Why does LinkedIn has REST and JavaScript API samples? One is a JavaScript api and the other is rest api. What purpose does having 2 api's serve? Is one better than the other? Have you used any and faced problems?
Which is more efficient in terms of information retrieval time
LinkedIn has created 2 sets of API to provide greater flexibility to developers.
Javascript API provides a rich and easy-to-use library to quickly create dynamic User Interface in web browsers. It use OAuth 2 to easily authorize users.
Whereas REST API is programming language & platform agnostic. It uses XML/JSON format and its simple. But this requires developers to create their own User Interface. It uses OAuth 1.0a to authorize users.
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Is it possible to use the WhatsApp business API to communicate with users and also allow them to forward content from WhatsApp directly to our application. For example enabling Web-hooks for different WhatsApp channels to receive the messages from those channels. If yes, can someone guide me how can we implement this feature? and how can we authorize those channels with our WA business account
Finding sources/documentation for developing needed feature
Whatsapp API allows you to Broadcast messages to Unlimited Users, automate notifications, integrate Chatbots, provide Live Chat on Multiple devices and many more functions. Install the WhatsApp Business API Client and then Install your API client. Once your client is working, you can update your application settings. Start using the client, Register your phone number with an API call to /account and send a test message with a call to /messages . let me know if u find this helpful.
Yes, it is possible. The WhatsApp Business Platform allows medium and large businesses to communicate with their customers at scale. Using their APIs, businesses can connect thousands of agents and bots to interact with customers programmatically and manually. Additionally, the APIs can be integrated with numerous backend systems, such as CRM and marketing platforms
Here is the link for the documentation: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/overview
Link for different types of webhooks:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/whatsapp/webhooks
There are multiple ways given in the documentation. But keep in mind, do read the documentation carefully, they have their updated and the previous version so use them as per your requirements.
I am developing a dashboard where all (direct) messages, tweets, etc directed at the user will be displayed in one dashboard. All the social media vendors have (OAuth) Rest APIs.
When developing a 3rd party program for an service like Twitter. Is it good practice to request data from the service's API every X milliseconds/seconds, or is there a better way?
It depends on which Twitter API you are interested in. Most of the REST API endpoints have published rate limits found here. If any of these suit your needs, then you would calculate the appropriate frequency of requests that would keep your from exceeding the rate limit.
Alternatively, if you are accessing Twitter's Streaming API, you would never close the connection.
What is the difference between the “Google+ API” and the “Google+ API (Sign-in)”?
The Google+ API (Sign-In) seems to be suited at allowing a developer to integrate the Google login in into their application to allow their app to have an OAuth token to interact with Google services.
The Google+ API on the other hand is just the Google API that allows access to a users Google+ API data, you will need an authentication token to access this data.
The two different quota buckets refer to two different subsets of the API that are available. You can see https://developers.google.com/+/api/#quota for the details, but broadly speaking:
The Sign-In portion applies to methods that specifically need the plus.login scope. These include people.get, people.list, moments.insert, moments.remove and moments.list. This is a much larger quota to encourage people to use these methods.
The other, more broad, bucket is for all other methods, including those for Activities and Comments and a few others for People.
Is there a possibility to create events for Google Plus Communities via an API?
The only related post I could find is this one: Is there an API for the Google Plus Events but it only considers requesting events.
No, the G+ API is currently read-only.
Note: The Google+ API currently provides read-only access to public data. All API calls require either an OAuth 2.0 token or an API key.
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Can I use Adwords API developer token for multiple applications? In more detail, say if I have a website where I am using adwords API developer token, Can I use the same token for another application. Ofcourse both applications accessing the same account after all.
Thanks,
Murali.
You can use the AdWords API across different applications with just one API token, just make sure though that you are caching the authentication response and re-using those tokens otherwise you'll hit the throttle limit. (Incidentally, logging in is possibly the slowest part of their API, so caching the response will speed up your application considerably)
No doubt you can use same development token for your multiple applications which are accessing same account. If your applications will access different account then it needs to get different developer token.
For the reference, you can read http://goo.gl/zLBPF
Hope it will help you.
Murali,
You need just one developer token, whether your application(s) access same account or different accounts (whether linked under the same MCC hierarchy or not). As a matter of fact, AdWords API Terms and Conditions explicitly prohibits you from getting more than one developer token.
If you use a developer token to make calls, you will be charged for API cost to the account holding the developer token. This is another reason why you should treat your developer token as a password and should reset it immediately if you expose it to the public by say, posting it publicly on a forum.
I also wish to point out that the official AdWords API forum is http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api, you can ask your questions there and someone will answer your questions in a day or two.
Cheers,
Anash
Yes, Adwords even has channels that you can create to separate your ad campaigns
Adword Docs - Campaigns