Category Archives: APIs
Reading: FB App Development with Graph API Cookbook
I just finished reading Facebook Application Development with Graph API Cookbook. It provides over 90 recipes to create web apps with the Facebook API. The variety of topics and the amount of practical code examples makes it a useful reference for the FB API developer.
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SELECT * FROM Internet: examples of YQL, a powerful API crawler
YQL (Yahoo! Query Language) is not new, however the concept of a Web Service that accesses Internet data with SQL-like commands, is really cool so should be mentioned on this blog!
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Facebook API: how to post TO a page and AS the page
Today I will show you how you can post to Facebook pages with the identity of those pages. One of my readers came up with this question and truth is it is useful if you have various pages to administer.
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Your own movie database in 5 minutes with IMDb API and Perl
In this post I will show you how you can easily import IMDb data for your movies and process the XML to get SQL for database import. From there you can start to build your movie site.
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How to create a customized Google+ Share button
A quick post about something I was looking for some time, a way to share links to Google+ from outside their service. There are two interesting options available now.
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Finally here: The google+ API
We had to wait a bit but the google+ API was officially launched yesterday. Only public data and posts can be accessed, but it is a start to get familiar with the API.
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My Reading List: load Google book preview in overlay
Google books API is cool, it gets you quite some info and it is easy to use. I used it in My Reading List ( you can read more here ) .
Google+ API still due? You can already do stuff …
After playing with some APIs, especially the Facebook one, I cannot wait till Google+ releases its API. However there are ways you can already import your profile and posts!
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Facebook API: post with Perl from CLI
In the last post I explained how to post to a FB wall (yours or a friend) via a simple FB App, and with the FB PHP SDK 3. In this post I like to show the same but from the Command Line (CLI) and with Perl.
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How to start building your own country/ travel API