:18:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Fianally Digg launched their API : The Digg Application Programming Interface (API) has been created to let users and partners interact programmatically with Digg. The API returns Digg data in a form that can be easily integrated into an application or a web site. See the documentation at http://apidoc.digg.com/ ... http://www.webapi.org/2007/04/20/digg-api/ Google has just launched their AJAX Feed API: With the AJAX Feed API, you can download any public Atom or RSS feed using only JavaScript, so you can easily mash up feeds with your content and other APIs. It requires JavaScript knowledge to integrate with any website, but it's all ... http://www.webapi.org/2007/04/18/google-ajax-feed-api/ Google has just opened for all developers their AdSense API introduced last year: If you're a web developer or host, you may remember that we introduced you to the AdSense API last May. With the AdSense API, your users can create their own AdSense accounts on your site, and ... http://www.webapi.org/2007/03/30/google-adsense-api/ Via ZDnet Blogs: yourminis opens up the widget platform, releases API Tonight yourminis announced the availability of their API, giving developers a way to build widgets and upload them. In addition, the team released an analytics application that will help you track where your widget is going and ... http://www.webapi.org/2007/03/30/yourminis-opens-up-the-widget-platfor-releases-api/ Yahoo! announced today availability for its Mail Web Service APIs: With the Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs, you can build applications to perform tasks such as listing messages, displaying folders, and composing and sending messages. Here's an authentication example from their samples: <?php// test.php -- Test Yahoo! Browser-Based ... http://www.webapi.org/2007/03/28/yahoo-mail-web-service-apis/ I've just read an interesting post of Alex Boxworth called as mentioned: How To Provide A Web API. I totally agree with his view, just that I'd add: - Document your Web API completly, with examples. Different providers offers documentation in different forms, more or less complete. Web API consumers rnage from ... http://www.webapi.org/2006/08/24/how-to-provide-a-web-api/ I've just read about Blogger API updates you might be interested. Seems that they updated documentation and code samples, but also integration with other Google products, especially Calendar. Good to know. http://www.webapi.org/2006/08/17/blogger-api-updated/ Popular (mostly among teenagers) social networking site Facebook.com has launched their web API. After you register your API key you have access to a few methods like friends.get, photos.getAlbums or users.getInfo. Basically, you have access to your friends, photos, messages or events. They have a limit of 100,000 requests in 24 ... http://www.webapi.org/2006/08/15/facebook-web-api/ As you already read in the news Google launched a few days ago Google Checkout, its online payment service. Dubbed 'GBuy' may be an alternative to EBay's PayPal (already eBay restricted Google Checkout as payment method on its auction site). One big minus is that is available only for US ... http://www.webapi.org/2006/07/07/google-checkout-api/ Google added a very useful functionality to their maps: geocoding Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like "1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA") into geographic coodinates (like latitude 37.423021 and longitude -122.083739), which you can use to place markers or position the map based on street addresses in your database ... http://www.webapi.org/2006/06/23/google-map-geocoding/