I am creating a database which will contain information about book. (title, author, description, edition etc). Is there anyway i can download book data from the web so that i can insert in my database. I want database to have between 500 - 1000 books information. The database is in Sql Server.
Most well known book content API's are from Amazon.com and more recent from Google (Amazon's API can often seen been republished on the web):
Amazon Content API program
Google Book Search API
To see what is allowed with the Amazon API please see:
Amazon Content API agreement
Some excelent info on other providers can be found here:
Code4lib: Using Book Data Providers to Improve Services to Patrons
You could source data from websites like Amazon.com - they have APIs for this. But, you may not be able to redistribute the data without permission from Amazon. There's nothing stopping you from getting public domain data from a government organisation like the Library of Congress - they probably have it somewhere.
If you are just looking for sample data you can use the pubs db that comes with ms sql server
The Internet Archive offers Open Library bulk exports in a variety of formats (MARC, primarily). If you are looking for records for specific books, you might look at LibraryThing's API.
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I would like to know if there is an API that gives freely the flight paths of all aircraft currently flying or that had flight some days ago over the world. It could be in any projection and any format. I imagine that it would be most likely a table with each row being an aircraft/flight and the correspondent geopath in one column.
Thanks.
I was looking around for the same topic.
The terms and conditions for getting data from Flightradar24 are shown there
https://www.flightradar24.com/terms-and-conditions
... they talk only about getting data after a business contract on the kind of data (e.g. flights with a specific filtering) and on the format (JSON, CSV, ?). With the contract one may download the data, maybe via an API.
My conclusion: Flightradar24 does not share its full set of data, only a limited set with payment.
Searching for "Flightradar24 API" you will find some sites offering Flightradar24 data via their own API primarily requiring payment, a few for free at a very low level.
You will also find some software projects for accessing and processing data from the Flightradar24 sites with a focus on Python. But these software packages build on tracking the access of the Flightradar24 site from a mobile app or the desktop browser. Result: a few accesses of an endpoint may work then comes the stop sign: Flightradar requires an authenticated access.
Long time ago, I took and passed the Google Analytics IQ certification test. At the time, I don't believe there were such things as Core Reporting API, Management API, and Metadata API (and probably some other Google Analytics related API's that I don't know about). Now that I am going through the Google Analytics IQ certification training course again (provided by Google, presented by Justin Curtoni?? I believe that's his name), I found that they now have Core Reporting API, Management API, and Metadata API.
I am a computer programmer by trade; so, I have no problem with programming using these API's. However, what I don't understand is, what do these API's buy me that the Google Analytics UI cannot offer? There is no reason to write a program that utilizes these API's simply because I can do it. To me, the existing Google Analytics UI has a lot of tools, reports, and other features that quite extensive. I am hoping that some of you can help me see something that I am probably missing.
The APIs are primarily for programmatic access. For example, if you need to create 1000 accounts all with the same property/view structure and then maybe add a few view filters to each of those accounts, you'll probably want to use the Management API. Doing that by hand would be a nightmare.
The same thing is true for the reporting API. Maybe you want to set up task that runs every monday morning and reports on the previous weeks data. And maybe you want to display that data on an internal dashboard for your company using some fancy charting library. You'd have to use the API to get the data.
Dashboards (executive summaries; managers often want nice visualizations instead of boring drill-downs)
Custom reports for user groups that do not have a Google Account or are not supposed to have access to full reports (e.g. Affiliates)
advanced filtering and aggregation (GA report cannot do everything)
You can combine analytics data with external data (e.g. you are not allowed to store personally identifiable information within GA; but you might store a custom key that allows you to link analytics data to customer data from you CRM or fulfillment system)
Machine-to-machine communication; I once did tracking for an airline that needed trend data on what people where searching for and what they where actually booking; that data was used to allocate/withdraw resources from busy/lame flights, and part of this was done by hooking up GA to their backend system
Take a look at the GA Partner Page. I would say the primary reason is to "liberate" GA Data from outside of GA itself. As Eike mentions, you can create dashboards and combine this data with other sources for a complete "View" of your online presence.
HI I guess there is no definite answer. Here are some things you can do with the APIs:
Automating AdWords CRO based on keyword ad and campaign performance.
Scoring leads based on Analytics data (Engagement with different items) and external data from a CRM.
Collecting unsampled data using multiple daily queries
Filtering using several dimension.
Tracking conversions for periods longer than supported by AdWords.
Looking at a funnel via segments
Analyzing funnels with non-linear structures
Create more robust alerts
Export data to BigQuery and analyse it together with data from other systems.
Create Machine learning apps for behavioural customizing your site.
Create a dashboard with data from multiple views
Use product recommendation to implements "better together" in an online store.
Automate creation of accounts and properties + their integration in a Hosting provider's console.
Cheers!!
I am attempting to send emails to all of the users currently following a topic when a reply is posted in IBM Connections. In IBM's API I can find how to assign a user to follow a forum topic but I do not see any way to retrieve a list of all the users that are currently following a specific topic. Does anyone know if this kind of functionality exists?
AFAIK, that information is not available via the API.
You can get a list of the resources followed by the authenticated user via the Following API, but that does not work for any other users (I assume due to privacy issues).
You could fetch it the info you are looking for from the database via SQL statements, but that is not officially supported, as the databases could/will change with every product update. In the IBM Connections Forum at developerworks, there is an example for Communities.
I've googles about it, yet couldn't understand it properly.. Not sure if it's a library or intra-server communicator..
Can someone explain me in a high-level /low-level what is meant by an API.??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
Read it from here , will hopefully clear most of your doubts.
An API stands for Application Programming Interface, which means using and existing program or code and accessing it with your code.
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Example, Search Engine:
Search engine 1: offers search and api (if you want this can be google)
Search engine 2: uses googles api to get results (this is your one)
To get results you basically search the other search engine and get their results to yours
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An API can be used in many ways, to access others data or code, ect
An in-depth explination can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
An application-programming interface (API) is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a Web-based software application or Web tool. A software company releases its API to the public so that other software developers can design products that are powered by its service.
For example, Amazon.com released its API so that Web site developers could more easily access Amazon's product information. Using the Amazon API, a third party Web site can post direct links to Amazon products with updated prices and an option to "buy now."
An API is a software-to-software interface, not a user interface. With APIs, applications talk to each other without any user knowledge or intervention. When you buy movie tickets online and enter your credit card information, the movie ticket Web site uses an API to send your credit card information to a remote application that verifies whether your information is correct. Once payment is confirmed, the remote application sends a response back to the movie ticket Web site saying it's OK to issue the tickets.
As a user, you only see one interface -- the movie ticket Web site -- but behind the scenes, many applications are working together using APIs. This type of integration is called seamless, since the user never notices when software functions are handed from one application to another.
This article shows an example
http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/127316/Integrate-FB-javascript-API-to-your-asp-net-app-to
I want to build a service which needs to get this data from some source for further analysis. Does Google, Yahoo or someone else provides free access to this data for use in other websites using some API. I think Twitter does something like this for their data although they enforce some limits on this. The data I need is mostly for US and Canada.
Thanks,
Gary
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