I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I have a problem with the Blockchain API V2, I tried too many times to request it, but never getting an answer nor my API!? I don't know why.
I searched the web looking for people whom having the same problem as I am, but find nothing. Also I didn't find a way to contact them asking about the delay in giving a simple API code!.
So if anyone has a better idea please let me know.
As an addition I am going to use it in a thirdparty software, where I am not able to add other Bitcoin payments instead of Blockchain one.
I don't know why exactly, but they have become extremely strict as to who they give API keys now. Previously it was very easy, and now they heavily investigate the intended usage. I wouldn't be surprised if the reason has to do with gambling sites and scams that were using their API.
As for recommendations you can run your own node on a VPS or use another 3rd party API. The only one that is as easy to use as blockchain.info, but actually gives out API keys is block.io. The catch is the free version is severely limited. There's also blocktrail, and blockcypher.
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I've been struggling with this for a bit so I was hoping someone here might be able to help. I am using the Best Buy api for my website. I have a developer account, api key, and I believe my account has been approved (the banner at the top saying it's waiting for approval is no longer present). The api works great for many products and I'm able to use it as it is intended. The exception however is that for certain skus I get no results. Here is an example: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pokemon-pokemon-tcg-celebrations-ultra-premium-collection/6473336.p?skuId=6473336. The PS5 is another example. I don't believe it's anything I'm doing since the requests I'm making for other products work fine. I've tried contacting Best Buy's support through the developer portal and haven't been able to reach anyone (it's been 3+ months). Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be going on? Has anyone had any luck with contacting Best Buy regarding issues with the API? Any other solutions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I'm looking to make a hobbie website using the steam API, mostly focusing on the actual products and not really any user info. According to an article by the man behind Steamspy, Valve decided to change their API sometime in 2018, removing a lot of relevant data related to the store.
I went through the steamworks documentation and the closest thing to any specific information about the applications/games were in:
https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/webapi/ISteamApps -
I figured their API must offer more than just a list of all the apps and their ID's, but thus far I have only found some other API:s.
https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/User:RJackson/StorefrontAPI
Seems to be popular in a lot of threads
https://steamapi.xpaw.me/#ISteamApps
Some kind of collection of APIs?
https://github.com/Autarc/steam-store/blob/master/README.md
Not sure if this is still usable?
https://steamspy.com/api.php
Question: If I want the name, ID, genre/tags and picture of a game (and potentially price), is really the only way to use these non-valve related API:s? Or have I missed something in Valves own API documentation?
I'm super new to API:s so please forgive my insolence, I did search a ton of threads but seeing as the API changed I'm not sure which answers still are up to date in 2020.
The storefront API is still up-to-date and should give you what you need, mostly.
There is no API for game tags. You have to get the directly from the store pages or from any of the third party API providers if they have them.
Question: If I want the name, ID, genre/tags and picture of a game (and potentially price), is really the only way to use these non-valve related API:s? Or have I missed something in Valves own API documentation?
No, you have not missed anything. Yes you need to use unoffical APIs. Compared to other gaming stores you still get more data on Steam than anywhere else.
I am afraid the last answer is not fully true.
You can get tags as categories or genres through api eg.https://store.steampowered.com/api/appdetails/?appids=306480
I have been trying for the past several hours to make an authenticated request to the docker hub api. First of all, let me say that their documentation is very unclear. There are several different subdomains that you have to cycle through. The ones I have seen are index.dockerhub.io, registry-1.docker.io/v1/ auth.docker.com/token. There were others. But you get the point. Its like their api is managed by 30 different people or something and they forgot to have a meeting about how to unify their api. It feels like I have read just about everything I could find on the internet about how to do what I am trying to do, and it still is very unclear to me what I am supposed to do.
Their documentation states that I am supposed to get an auth token before making certain request. Ok. Fine. How do I do that? I got lucky and stumbled across the endpoint, https://auth.docker.io/v2/token/ no thanks to their api. I found it by just guessing. I don't know that version 2 is capable of even doing what I am trying to do.
What steps do I need to take to make authenticated request to the dockerhub api. What I am trying to do more specifically, is I am trying to query information about the given images that are on the hub, like the size of the images, and the basic port information that is available. I know its possible, because I have used services that do it. So, how do you properly authenticate request to get this information?
So after a few more hours of working on this problem, I came across someone who had similar issues and wrote a blog post about exactly how to solve it. The short answer is the endpoint that was missing from the docker api documentation is https://cdn-registry-1.docker.io/v1/. Why didn't they document their api better? I don't know. If anyone wants to read the full article about how this is done, you can find it at http://www.appcontainers.com/requesting-image-information-using-the-public-docker-api/
This was the most helpful article I have found on the subject. Hopefully this will help some other poor soul who is trapped in the confusion known as the docker api.
I need to use a bitcoin api, and only have found CoinBox. The problem is that coinbox is limited to only a few sites and isnt open to everyone so I cant use it. Are there any good alternatives to coinbox.me? Thanks.
There are actually quite a few apis. First there is coinbase which is my favorite since they pay the transaction fees for transactions over 0.001 BTC and all internal transactions are absolutely free (and instant). You can see their api. (https://coinbase.com/docs/api/overview). What they lack is that it is hard to grab the TX id's and any other specific information. There is also blockchain.info which is the most feature full, but the downside is that you have to pay all of the fees and it can get to be very expensive. You can see the api. (https://blockchain.info/api). There are a lot more but the problem is that they are very buggy. I hope this helps!
It is not necessary to use web wallets to create addresses. You can install your own bitcoin server/daemon and act like your own bank.
This is the place to start if you want to know how to do it (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Main_Page).
Bitcoin can be queried using JSON RPC methods. So if you are running a bitcoin daemon locally you can just query them. The documentation for the same is located at
Running Bitcoin - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Running_Bitcoin
API Reference - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/API_reference_(JSON-RPC)
API Call List - https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client/API_calls_list
Hope this helps.
Is the backend used by reCaptcha open source? Is it a simple web app that can be deployed in a given container?
Thanks,
LES
It's a web service. It is supplied by a third party.
You can integrate it into your application, but as far as the source code goes, no. Its value is not in the source code but in the images that are supplied. They're not randomly generated but come from books from those parts an OCR system failed to process. So by solving reCaptcha people are actually helping scan books. Somebody takes care of the scanning process and supplied a constant flow of new challenges. Hard to beat.
Running reCaptcha on your own server would be very cumbersome, as it requires a constant supply of image data (scanned books) to work. Also it would kind of beat a part of the purpose, that is digitizing books for the common good. Besides, I don't think it's even available.
This should be able to answer all of your questions for you: recaptcha