API stands for Application Programming Interface. A program's API defines the proper way for a developer to request services from that program.
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API demands & and not &
So I recently changed where my site is hosted, and my yp.com API requests are being thrown off, perhaps by a new version of PHP.
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Should a client pay to fix broken features because of changes in third party APIs? [closed]
Is it reasonable to ask a web development client to pay to fix features that are now broken because of third party APIs?
Examples:
We integrate a Twitter feed into a site's homepage, which works ...
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Google Maps iframe VS API (which is faster, if any)
Many sites embed Google maps at the bottom of the page as you may be aware, while I don't normally do it myself I've been tasked with the job. I've proceeded with the lazy route of embedding the ...
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flickr API - usage limit quota
Hi is there anyone who knows which is the Flickr API usage limit?
I have website and i would like users to attach photos to their posts via Flickr is it possible? Which are the limits?
On the ...
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Is Smush it a reliabe service? [closed]
Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline.
In their FAQ there is a question about ...
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Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled. So How to handle it?
I have a site which pulls photos from Instagram API. Recently I got a shocking message from Google that "Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled" for the "ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY" reason.
I believe ...
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creating unlimited sub domains programmatically through api
Note
Consider each subdomain as unique application instance
For information about application architecture visit
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Backend admin interface with multiple web services [closed]
What is the easiest way to receive data from different web services (Shopify, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, CRM applications, social media platforms, etc.) for an Internet retailer who wants to be ...
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SEO and APIs: Helping or hurting?
I have a couple Real Estate sites for some clients, and I was wondering about APIs and how that would affect SEO.
Particularly, I'm looking at using the Yelp API for nearby stuff, and possibly a ...
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SSL on site which asks API via HTTPS
For example I have a site site.com. It has its own http json api: api.site.com. API has authorisation and it runs under https.
Now, I need to make visualization of some functionality of json api - so ...
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How To Get Alexa Sites Linking Using PHP
I am planning to get the Alexa sites linking of a given website.
I am looking to do this in PHP. Please suggest me is Alexa providing any API. Is there any tool? Is it free? Is there any API that I ...
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Airline Ticketing [closed]
How does airline ticketing works. Is there any software which we can integrate in client's existing CMS website to allow visitors to book airplane tickets through there existing system.
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Weather Widget/API
I am developing a website and am looking for an easy piece of code that I can add to a webpage that will display the weather for today and also for the next 5 days for a given location (Wellington, ...
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Amazon Affiliate search using a movie title
I am currently working on a movie trailer site. I have over 300 movies and I do not want to add an amazon affiliate link to each one individually.
Does amazon offer any sort of api that will allow me ...
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When Will the Google Webmaster Tools API allow access to the Average Position in the Search Queries section of their tool? [closed]
I'm wondering if anyone has early access to the search queries / average position data via the Google Webmaster Tools API yet?
Do you know of any tools that have access to this part of the API? Does ...
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PHP W3 Validator API, Is this good? [closed]
I was trying to find a way to see if my site's code was valid or not but I continuously going over to W3 Validator so I decided to make an "API" however it really isn't!
I just wanted to know if ...
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How to integrate formstack, wordpress and authorize.net? [closed]
What are all the steps that involve in integrating formstack with Wordpress CMS?
What are all the steps involved in integrating formstack with authorize.net?
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historical weather data APIs
I am building a web application where I need to display whole year's month wise weather conditions. So that users get an idea of what the weather conditions are like and plan their trips accordingly.
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GAPI output doesn't match Google Analytics website
I have to get the main info about my Google Analytics Goals.
I'm using GAPI lib, with this code:
<?php
require_once 'conf.inc';
require_once 'gapi.class.php';
$ga = new ...
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When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? [closed]
When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active?
I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the
new version to come alive.
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Searching for an online shop accessible via API
I need an online shop with a custom interface (customizing items with Ajax, with a preview included). Writing it myself does not make too much sense (implementing all the payment options etc.), so I ...
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email server services for websites
I have a growing website and I don't want to deal with setting up a mail server to send emails through. Currently I am using Google Apps and sending emails via a Java program that I wrote. However, it ...
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Domain registration partnership + availability check
I would like to create a simple module for my website that prints keywords and tells the user if the keyword is available to register as domain. Is there any domain name registrar who gives any kind ...
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Automated outgoing money transfer for payouts?
At the end of a month I'll need to automatically transfer money from an account to a huge number of other accounts. This has to happen automatically through an API because the amounts for the ...
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$5 File Hosting with API [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
Could anyone suggest a reliable file hosting service for personal use with developer API that will not cost more than ...
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Is PhotoBucket a viable solution to host a website's photo galleries
I'm currently working with a lot of photographers and will probably be picking up development on a professional photography site soon.
With that in mind, and I can't stop thinking about a way I can ...
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GEO Tool - commercial use
what i want to do:
offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store.
only the specific client is able to ...
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Best ways to collect location-based user input
I'm working on a website where users will be able to register and provide information about their location. In order to prevent users from inputting incorrect data, we don't want users to provide ...
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Alternative to the deprecated Google Web Seach API
This question is slightly related to the question located here.
My current solution is using the deprecated Google Web Search API - but since it's deprecated, qeuries to the API is now limited. This ...
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Is there a free file hosting service with an exposed API for accessing content (or hotlinking for GETs)?
For a small business site we are looking at possibly free file hosting solutions such that a file can be uploaded by the user and our backend (Java) web service is able to update/modify the data at ...
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Can i use “Adsense search” in a facebook app?
I have a Facebook app and I would like to monetize it with Adsense search, which means that people could use a "Google Adsense search box" within Facebook page.
Is it allowed?
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Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?
I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a ...
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Sudden connection problems with Akismet
I've had the Akismet anti-spam plugin installed and working great on two of my non-commercial Wordpress blogs for the past couple of months. Both sites are using my same API key.
Today, on one blog ...
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utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range
I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually ...
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What is the best currency API out there? [closed]
I may be asking an odd question, but webmasters seem like a decent place to post this.
I'm in the search for an accurate, easy API (such as using JSON or XML) so I can use my web application.
I've ...
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PHP Library to accept logins from Facebook and Google?
I'm making a site and I want creating accounts / logging in to be very easy, so I want to support logins with Facebook Connect and Google Accounts. I know both offer APIs, but seems like a lot of ...
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What is the Google version of Yahoo's Data tables?
I find Yahoo! Data tables very useful. You can access them using YQL (Yahoo query language) to retrieve information such as stock markets, currency rates, etc. See ...
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Adding description for words on your website
I am creating a website with a lot of programming language, and words that are related to programming and application development.
Now I like the idea to have a tooltip on certain words, let's say a ...
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Dictionary API for a website?
I would like to have a dictionary for my website where the user can easily fill in a word or better yet right click a word and get the definition right there on the page or something along those ...
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Best way to implement user-powered data validation
I run a product recommendation engine and I'm hitting a few snags. I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on what I should do to minimize these issues.
Here's how the site works:
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Which domain registrar offers the most complete API? [closed]
I am looking for a domain registrar that offers an API that would allow changes like name servers to be made programmatically. GoDaddy do not seem to offer this, so I figured this might be a good ...
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In-browser painting app
I want to offer visitors of my site an in-browser drawing app.
Which apis help me doing that for free and easily without showing too much of it's origin like by using a link or a huge ad of the ...
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Recomendation for Webshop with API
I'm searching for a webshop. The problem with my search is, that the webshop-software of my choice needs to have a useabel API or some interface for external applications. E.g. i need to place orders ...
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What's the best way to implement texting into my webapp?
I'd like to allow users to text to a certian number in order to complete actions on their accounts. An example would be
update name with Captain
Basically what I'm asking is about is a service that ...
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Photo printing service API for my photo sharing website [closed]
I am triying to find a good photo printing service that will allow users of my photo sharing website to order print versions of the photos that they have uploaded to my site. I have looked at Snapfish ...
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Can anyone recommend a good SMS gateway for PHP? [closed]
I'm looking for an SMS gateway that has the following criteria:
Supports sending from short codes
Opt-in capabilities for end-user (will require user to opt in before sending message)
Has a clean ...
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Crossing Twitter follow info with members database
I have an email database with a couple of thousand members and a twitter account with a couple of thousand followers. Many of them are in both lists for sure.
For the purpose of segmenting the email ...
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SEO question, getting info about websites
I don't know much about SEO.
I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites
i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and ...
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Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api
I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way.
I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a ...
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Google Search API
Can someome tell me if there is an API to get search results form Google? I went through the Google Search APIs, but could not find anything that will let me get search results (the custom search api ...
