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An application programming interface (API) is the specification for which software is meant to be used by other software.

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Architecture for various api parsing and managing it in one app [on hold]

Updated after some comments - I am fetching data from multiple sports api from different sources, and data is in different format given various sources and different sport. I want to know if I can ...
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Is there an online permission (eg: RBAC) APIs service? [closed]

Is there an online permission (eg: RBAC) APIs service I can apply in my app to implement user permission control jobs? Thanks in advance.
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Returning view code in an API response

I have an API that returns a JSON formatted array of users within a given pair of lat/ long bounds. I'm using this data to plot a number of markers on a map, based on the location of each user. I ...
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API design: concrete vs. abstract approach - best practices?

When discussing APIs between systems (on the business level) there are often two different point of views in our team: some people prefer a more - lets say - generic abstract approach, other a ...
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Facebook API integration in java to fetch the comments about products [closed]

i want to fetch N number of users wall post or comments about a product from facebook using facebook graph API. do i need to have authorization to do that ? if i want then how can i do it? i want to ...
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When using your own API (Dog Fooding). How do you avoid giving away the secret key?

I read this article on soundcloud's api: http://backstage.soundcloud.com/2011/08/soundcloud-mobile-proxies/ It talks about consuming your own API. What I don't understand is how they avoid giving ...
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calling C dll file from VB6 for reading data via RFID head [migrated]

i'm an electrical engineering student. Unfortunately I have a programming problem. in my project, I have to make the decoding of palettes, that contain chips (chips have a memory of 129 characters), ...
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Is it safe to transmit access tokens via HTTP headers?

It's the first RESTful web service and I am concerned about security issues. Is it safe to transmit my access token via HTTP headers? For example: POST /v1/i/resource HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: ...
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Is it legal to imitate how an API looks? [closed]

I want to make an open-source graph thing which looks and behaves very similarly to Google Visualization API, but it would be based on Flot. Is this legal, or must I not imitate Google Visualization ...
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What is the appropriate approach to study an api when it is not well documented and there are no good tutorials around?

I am a student and I like to develop applications at my own level. While building an application I am the only one in my team. After analyzing the application I choose a library/api to use for the ...
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Is there an API I can use to get access to map data? [closed]

A customer would like me to build them an intranet web site with mapping information. For example, maps such as the ones on Google Maps. I looked at the Google Maps API, but their "free use" license ...
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Modelling REST endpoints with data that not all users have access to

I am trying to figure out the best way around a small problem i have with a design for a Hypermedia API i am currently building. I have a notion of a site, very simple doesn't have much going on and ...
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Is it better to have one method that takes a bool as a parameter or two methods with different names? [duplicate]

I'm writing a factory class for a Selenium Web Driver and I came across a choice that I couldn't figure out which is cleaner. Having two methods with the same parameter. GetWebDriver(string browser) ...
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What can REST API do that a API using HTTP URL query strings cannot do?

I'm learning about REST and had the chance to build a basic REST API. After doing so, most of the material I read was internalized and I now have a better understanding of it. However, I do not ...
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Strategy for keeping secret info such as API keys out of source control?

I'm working on a website that will allow users to log in using OAuth credentials from the likes of Twitter, Google, etc. To do this, I have to register with these various providers and get a ...

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