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API stands for Application Programming Interface. A program's API defines the proper way for a developer to request services from that program.

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Can't access API that's on a local linux server externally

I've come here as a last resort, I have a Windows machine installed on it is Oracle VB with Debian 12 VM on it that I use to run an API on. When I try to access the API on the Linux server using 10.0....
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How does Google billing work when exceeding API loads?

I would like to have information about the Google API that we use to integrate Google Maps and Google reviews on our website pages. My question is: Google indicates that a billing will be done if we ...
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Does Facebook's Conversion API Gateway store user PII? How long?

If we implement Facebook's Conversion API Gateway through Amazon AWS, Does this implementation store user PII? Does it store it 180 days? Could anyone tell me more about the retention policy?
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How to store personal data on my website and prevent it from being publicly accessible? [closed]

My goal is pretty simple: I would like to store some personal data on a cloud server, and privately access it from client applications. As a front-end and mobile developer, I have all the needed ...
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How can I extract Cloudflares unique visitors through the GraphQL API?

What we’re trying to do is extract the ‘unique visitors’ from Cloudflare for a zone, which you can see through the UI in Cloudflare by clicking on the zone overview. We’re attempting to do this using ...
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What would be the proper rel value for an api endpoint?

I need to expose an API endpoint in the html documents, so I can later do client-side rest calls (for search and/or subsequent pagination). As the JS needs to stay agnostic of config files, I suppose ...
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What is an API key?

When we login to a service via a user account, we are normally required to provide an email and password (and on some occasions a username as well). But, when one website's API authenticates to ...
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Get the number of indexed URLs there are for a domain on Google via Google Sheets

I want pull the number of indexed results for a URL on Google into Google Sheets. Some methods that others in the SEO community have reported to not work are: IMPORTXML and the XPATH for the class ...
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How to authenticate to WIX-BLOG API?

So I need to get all my blog posts every 5 hours. This looks like a way to go: https://dev.wix.com/api/rest/wix-blog The only thing I don't get is how to authenticate to this API so I get MY OWN blog ...
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Read Price from Dex and show in the page [closed]

Is there a API or anyway how i can read the price for a crypto currencys from different Dex like uniswap? i want to show a list in my page with the price for a crypto currency, how much it cost there ...
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How can I add an image to a WhatsApp message created from a click on my website through the API?

I want to send an image, text with product URL to WhatsApp from my website when the user clicks on the WhatsApp icon. Currently I can send text with product URL but I don't know how to add a image ...
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Azure Console fails any command and shows code containing "Invalid value for encodingHint"

Any command I execute from the web-based portal.azure.com for my application service's console throws the following error: D:\home\site\wwwroot>dir function(e){if(void 0===e&&(e="...
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How can I link to a Google Map that shows directions from “My Location” to a Place ID? [closed]

This URL takes me to a place ID: https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Google&query_place_id=ChIJaXQRs6lZwokRY6EFpJnhNNE   This URL gives me directions from my current location to ...
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How are these URLs highlighting text?

I've noticed some web URLs link to a web page with highlighted text. This appears to be controlled by an escape sequence in the URL of the form #:~:text=StartText,EndText, where StartText indicates ...
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How to search and retain news data for the purpose of curation without any copyright issues

I am currently using The Bing News Search API with Rakuten RapidAPI in order to get news articles and curate them on my site. However, I just read the API's display requirements which has restrictions ...
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How can I access a particular ad copy by AdID for a single (my own) Google Ads account?

We are getting AdID from the incoming clicks using ValueTrack. Now, we're trying to get the COPY of the ad using this AdID. Do I need a full-blown Google Ads Manager Account and API to access a ...
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Which Google pricing is correct, from tha API usage or the maps platform?

I'm doing PHP cURL requests to: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/findplacefromtext/json?input={$address}&inputtype=textquery&fields=formatted_address,name,geometry/location&key=...
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Web technologies involved in streaming video on demand from rest api to single page app

I am planning on building a website for my Physics teacher where he can upload his lectures as videos that can be played by students on demand. The web app will have a client server architecture with ...
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Google Dynamic Search Ads (DSA) pull landing / exit page specific data from API

We build a tool which links onsite visitor data and google Ads data. For the non-DSA ads we get specific information which we can link to the unique visitor. FOr some reason google Ads seem to only ...
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How can I get audience performance report data via the Google Adwords API?

I can get Keywords Performance Report, Campaign Performance Report and so on. E.g. The xml data of Keywords Performance Report: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?> <...
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Using Post method in Faceook Graph API

When I use graph API to post on a Facebook page it's not working, it responds with an ID and URL but instead it should be responding with a post id. When I open the URL it gives this error: { "...
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ga events api - Which guidelines should I follow

this description https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gtagjs/events gtag('event', <action>, { 'event_category': <category>, 'event_label': <label>, '...
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Will Google cloud charge me for their text-to-speech API if I stay below the 1 million character per month threshold?

I registered google cloud account and want to use Text-To-Speech API on my own server with github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-php library. On API page in block "Pricing" written that using less than ...
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Is YouTube video fetching by API (WordPress plugin) indexed by Google?

I have a WordPress website. I displayed all videos thumbnail (25 videos) from a YouTube channel by `API (WP plugin). The video is in a popup and start playing when I click on this thumbnail. That ...
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Is there any api to convert city names into longitude and latitude [closed]

I have city names in my database and I'd like to get those city longitude / latitude in order to pin them in google map, my question is: Is there any website/package that provides such service to ...
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Uploading offline conversion data to AdWords via API is successful but not appearing in the stats

I've been trying to upload offline conversions from clicks for quite a while now. First I tried manual uploads from a CSV. I made sure that the click associated with the gclid was at least a day apart ...
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Are Google API Key Application Restrictions Secure?

I believe an IP address or HTTP referrer can be spoofed, so can I trust that IP address or HTTP referrer application restrictions (configured via the Google API console) will prevent unauthorised ...
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Can I fetch the code for DFP ad slots for all my clients through an API?

Is there a way I can retrieve over API all the codes I get from my clients through txt files? Now I get a bunch of files like this: googletag.defineSlot('*', ][320,60],[320,100],[612,90]], 'div-gpt-...
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Google Bot Crawls using expired cookies and fails to get response

We are using a cookie on our website which is to fetch some information through an API. The cookie becomes invalid after a very small duration. Google Bot uses the same cookie again and again to ...
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Allow our own systems to use an API and restrict it from the general internet without using authentication

I have an Apache server which is reverse proxy'd to some Java container. In Java container there is an API that we don't want internet to see but expect our own systems to use it without any ...
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Error "Field name is required" - Google Analytics API

I'm trying to make API calls to the Google Analytics API v3. Simple read-only calls work just fine, but when trying to update data views (or any update method) I always end up with the following ...
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Correct HTML when translate website via Google Translate API? [closed]

When translating a URL (such as https://www.straatmakershop.nl/) via the free Google Translate tool (https://translate.google.com/) this often results in 'broken' pages. It seems Google is trying to '...
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How will using the Wordpress API affect SEO ranking for company blog?

We are currently discussing various options for implementing a blog engine or Content Managing System. We have a Ruby on Rails application, which gives us the option of using an existing gem, creating ...
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Get cookies from a third-party site by sending login information using JavaScript

I have a website (ASP.NET) which also provides an API. But to access it, it requires login. I want to connect to this site with javascript, 'send' the user credentials to it and receive the cookies (...
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Will using REST API from my site hosted on wordpress.com result in duplicate content?

I have a blog on wordpress.com to store content. I want to access that content using the REST API for a non-wordpress website. My question is, will this result in duplicate content (on wordpress.com ...
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How to make my website SEO friendly while using Restful API? [closed]

I'm using lumen on the backend and simple JQuery on the front end. Soon I'll be shifting towards the angular front end. But one thing that has been the cause of my tension is how should I make my ...
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How to prevent Googlebot from doing API requests?

I have a currency converter site around 32k pages. Every pair for each page. And every page has 2 API requests. I started to see huge number of API requests. From users I have only few page views ...
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Google Webmaster query api returning 403 error

We are using php library to fetch webmaster query API data and getting 403 permission denied error while able to fetch the same data using webmaster analytics tool. The following are the things which ...
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Extracting from JSON REST API

I would like to know how to extract particular field of data from the REST API. I would like to get the "bits-per-second-tx" data, only and I have tried http://localhost/net/json?field=bits-per-...
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Why clients might send unsanctioned requests (i.e. where did this POST come from?)

I've been building web apps for awhile, and while I'm quite aware that this is the Internet and your server has to be ready for anything, by and large humans using browsers make the HTTP requests you ...
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Angular2 on Heroku ask for ssl while using symfony2 api

I launched a nodejs app on Heroku which is basically the front of a website in angular2. The app should receive the database information from an api powered by symfony3 hosted on OVH. It seems that ...
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Track keywords and rankings using the Google Custom Seach API

Is it possible to use Google Custom Seach API to allow me to track keywords for our website as well as some of our clients? There are mixed views from what I can tell and read. I'm going to be ...
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MailChimp form with single opt-in (API)

How to easily make MailChimp API form without double opt-in? Using their API is hard for people with no coding skills and 3rd party tools like POWr or Privy don't have option to disable MailChimp ...
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How long do removed campaigns return in an api call?

I'm wondering how long campaigns that have been removed return in the CampainService.get() call? The documentation does not list anything that says they would stop showing after a certain period but I ...
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The Node Express server is returning "304 Not Modified" responses, but only after querying the database

I'm just diving into web developent, my current passion is Express (Node.js). I've noticed then i often recieve HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified either for static content and (!) for my json API requests (...
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Google "Define:" command API

I had a quick question about Google. Whenever you use the "define" command it gives you a definition of the word. For example, if I type define:living into Google, it will pull up a card-like result ...
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Site submitted via Google Search Console API but not found on Google Search Console UI

I submitted client site via Google Search Console API successfully, I have even received a successful verification through the API, but it never makes it to the Search Console UI. I waited 12 hours ...
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What’s the Difference Between a webhook and an API?

Programmers who make a request to an API will then receive a response. For example, using Web API to send an email, you’d pass the email contents with the request. If all goes well, you will receive a ...
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Re-submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster tools via command line? [closed]

I'm on Windows 8.1, trying to resubmit an existing sitemap to Google Webmaster tools via the commandline. I've read the documentation here but I can't get it to work. I've followed the instructions ...
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Which API key do I need to implement Google Maps/Street View?

First time implementing Google Maps/Street View, side-by-side into a webpage. Which API Key do I need please? Source Link: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/...
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