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Real-Time Software Development Resources, Tutorials & SDKs. PayPal APIs. eBay APIs. Developer Center. API Docs. The TED API provides an easy to use RESTful interface with lightweight JSON or XML formatted responses to TEDTalks library and its associated data. In order to obtain the data during the private beta period you must qualify for the API key through the TED API-50 open call. This documentation serves as a starting point for developers interested in participating in the contest to better understand different types of data set we are making available. General format TED API has one entry point: and a version number appended to the entry point. A resource is an entity that can be requested as a collection or one at a time. To access a resource as a collection: /v1/:resource. Example: /v1/talks.json or /v1/talks.xml To access resource as a single entity: /v1/:resource/:id.

Where :id = the id# of the record in question (this is usually obtained through calls to the collection). Example: /v1/talks/1.json Standard parameters Example API calls: Events. STEAMWORKS. FedEx APIs. UPS APIs. DHL APIs. FollowTheMoney APIs. Apiary — Home. NY Times API. NPR APIs. OpenSecrets APIs. Our APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) provide access via web programming to the data we display on OpenSecrets. You may use our APIs to display OpenSecrets data on your web pages or to create mashups using live up-to-date data. Who Can Use OpenSecrets' APIs? Access to OpenSecrets' public, RESTful API functionality is available to anyone who: registers, abides by our terms of use, and is accessing our data for non-commercial purposes. Commercial republishing of OpenSecrets' data generally involves a fee. Click here to inquire about commercial use of our APIs. Our API methods are "building blocks" designed for programmers to use in their applications and OpenSecrets' APIs are developed with programmers in mind.

Looking for something more basic? Getting Started with OpenSecrets APIs Check out our API Documentation to see what information is currently available. Factual APIs. Use the read call to query from tables using any combination of full-text, parametric, or geo (lat/lng) searches. Syntax Reads are always implemented as a HTTP GET requests. Names]&q=[search terms]&geo=[geo filter]&filters=[row filter]&offset=[offset]&limit=[limit]&include_count=[true/false]&sort=[column:asc/desc|blending JSON] To query for sets of data, specify any combination of full-text-search (q), geo, or row filters. Examples Find rows in the global places database in the United States: Get the row for Factual: Find rows in the restaurant database whose names begins with the letters star (case insensitive) and return both the data and a total count of the matched rows: Do a full-text search of the restaurant database for rows that match the word coffee and the phrase los angeles: Parameters Full-text search.

iCloud APIs. DropBox APIs. Read our docs Docs are organized by language, from .NET to Swift. Create your app Getting started is simple and quick from the App Console. Test your ideas It's easy to prototype and test examples with our API Explorer. Learn from our examples Photo Watch uses our Swift SDK to let users see their Dropbox photos on Apple Watch. Simple Blog Demo uses our .NET SDK to create a simple blogging platform for uploading and downloading files. Back up and Restore uses our Python SDK to back up user settings and then restore them to a specific point in time. Find out what's new What's new Jul 21, 2016Stack Overflow Documentation for Dropbox APIsWe’re excited to announce that we’ve been working with Stack Overflow on the launch of their new Stack Overflow Documentation. Jun 28, 2016API v1 is now deprecated As of today, Dropbox API v1 is deprecated.

Apr 11, 2016Announcing the v1 to v2 migration guideUPDATE JUNE 29, 2016 This post now has been updated to include new information about open issues. Box APIs. Programmable Web. Mashery Customers. Windows Live APIs. SharePoint 2013 using REST. Microsoft APIs. Web tools/APIs. Google APIs. Flickr APIs. How to connect Android with PHP, MySQL. Android Push Notifications using Google Cloud Messaging (GCM), PHP and MySQL. Instapaper APIs. Full Developer API The Instapaper API allows third-party applications to add URLs to Instapaper. If you only need to add URLs from your application to an Instapaper customer's account, consider using the Simple API. Use of the API constitutes agreement to the API Terms of Use. Please read it, really. It's short and contains important implementation rules.

If you find a bug, or a minor change in the API could make your life a lot easier, please send feedback. Overview This API has been designed for ease of implementation. OAuth Instapaper's API uses OAuth 1.0a implementation, which requires signatures on requests. xAuth is the only way to get an Instapaper access token. Other details: Only the HMAC-SHA1 signature method is supported.HTTPS is required on all endpoints. Get a token for your application To get an OAuth consumer token for your application, fill this out. All token requests are reviewed by a human before being activated. Output formats Example output: The qline format Account methods. Delicious API. Pinterest API. Pocket APIs. Evernote APIs. ShareThis APIs. CrunchBase APIs. Tumblr API. Welcome to the Tumblr API! There isn't anything we enjoy more than seeing talented designers and engineers using Tumblr to invent whole new forms of creative expression.

We've put a tremendous amount of care into making this API functional and flexible enough for any projects you throw at it. Join us in our discussion group to talk about how to use it, what could be better, and all the amazing things you're going to build with it. Follow our Developers Blog for important news and announcements. Please use the API responsibly, and send us your feedback. Enjoy! If you're looking for documentation for the old API, you can find it here. What You Need Get an OAuth key: register an application You'll need this to get your API key, even if you don't ever need to use a fully signed OAuth request.

For more details, see Authentication below. Console Check out or developer console to test calls, and see live examples of using our official clients: API Console Overview URI Structure Blog Hostname Example. Reddit API. WolframAlpha APIs. Fitbit APIs. SecondLife API. Amazon APIs. Wikimedia APIs. DBPedia API. The DBpedia data set can be accessed online via a SPARQL query endpoint and as Linked Data. 1. Querying DBpedia The DBpedia data set enables quite astonishing query answering possibilities against Wikipedia data. 1.1. Public SPARQL Endpoint There is a public SPARQL endpoint over the DBpedia data set at OpenLink Virtuoso as the back-end database engine. There is a list of all DBpedia data sets that are currently loaded into the SPARQL endpoint. You can ask queries against DBpedia using: the Leipzig query builder at the OpenLink Interactive SPARQL Query Builder (iSPARQL) at the SNORQL query explorer at (does not work with Internet Explorer); or any other SPARQL-aware client(s).

Fair Use Policy: Please read this post for information about restrictions on the public DBpedia endpoint. 1.2. There is a public Faceted Browser “search and find” user interface at 1.3. Here. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. WikiLocation APIs. How to call the API The API is REST-ful and operates over a standard HTTP GET protocol. The base URL is: The method is added onto the URL with additional parameters being provided via the querystring.

There are two optional parameters which are available on all methods. locale (optional) - you can use this parameter in order to search for articles from a different wikipedia.org locale. Note: It is highly recommended that you follow @WikiLocation on Twitter for updates on changes to the API, downtime notices, and new features. Available Methods articles Find nearby Wikipedia articles based on a specific latitude and longitude Parameters lat (required) - latitude in decimal degree format. lng (required) - longitude in decimal degree format. radius (optional) - the radius (in metres) to search within. Example Usage Request: Response: <?

Gowalla/[ID] (deprecated) exact (optional) - defaults to false. Yahoo APIs. Twitter APIs. Twillo APIs. Twitter Trend API. FaceBook APIs. LinkedIn APIs. HTML5 Home. Trello API. Eventbrite APIs. RTM API. Zoho API. BestBuy API. Edmunds APIs. Edmunds.com offers four distinct APIs: Vehicle API, Editorial API, Dealer API and Inventory API.

Although access to these APIs is free, their availability to developers varies based on the access tier to which the developer belongs. We currently offer three access tiers: PUBLIC: All registered developers using the Edmunds.com data and content according to our Terms of Service.PARTNERS: Developers working with Edmunds.com on strategic products and applications that include the Edmunds.com data and content. If you’d like to become an Edmunds API Partner, please email usEDMUNDS: Edmunds.com employees and contractors using the API to build out the Edmunds.com apps and websites. Regardless of access tiers, all developers using the Edmunds API need to read and agree to our Terms of Service. This overview covers the core concepts that you need to know before you could fully use the APIs to their potential. Data Hierarchy Exploring a new API could be daunting. URI Format URI Examples Rate Limit. Netflix APIs. TVDB API. General Information Any company or project must abide by the rules on our API registration form.

Please avoid making more API calls than are necessary to retrieve the information you need. Each series has a zipped XML file that contains all of the series and episode data for that series. If your program has the technical capability of handling these files, please make an attempt to use them since they'll be mirrored by more servers and will reduce bandwidth for both the server and clients. For XML data, additional fields may be added at any time. Your application should be programmed in such a way that it can ignore any fields it doesn't need.

Dynamic Interfaces This will be the locations of the PHP interfaces with parameter list and usage instructions. GetSeries GetSeriesByRemoteID GetEpisodeByAirDate GetRatingsForUser Updates (deprecated, use Below Method) User_PreferredLanguage User_Favorites User_Rating File Structure Example Usage Development Tasks Step 1: Get an API key a. B. A.

B. C. D. A. B. A. TMDB API. Rotten Tomatoes API.