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Is there a free way to look up the title of a book using its ISBN number? I know there is isbndb.com, but they limit you to 500 look ups per day. Also I noticed there is the Google Books API, is there a limit with Google Books?
On the Google API's Console, it mentions a "Courtesy limit: 1,000 queries/day". There is nothing that states what happens if you go over.
Take a look at https://sourceforge.net/projects/isbntools/files/latest/download.
Or if you are a developer at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/isbntools.
No. Google does not specifically limit the numbber of lookups. In the TOS they do use the standard laywerspeak, "Google, at its sole discretion, may limit the amount of Google Books Content it delivers to you. ", but I'm sure if you, "Aren't being evil", as they say, you should be good.
Terms of service: http://code.google.com/apis/books/terms.html (which read a lot like the google maps API TOS).
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I use Google news API: 'https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/news?v=1.0&q=cow', but I have this message as a result:
'{"responseData": null, "responseDetails": "This API is no longer available.", "responseStatus": 403}'.
Is there a solution to use Google news API?
As an alternative API to search for aggregated news, you could consider Newsriver (https://newsriver.io). It's API allows to search for online news articles. Newsriver covers a large number of sources, it provides access to standardised structured news and comes with a extended search syntax based on Lucene query syntax.
You can also use gapi (https://gapi.xyz), the developpers basically recreated the same API but much simpler to use and it's totaly free. But you'll get a maximum of 20 results per requests. Anyway it is reasonable for a normal usage.
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I'm guessing this info is privileged since I couldn't find anything on Google's listed APIs. In fact I'd be amazed if it wasn't proprietary securely fastened Google magic, but thought I'd ask anyway.
Is there an Google API for the information appearing when you do a basic search for say an Actress or Rockband? You know the box that appears to the right of the results if google figures out exactly what you're looking for. (I'm specifically interested in musicians despite the example below)
I.e.
https://www.google.com/search?q=woody+allen
I can get similar milage using Freebase, but Google's is always better. For example, It'll even pull upcoming events if it's a Musician, etc.
The Freebase Topic API contains the bulk of what you're looking for.
e.g. https://www.googleapis.com/freebase/v1/topic/en/woody_allen
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I'm looking for alternatives to Google Book Search API.
Ideally, something with more detailed information about books.
Try the RESTful API from ISBN DB http://isbndb.com/api/v2/docs
I have been using the API from the literature social network GoodReads https://www.goodreads.com/api
I find the results are a lot more relevant then Google Books because there relevance ordering takes a books popularity on the site into account. You don't get results like multiple versions of the same book or some obscure essay (this could be a plus or a minus depending on what you're doing).
However, the images are often missing and when they are there they are very low res!
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Any free/paid API to get financial news either world-wide / country specific.
Take it off Yahoo as an RSS feed:
http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/topstories
Reuters News API for non-commercial use.
NewsCloud Web Services has an open API -- commercial use is questionable.
MyAllies Companies Breaking News with JSON output
Example:
http://www.myallies.com/api for all companies recent news.
Or
http://www.myallies.com/api/amzn for Amazon news.
I can recommend financial news aggregator CityFALCON which recently launched their API. They collects news from all around the internet and score them according to the proprietary algorithm. So there is a possibility to sort news not in chronological order but by their relevancy. For more information you can visit this page http://www.cityfalcon.com/blog/investments/financial-news-api-widget/
You can also try www.xignite.com. They support SOAP and building a REST API that you can get news from.
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Working on a movie website and would love to find an API that I could use to get information about different movies. I code in PHP but I'm assuming this would probably return XML.
I can recommend themoviedb.org. We have been using their API in an open source movie managing application with great success.
Quick google search returned this: Internet Video Archive Movie API. It seems to return XML data, so it could work for you.
EDIT: The link is down (thanks #Mutant), Wayback Machine has a backup.
For getting straight-up information about movies (for instance, basic genre and title information) the Amazon associates data works pretty good. There is the condition that the data be used primarily to drive traffic to Amazon, which is something to keep in mind.
There should be a PHP library already written that you can use: http://aws.amazon.com/associates/
Rotten Tomatoes has a free REST API (developer.rottentomatoes.com). The access keys are restricted to 10000 calls/day.