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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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I am looking for a API from a popular game.
Googled a lot and seems to be very hard to find information or api's from games.
A lot for mobile apps but not looking for that.
I've never used this, but I believe Blizzard has a pretty extensive API which I believe is free. They have many popular games played by millions of people, including World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Overwatch, etc.
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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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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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Which popular websites out there support an HTTP based API?
I am looking for content of general public interest (hence, Amazon's RESTful API wouldn't qualify, for example).
Some sites which I am aware of:
Twitter
Netflix
Upcoming
Google
eBay
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Although not a direct programming question, it will help programmers find some inspiration for new projects
A similar question has been asked but didn't get many responses probably because it was very specific about being RESTful.
The site (with blog) "Programmable Web" collects sites, apis and howtos to create mash-ups.
You can search by programming language, protocols, wether you want something with JSON or SOAP and so on and check out existing mash-ups.
http://www.programmableweb.com/