Fifteen essential Web apis for personal web pages

by maker on 2007-10-24 18:58:23

Computer-based interaction of international messages has become a common feature of Web 2.0 sites like Digg, Facebook, and Dilicious, moving beyond mere web feeds.

The full name of API is application programming interface, that is, application programming interface. Programmers can write applications and widgets to interact with the server on the page. API provides Web-based data and function access interfaces. For example, using the GoogleMaps API, you can export data and map information from Google. Also, using apis doesn't require much professional programming anymore, just that many apis are accompanied by example demos to show users how to use them.

15. MediaWiki API

Wikipedia offers over 2 million resources, and the Mediawiki API allows access to much of that content. Sites based on the Mediawiki API include Wikitravel, Wiktionary, and WikiNews.

14, Upcoming

Upcoming API data is available from Yahoo's Web site upcoming.org. It is very useful in getting information about immediate events.

13. Audio Scrobbler API

Last FM uses the Audio Scrobbler API to get information about the music you listen to, as well as being a plugin for many "What to listen to now" apps.

12. Ebay API

Ebay's API is comprehensive and supports almost all major Web scripts, including flash and Ajax.

11. Facebook API

Facebook is a very famous and successful social networking site with many examples, application creation wizards, and libraries that users can use on their own. Since Facebook is entirely user-generated content, the Facebook API is a golden resource.

10. Feedburner API

Feedburner is an RSS feed creation tool. Its apis give developers a lot of interesting experiences, especially the Feedflare API,

It allows you to add new features to Feedburner feeds.

9. Google Search API

The Google Search API is an AJAX Search API that allows you to add Google Search to pages by using JavaScript

And Google provides a lot of example code.

8. Yahoo Search API

Even more popular than the Google Search API. You can create a simple spell checker or site search widget.

7. Windows Live API

There are numerous apis available for different Microsoft services.

6. Google Ajax Feed API

You can download a javascript-based Atom or RSS feed to easily aggregate your content, very quickly.

5. Digg API

Use the Digg API to access personal stories, comments, or public data.

4. Delicious API

The Delicious API isn't as complex or powerful as other apis, but it's simple, and you can see the results by entering a URL in your browser, adding bookmarks, renaming tags, and more.

3. Google Maps

There is no need to say more about this

2. Flickr API

The Flickr API provides two ways to access urls. You can: create new sets, edit comments, export data...

1. YouTube API

Simple operation, you can export YouTube video list, ranking, tags, url... 【 Na don't shout 】