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Entries tagged apis in Oct, 2013

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Which is the most complete and up to date API for restaurants/nightlife?

The foursquare API is pretty great for restaurants and nightlife these days. No chance if revenue share though—how would you envisage revenue share working?

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6:48 pm / 19th October 2013 / apis, yelp, quora, foursquare

Which free encyclopedias offer free APIs?

Wikipedia runs using Mediawiki, and Mediawiki has an API: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API

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10:15 am / 19th October 2013 / apis, quora

What information do you feel is most valuable when integrating a Web API (REST or SOAP)?

  • A really good API explorer
  • Comprehensive documentation of the response format, including what happens if certain fields are missing (empty string, null value, missing key?)
  • Comprehensive documentation of the available request parameters, including allowed values
  • What are the rate limits?
  • What is returned if there is an error?

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6:57 pm / 4th October 2013 / apis, quora

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