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What is an API key?
The best description of an API key I can find comes from this article from Apipheny:
When dealing with APIs, you may encounter something called an API key. They’re sort of like passwords which let ...
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What’s the Difference Between a webhook and an API?
I'll illustrate this with a concrete example: Credit card payments.
When your site wants to charge a credit card, you call an API at your credit card processor. The credit card processor then ...
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What is an API key?
API keys are a lot like passwords: They are secrets that allow access.
There are however a few differences:
Passwords are for humans, API keys are for automated access with programs or scripts.
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What is an API key?
The term "API key" is overloaded for two very different meanings. In your case, it's not entirely clear, but from
when one website's API logins to another website's API automatically
(...
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What’s the Difference Between a webhook and an API?
Here's an example of the difference between webhook and API in layman's term:
Say you ordered something online and the delivery would be today but you're at work so you told your maid get the package ...
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How are these URLs highlighting text?
This is called Scroll To Text Fragment, and arrived in Chrome 80.
Here is the draft specification, and the original proposal.
It seems to me that this is another feature that Google just added to ...
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Can't access API that's on a local linux server externally
Ok...
I've been trying to solve this problem for the past 4 days and it turned out that the problem was with the firewall on Linux.
If anyone faces the same problem, run these commands.
iptables -I ...
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What would be the proper rel value for an api endpoint?
We have tended to add API paths on an appropriate (to our applications) data- attribute on a suitable element close to the usage.
<input type="text" name="term"
data-...
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What is an API key?
One important thing to understand is, that there is a difference between authorization (you are allowed to do this thing) and authentication (you really are who you say you are). They are not ...
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ga events api - Which guidelines should I follow
They're both actually the same. The second one in your question is just an abstraction - it shows less data but if you look farther down you can see they're setting app_name and screen_name where you ...
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Google Bot Crawls using expired cookies and fails to get response
As far as i know Google is not using cookies or API when crawling a website, the issue should be something else check again your API errors or servers logs to determine the issue.
Google states:
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Error "Field name is required" - Google Analytics API
@SomewhereDave got me on the right track. If anybody runs into the same issue, here's how I solved it.
Caveats: I'm using googleapis Node.js library, authenticate via JWT (service-to-service ...
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Error "Field name is required" - Google Analytics API
Apparently, you have to provide a JSON object as the request body including values for all possible keys. So, if you want to change your view's name you also provide the id, currency, timezone, etc. ...
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How will using the Wordpress API affect SEO ranking for company blog?
If I understand your situation correctly, you are considering setting up a blog site created by wordpress (on another server) and then pulling the content back to your website via an API. And, you ...
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historical weather data APIs
You can check ClimaCell for this. They have pretty detailed forecasts for anyone working on Big Data or need historical forecasts. Their history API goes as back as 20 years.
It's free for developers ...
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What is an API key?
An API represents an authorized entity. As such it is more analogous to a username+password
Of-course this is a bit of a generalization as different systems may attach different exact meanings to ...
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Azure Console fails any command and shows code containing "Invalid value for encodingHint"
I solved it by creating a new API app (the resource I was trying to deploy to) and switching to it.
One comment suggested reconnecting the storage, but my resource didn't have one.
Call it blue-green ...
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How can I link to a Google Map that shows directions from “My Location” to a Place ID?
Here's the documentation.
You have to use origin, destination, and destination_place_id as the parameters. The destination parameter is required even if you're using a destination_place_id, but the ...
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Will using REST API from my site hosted on wordpress.com result in duplicate content?
It wouldn't be duplicate content unless everything is identical on a page, which includes your template/design output ( effectively a clone of the site ). It could however be seen as syndicated ...
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How to prevent Googlebot from doing API requests?
If the API is being hit on every page load there is no way to display the page without hitting the API.
As @Steve Ostenmier points out you can embed the conversion data in javascript which Google ...
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Why clients might send unsanctioned requests (i.e. where did this POST come from?)
I've previously come across HTTP 301/302 redirects changing a POST request to a GET request but not the other way around. While unlikely, it's possible that a:
(a) proxy server in use by one of your ...
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