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 anyone recommend a good SMS gateway for PHP?
I'm looking for an SMS gateway that has the following criteria:
Supports sending from short codes
Opt-in capabilities for end-user (will require user to opt in before sending message)
Has a clean ...
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Which domain registrar offers the most complete API? [closed]
I am looking for a domain registrar that offers an API that would allow changes like name servers to be made programmatically. GoDaddy do not seem to offer this, so I figured this might be a good ...
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How To Get Alexa Sites Linking Using PHP
I am planning to get the Alexa sites linking of a given website.
I am looking to do this in PHP. Please suggest me is Alexa providing any API. Is there any tool? Is it free? Is there any API that I ...
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What's the best way to implement texting into my webapp?
I'd like to allow users to text to a certian number in order to complete actions on their accounts. An example would be
update name with Captain
Basically what I'm asking is about is a service that ...
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Free/cheap Whois Api
Is there a free API where I can pull whois data and server location data?
(similar to who.is)
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Photo printing service API for my photo sharing website [closed]
I am triying to find a good photo printing service that will allow users of my photo sharing website to order print versions of the photos that they have uploaded to my site. I have looked at Snapfish ...
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Domain registration partnership + availability check
I would like to create a simple module for my website that prints keywords and tells the user if the keyword is available to register as domain. Is there any domain name registrar who gives any kind ...
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Yahoo Site Explorer API replacement?
Since the Yahoo Site Explorer Web Services API is going away at the end of 2010, are there any other web search APIs that offer similar information?
In particular, I'm interested in services similar ...
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Alternative to the deprecated Google Web Seach API
This question is slightly related to the question located here.
My current solution is using the deprecated Google Web Search API - but since it's deprecated, qeuries to the API is now limited. This ...
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Creating a “presentable”/filtered twitter profile widget
I would like to include a subset of tweets I make on my professional web development site.
Now, twitter provides two applicable widgets:
a profile widget and a search widget
Unfortunately, the ...
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email server services for websites
I have a growing website and I don't want to deal with setting up a mail server to send emails through. Currently I am using Google Apps and sending emails via a Java program that I wrote. However, it ...
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Crossing Twitter follow info with members database
I have an email database with a couple of thousand members and a twitter account with a couple of thousand followers. Many of them are in both lists for sure.
For the purpose of segmenting the email ...
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SSL on site which asks API via HTTPS
For example I have a site site.com. It has its own http json api: api.site.com. API has authorisation and it runs under https.
Now, I need to make visualization of some functionality of json api - so ...
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Dictionary API for a website?
I would like to have a dictionary for my website where the user can easily fill in a word or better yet right click a word and get the definition right there on the page or something along those ...
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Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled. So How to handle it?
I have a site which pulls photos from Instagram API. Recently I got a shocking message from Google that "Google AdSense ad serving has been disabled" for the "ADULT/PORNOGRAPHY" reason.
I believe ...
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Backend admin interface with multiple web services [closed]
What is the easiest way to receive data from different web services (Shopify, Amazon Marketplace Web Service, CRM applications, social media platforms, etc.) for an Internet retailer who wants to be ...
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GEO Tool - commercial use
what i want to do:
offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store.
only the specific client is able to ...
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PHP W3 Validator API, Is this good? [closed]
I was trying to find a way to see if my site's code was valid or not but I continuously going over to W3 Validator so I decided to make an "API" however it really isn't!
I just wanted to know if ...
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utility to pull in the entries of an rss feed with a certain date range
I'd like to include a section on my daily blog post that could capture/aggregate my activity from twitter, github, etc on that day. Ideally this information could be displayed in a visually ...
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Best way to implement user-powered data validation
I run a product recommendation engine and I'm hitting a few snags. I'm looking to see if anyone has any recommendations on what I should do to minimize these issues.
Here's how the site works:
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Weather Widget/API
I am developing a website and am looking for an easy piece of code that I can add to a webpage that will display the weather for today and also for the next 5 days for a given location (Wellington, ...
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Amazon Affiliate search using a movie title
I am currently working on a movie trailer site. I have over 300 movies and I do not want to add an amazon affiliate link to each one individually.
Does amazon offer any sort of api that will allow me ...
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Is PhotoBucket a viable solution to host a website's photo galleries
I'm currently working with a lot of photographers and will probably be picking up development on a professional photography site soon.
With that in mind, and I can't stop thinking about a way I can ...
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Which image sharing websites supports file uploading dynamically via api
I have been searching for image hosting website that displays images of a user in a nice and managed way.
I want to upload the files to that image hosting website in my account of that website from a ...
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Google Search API
Can someome tell me if there is an API to get search results form Google? I went through the Google Search APIs, but could not find anything that will let me get search results (the custom search api ...
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Contextual Advertising API like GMail Ads
Which advertising network has an API I can use to show my users targeted ads based on certain dictionary words present in their user-generated content, similar to GMail's targeted ads?
Edit: The ...
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What features in a website make you want to revisit?
I'm looking for features in websites that I may not have seen before that are unique, and are excellent features that not only improve the user-experience, but help the surfers come back for more.
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historical weather data APIs
I am building a web application where I need to display whole year's month wise weather conditions. So that users get an idea of what the weather conditions are like and plan their trips accordingly.
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What is the best currency API out there? [closed]
I may be asking an odd question, but webmasters seem like a decent place to post this.
I'm in the search for an accurate, easy API (such as using JSON or XML) so I can use my web application.
I've ...
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creating unlimited sub domains programmatically through api
Note
Consider each subdomain as unique application instance
For information about application architecture visit
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Searching for an online shop accessible via API
I need an online shop with a custom interface (customizing items with Ajax, with a preview included). Writing it myself does not make too much sense (implementing all the payment options etc.), so I ...
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Best ways to collect location-based user input
I'm working on a website where users will be able to register and provide information about their location. In order to prevent users from inputting incorrect data, we don't want users to provide ...
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Is there a free file hosting service with an exposed API for accessing content (or hotlinking for GETs)?
For a small business site we are looking at possibly free file hosting solutions such that a file can be uploaded by the user and our backend (Java) web service is able to update/modify the data at ...
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Recomendation for Webshop with API
I'm searching for a webshop. The problem with my search is, that the webshop-software of my choice needs to have a useabel API or some interface for external applications. E.g. i need to place orders ...
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Is there a simple way to query the top URLs in Google Analytics?
I'm looking for an easy way to query GA programmatically in order to display the most popular pages on my site.
GA has a Data Export API, but it seems kind of complex to work with for what I want to ...
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SEO and APIs: Helping or hurting?
I have a couple Real Estate sites for some clients, and I was wondering about APIs and how that would affect SEO.
Particularly, I'm looking at using the Yelp API for nearby stuff, and possibly a ...
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Fetching templates via API. Who provides this service?
I'm mainly a server side developer. I'm not a designer, even if I understand web layouts, grids, CSS, typography, valid markup, etc. and I'm able to do some graphic work too (almost). It just takes a ...
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SEO question, getting info about websites
I don't know much about SEO.
I have a csv file with 200,000 links to websites
i want to add another field (or maybe couple of them) to each link in the csv file with page ranking of each link and ...
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Step by step weather API tutorial
Where can I find a good step by step tutorial about some api weather implementation?
I´m really new in this, so official documentation is not always as clear as I need to begin to understand.
The ...
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Is Smush it a reliabe service? [closed]
Smush it is an online compression tool for images provided by Yahoo. However, despite being maintained by a big company, it is often very slow and even offline.
In their FAQ there is a question about ...
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GAPI output doesn't match Google Analytics website
I have to get the main info about my Google Analytics Goals.
I'm using GAPI lib, with this code:
<?php
require_once 'conf.inc';
require_once 'gapi.class.php';
$ga = new ...
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Automated outgoing money transfer for payouts?
At the end of a month I'll need to automatically transfer money from an account to a huge number of other accounts. This has to happen automatically through an API because the amounts for the ...
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When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active? [closed]
When does Twitter api V1.1 will be active?
I can see warnings for Deprecated version, but when do we expect the
new version to come alive.
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Adding description for words on your website
I am creating a website with a lot of programming language, and words that are related to programming and application development.
Now I like the idea to have a tooltip on certain words, let's say a ...
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In-browser painting app
I want to offer visitors of my site an in-browser drawing app.
Which apis help me doing that for free and easily without showing too much of it's origin like by using a link or a huge ad of the ...
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Airline Ticketing [closed]
How does airline ticketing works. Is there any software which we can integrate in client's existing CMS website to allow visitors to book airplane tickets through there existing system.
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When Will the Google Webmaster Tools API allow access to the Average Position in the Search Queries section of their tool? [closed]
I'm wondering if anyone has early access to the search queries / average position data via the Google Webmaster Tools API yet?
Do you know of any tools that have access to this part of the API? Does ...
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Sudden connection problems with Akismet
I've had the Akismet anti-spam plugin installed and working great on two of my non-commercial Wordpress blogs for the past couple of months. Both sites are using my same API key.
Today, on one blog ...
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PHP Library to accept logins from Facebook and Google?
I'm making a site and I want creating accounts / logging in to be very easy, so I want to support logins with Facebook Connect and Google Accounts. I know both offer APIs, but seems like a lot of ...
