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ProgrammableWeb tracks web APIs & it shows a useful list when you search with the keyword "dictionary"
FOLDOC.org & WordNet from Princeton University provide their dictionary database for free. Customizing the database will require some programming.
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From this similar question on StackOverflow:
National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) (web services)
World Weather Online (paid)
More from this question:
National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) SOAP Web Service
Wolfram Alpha for developers
And even more:
Infochimps Geo API
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I work in the address verification field for SmartyStreets. Actually we added geocoding and residential/business indication (RDI) features to our address API not too long ago and so I think I can point you in the right direction as you do your own research to find what fits your needs the best.
You'd be interested to know that Google and Bing may know more ...
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(I work for Twilio)
Twilio meets your requirements, with the following caveats:
We support short codes with the same simple API http://www.twilio.com/sms/short-codes
Opt-in and opt-out capabilities are left up to your application logic
We have the cleanest API of any gateway I've used (I was in a similar situation as you prior to working here so I have a ...
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Take a look at the SEOmoz API. I haven't used it, but I generally find that SEOmoz is a smart company that does their homework, so they would be the first place I would check. They have a free version for up to 1 million links, anchor texts, or pages per month and a paid version for a starting rate of $500/month. They also offer developer accounts, but you ...
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We looked at this for an implementation earlier this year. We considered 2:
European Central Bank
http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html
free
lists exchange rates against the Euro
Limited number of currencies
XE
http://www.xe.com/dfs/product.php
USD540 a year for daily lookups
available for a variety of base currencies
very ...
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The Data Export API really is the simplest way to get the data from Google Analytics although you have more options - and more comprehensive data, given that Google Analytics does not track spiders or users with Javascript disabled - if you parse your own server logs.
The Data Export API Protocol page includes instructions which you can test on the command ...
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there is a whois xml api. do a google search for it. If you are looking for WHOIS for marketing (which is not allowed), then i would use a 3rd party. If you do too many whois requests from an ip, then whois servers begin to block you.
The xml services i have seen get around this.
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You can use the RSS feed from Twitter, store the entries in your database (to get past the 24/72 hour limit) and use a #hashtag or similar which you can check for to see if should be published.
How often you check the feed, how purge database entries and how many #hashtags you use is up to you and the amount of time you have.
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Make it a game where people get points for fixing the data (checking that the pricing APIs product is the same, isn't invalid etc.)
People with low points don't get awarded them until a number of other users have fixed the data in the same way. As people get more points it needs fewer other people to crosscheck them, until people with very high points don't ...
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Sounds like you're looking for the HTML5 Canvas object (or you'll need something written in Flash or java).
possible to save the result as image and to interact with it via PHP
Meaning you want to save it serverside - which is an exact duplicate of Uploading 'canvas' image data to the server
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Magento is fast becoming the favoured open source e-commerce platform. (eBay recently acquired it, but don't let that put you off.) All versions, including the free Community Edition are still licensed under OSL-3.0 and they also offer a paid Enterprise Edition (compare editions here) as well as a hosted version.
The Magento API is documented here, and the ...
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It seems that I'm able to answer my own question while using the new Custom Search API.
Creating a Custom Search Engine will initially ask you to provide sites or pages that you want your CSE to search in. By filling in a sample website and creating the CSE you are then able to manage and adjust it after the creation process. Here you can tell the CSE that ...
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I'm not sure what you mean by "update/modify the data", but there are probably few free file hosting services that allow hotlinking. It's just not a sustainable business model, especially if you have an exposed API wherein not even the uploader will have to come to your site. There are also a lot of copyright infringement liabilities regarding public file ...
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I don't think W3C had your use case in mind when they made the validator. Why not run your own? The script you made is going to be very slow because it is relaying all requests. Also, your script won't run cleanly on E_STRICT. Also, your script doesn't encode URI parameters. Also, you are unnecessarily using regexes. Also, you are not HTML encoding your URI.
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I've never pulled activity data out of Github, so the below only applies directly to Twitter. I would imagine a lot of it is more or less the same for Github, though.
I wouldn't rely on RSS for anything from Twitter. They've been killing it off ever since they started previewing NewTwitter. I actually think it's entirely gone now except for a few places ...
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you are looking for jQuery or similar type javascript/AJAX type stuff. What you trying todo has been done many times before and is available in many open source libraries, just find the right library and use it.
and mix it up with a free service yourself, someone asked this question before
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You can become a enom reseller and use their API: http://www.enom.com/resellers/api-reseller.aspx
Domai.nr has an interesting API and concept: http://domai.nr/api
iwantmyname.com will have an API soon: http://iwantmyname.com/developer/domain-dns-api
name.com has a reseller api: http://www.name.com/reseller/
goddady: ...
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I would start with an existing platform like OpenCart or any other open source framework and THEN customize it to meet your needs. Definitely no reason to do all of the hardwork that's already been done, but definitely worth customizing the remaining items on your to-do list.
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As an advice, if you're current skills are limited, and the project is a little too much, don't take it, there will be tons of other oportunities when you're skills have increased.
Having said so, i recommend that you invest time into any one of available php frameworks, some are incredibly easy to work with, and will make your tasks super easy.
Building ...
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It will depend on your DNS hosting is done.
I personally use Zonomi. They have a DNS API. I can issue a request like https://zonomi.com/app/dns/dyndns.jsp?action=SET&name=mynewsubdomain.example.com&value=10.0.0.1&type=A&api_key=apikeyvaluehere to set the IP address for a new subdomain.
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If you're using the free Google Apps, they impose a 500-email-per-day quota.
Upgrade to Google Apps for Business: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/ for "unlimited" email. It will save you the trouble of experimenting with new companies and having to migrate MX records.
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Completely viable, yes. A good idea... depends.
I did something similar with imgur.com a while ago kind of testing the same thing. Technical issues I couldn't really find, like you said especially if you pay for a premium account.
I just felt out of control with my content privacy wise. That said Photobucket does have a way of making your images ...
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I would re-emphasize the importance of validating the information you collect. After all, if it's important enough to collect it, you better make sure it's correct against the right authorities/sources. If it's not that important, why collect it at all and burden the user?
I work for SmartyStreets where we validate users' locations, specifically their ...
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While my IP is dynamic (DHCP) it's never accurate to my city at times the city can be 60 miles away. If you're application is forcing users to that city you're going to have a high bounce rate.
You're best bet is to use MaxMind IP to Country database which is stored locally and is faster than API's. Gather the country of the IP behind the scenes don't force ...
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If you're worried about your customers finding out what template site you purchased the design from I wouldn't link to it in anyway be it a modal iframe etc. I would suggest you get full size screen shots and put them into a gallery. None have any API that I know of to let you fetch template data be it a link to the template page, screen shots, or live ...
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You can track the uptime status of the Akismet API at http://status.automattic.com/9931/136079/Akismet-API
If the Akismet API is listed as up (it generally is, we have really good availability) then your hosting provider is in the best position to help track down why your WordPress site is no longer able to reach akismet.com.
We've found the two most ...
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You can extract info from any public web page using Google Docs Spreadsheet function ImportXML.
ImportXML lets you get information from filetypes such as xml, html, csv, tsv, as well as RSS and Atom feeds
Once you have the extracted info in a Google Docs Spreadsheet, you can choose to embed it within a web page.
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Another possible alternative is to use email addresses. All carriers have email addresses tied to phone numbers. so you can simply use those email addresses for free to send/receive SMS messages if that works for you. Any phone can also sent an SMS to an email address, as opposed to a phone number, and as far as I know this has worked since years and years ...
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