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The Google Places API (Experimental) - Google Places API. Looking to use this service in a JavaScript application?

The Google Places API (Experimental) - Google Places API

Check out the Places Library of the Google Maps API v3. The Google Places API is a service that returns information about Places — defined within this API as establishments, geographic locations, or prominent points of interest — using HTTP requests. Place requests specify locations as latitude/longitude coordinates. The following Place requests are available: Place Searches return a list of Places based on a user's location or search string. Each of the services is accessed as an HTTP request, and returns either an JSON or XML response. Authentication The Google Places API uses an API key to identify your application. Visit the Google APIs Console at and log in with your Google account. Places API Enterprise Customers Some features of the Places API — such as review summaries, and certain request filters — requires additional licensing, available as part of a Places API enterprise license.

Usage Limits and Requirements. MapsGettingStarted - gwt-google-apis - Using Google Maps in a GWT project - The Official Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit. The Google Maps API provides a convenient JavaScript API which allows you to add mapping functionality to your application.

MapsGettingStarted - gwt-google-apis - Using Google Maps in a GWT project - The Official Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit

The Google Maps library for GWT allows you to access this JavaScript API from Java code compiled with the GWT compiler. At the present time, the gwt-maps API only supports Google Maps API version 2. This guide describes the basics of getting the Google Maps Library working in a GWT project. Getting Started with YouTube Java API. In this tutorial I am taking a look at Google’s YouTube API which allows you to empower your application with YouTube’s features.

Getting Started with YouTube Java API

YouTube is one of the “killer” Internet applications and its traffic comprises of a huge portion of the total internet traffic. Before we get started, make sure you have read the API Overview Guide. We will mainly deal with the Data API, which allows you to perform many of the operations available on the YouTube website (search for videos, retrieve standard feeds, see related content etc.).

The API is available in multiple programming languages and we will be using Java for this tutorial. Read the Java Developer’s Guide to get a first idea. Let’s prepare the development environment. Extract the zipped file, locate the folder “gdata\java\lib” and include the following JARs into your application’s classpath: data-client-1.0.jargdata-youtube-2.0.jargdata-core-1.0.jargdata-media-1.0.jar Next, we have to take care of the dependencies.

Enjoy! Related Articles : YouTube API v2.0 – Audience - YouTube. YouTube. YouTube API Blog. YouTube APIs Announcement Forum. Reference Guide: Data API Protocol - YouTube. YouTube Project Gallery - Google Code. API Overview. Secondaire. Facebook. 1.6.4-SNAPSHOT API. How to get number of video views with YouTube API.