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I'm working on a webshop. And would like to add the feature to be able to post product images to the shops Instagram account when a new product is added.
The thing is that the Instagram API does not seems to allow to post images. Either does the official Instagram Website. And a Google Search gives me multiple SO QA which says the same.
But at the same time, there seems to be a ton of websites, applications, and services and other non-emulators who let you post to Instagram (to mention a few: http://techwiser.com/effectivly-use-instagram-on-pc-upload-pics-bluestacks/ and http://dskgrm.com/ is another one, there also seems to be some WordPress plugins who does it ex. https://github.com/roladn/wordpress-to-instagram but I'm not too good with eirhet PHP or WordPress to be able to tell how they have done it.).
And before anyone reports it as a duplicate. I do not consider this a duplicate since all other QA simply states that it is not possible via the API, but obviously, it is possible somehow, and I'm wondering how.
So I simply wondering how people are successfully implementing this feature when either the API or the official website allows it?
No official way to post media to Instagram doesn't mean that there is no way to do this.
If you are a developer you could simply reverse engineering the Instagram API and build some software to use that, otherwise you could just use some tools already developed.
PHP
mgp25/Instagram-API
Python
b3nab/instapy-cli
And if this don't fit your needs you can go to github and search some other softwares already developed.
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I want to be able to contribute to Google Translate on my native language (Sinhala).
Although there is an online portal (http://translate.google.com/community/) where we can contribute to the translator by translating new phrases or validating existing translations, I would like to create my own, lightweight portal (maybe an Android app) for the contribution service. However, I was unable to find any public API for the translate contribution platform, despite a thorough Google search and a full search through the Google Translator Toolkit API forum (https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!categories/translator-toolkit-api) (which seems to have been closed down since the end of 2012).
Currently my best hope is to mimic the request-response sequence followed by the online portal itself. For example, the following request is used by the online portal to fetch a question list for manual translation:
GET http://translate.google.com/community/question_list?sl=en&tl=si&client=t
However, it requires that all the related cookies are properly initialized and passed with the request, which would probably not be easy to mimic in a non-browser environment (such as an Android app). Hence I believe there's a better approach (maybe a yet undocumented API?) somewhere out there.
Does anyone know of any API for accessing this translation contribution feature?
Thanks in advance.
Please note: I am NOT looking for a way to improve Google Translate itself, but for contributing to the actual translation content as described under "How can I help?" in the Google Translate Community FAQ (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dwS4CZzgZwmvoB9pAx4A6Yytmv7itk_XE968RMiqpMY/pub#h.e1ahmpftpdum).
P.S. I was initially planning to post this question on the Web Apps Stack Exchange, but after reading this post I decided to first try it here.
I'm one of the engineers behind Translate Community and I'm really excited that you want to see it on more platforms. We're currently under active development of the site and making it more accessible on mobile platforms without having to create dedicated native apps.
For the time being, we don't anticipate releasing a public API as the platform is under active development. Until we do release a public API, please don't use any http commands you find to create a separate app. Instead, just let us know how we can make the app a better experience for you and we'll work on making it better.
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Is there any official Google API for getting the number of "plus one" actions for a given URL?
There is this common method which doesn't seem to be using an official API.
Are we allowed to use this API at all? Even if we are, it could stop working anytime, right?
The API endpoints in the official Google+ API do all require some activity ID and thus can't give you the "plus one" count for any given URL, can they?
This is not currently a feature of our API. You can request the feature by filing it in our Issue Tracker (https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/entry?template=Feature%20Request%20-%20REST%20API). We use these reports and the number of Stars they receive to track developer feedback.
Also, you are correct that any method call not officially supported and documented (https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/) may change in the future as we continue to build out our APIs. Sometimes clever developers find cool ways of doing things, but we do not guarantee that unsupported features will not change.
For site analytics on your sites, you get activity on Google +1 and Share through Google analytics. You can even set up Custom Analytics to monitor this.
For the +1 widget, there is not an official API to access the counts and the APIs referenced should probably be avoided for the reasons you mention (it could stop working, may not be working correctly to begin with). I can think of a few reasons people shouldn't be able to programmatically pull analytics from any arbitrary site on the web - probably a part of the reason that this does not exist first party from Google. If you feel it's an important feature, please add or star a feature request in the issue tracker - you should add it to the widgets section.
For in-network activity on Google+ the Activities resource documents everything that is available to you when looking at content on Google+. You can, for example, +1 a post, then share the +1 and track the analytics on Google+ watching the activity if you're doing this, you should be able to use the list of "plusoners" to determine the count of people who have made +1s on a post. See it in action using the API Explorer here:
Activities for +GusClass
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I've been working on a uniform payments system similar to Active Merchant for the past few months. So far I've integrated Authorize.net, PayPal Payments Pro, and and Psigate. Basically you use one set of method calls, one set of parameters for making requests, and you get one set of responses.
I've spent the past 5 hours looking for the next gateway to integrate. Braintree has a great API, but unfortunately they lock you into using the SDK and don't just give you the basic API documentation so you can write your own code.
I looked at Barclays, Ogone, Realex, and a few others, but unfortunately many of them don't have public api access (Barclays), have it but don't give you a key immediately (Realex), or have it but the signup process is broken (Ogone).
I'm hoping to cherry pick a few gateways to integrate with who offer something at least half as developer friendly as CampaignMonitor offers with their v3 REST api:
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/api/getting-started/
Can anyone recommend payment gateways that respect the fact that I'm a developer and just want to integrate open source software with them, and shouldn't have to go through a ton of bull shit to do it?
I don't care what country / currency - I'm just looking for developer friendly solutions that will allow me to start writing code today.
You could have a look at http://www.beanstream.com - based in Canada. They support CAD, USD, etc.
I've played a little with their API, but havent done any significant development with it.
I do remember seeing an API wrapper package (maybe in .net or classic asp, I cant remember).
good luck.
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Does google offer a way to programmatically see their search engine results for a certain query?
I want to build a tracking application so that a user can see what rank on the google results their website is for certain keywords.
EDIT: The behavior of the program would be: every day the program queries Google for the desired phrases, sees what position the user's websites are, and emails the users an update of their positions for their phrases.
I want to be sure to comply with Google's terms of service too.
After finding this question I have been researching as the other answers seem out of date.
The Google search API would be the obvious choice as quoted by other users however it is now been deprecated in favour of Custom Search API.
Although not obvious at first the Custom Search API does allow you to search the entire web. However the bad news is that the order of the results are not the same as a regular web search.
In conclusion it used to be possible however it is no longer. The new API (at a cost) will allow you to search the web to you will not be able to get the ranking back as required.
I know the question is Google specific, but it doesn't hurt to try out other search engines which might be more open to API integration.
Check out DuckDuckGo's API.
Try google custom search api. Get a developer API key from google and get a cx code for search engine. The procedure is given in my blog http://preciselyconcise.com/apis_and_installations/search_google_programmatically.php
Yes, Google provides a search API that you can use:
The Google AJAX Search API lets you
put Google Search in your web pages
with JavaScript. You can embed a
simple, dynamic search box and display
search results in your own web pages
or use the results in innovative,
programmatic ways. See the examples
below for inspiration.
Don't let the name fool you, this API can be used for more than just JavaScript on a webpage.
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I'm building an application where users can upload pictures. All I require is for the user to upload the initial photo, and manage the title, description, tags and spatial data for kml. The ability to upload videos would be nice.
These pictures will be used as part of a custom google map application.
I'm more interested in the effectiveness of apis vs. which service is better, as long as the above requirements can be met.
I've read that the Flickr api is great, but I'm looking for some firsthand info from those who have worked with both apis.
The other option is of course to manage this data inside the application.
I'm working with .net and jquery.
Thanks!
I've decided to go with Picasa, simply because I'm already using the goolge api with Youtube. Also, Picasa allows for simple google maps integration - all I have to do is add a GeoRss overlay to the rss feed from the album.