Application Programming Interface (API)
Companies that build Web sites and software often create APIs to give outside developers access to their systems or data. Web site APIs encourage the creation of new and often very useful applications. For example, a developer used the Google Maps API and data from Craigslist to combine apartment rental data with area maps to create HousingMaps.com.
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Open XML API for O'Reilly Metadata
In addition to Bookworm, O'Reilly Labs now includes an RDF-based API into all of O'Reilly's books: Most publishers are familiar with the ONIX standard for exchanging metadata about books among...New York Times Opens "Best Sellers API"
The New York Times on Tuesday opened up its "Best Sellers API," offering programmatic access to best-seller data (going back to 1930!) from the Times: The Times Best Sellers...APIs, New "Transactions" and the Google Book Search Registry
At PersonaNonData, Michael Cairns discusses the Google Book Search registry, and muses whether it might support certain types of transactions through an API: How the registry may be formed is...New York Times Movie Reviews Released as API
The New York Times has released an application programming interface (API) to its movie reviews, which is a rather significant feature. From the Times' Open blog: Finally -- and this...XML and APIs: Perfect Together
This week's formal announcement of the first three APIs for Google Book Search provides a frame for the "why" in StartWithXML: Why and How? Although Google has confirmed just a...CEOs Must Have API Literacy
With the release of the expanded Google Book Search application programming interface (API) presenting new opportunities and decisions for publishers, Adam Hodgin argues for API-literate CEOs: Why does it...Google Book Search Listings Now Embeddable
Titles from from Google's Book Search index can now be embedded in non-Google Web pages. From Inside Google Book Search: We're launching a set of free tools that allow retailers,...EPUB Creation Just Got Simpler
BookGlutton makes .epub files easier to create with a simple Web form that accepts an HTML file and returns an .epub file.Google Opens Book Search with API
Google Book Search images and results can now be embedded directly into external Web sites thanks to a new API.- Stay Connected
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