I have starting looking into the classic newbie question of protecting a javascript API. Using API keys and such. I have also found the classic answer, that it can't be done. At least not completly secured.
Then I start thinking. When I use Google Maps javascript API, I provide a API key. Somehow I doubt that Google exposes there quite extensive API if API keys can be stolen simply by copying the key.
So How does google protect their API? How do I adapt this in my service?
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I'm looking for a job-searching API (sort of like Indeed.com's API) which can run oh HTML/JS. Preferably, it could locate the latitude and longitude of the jobs. It'd also be great if it were free, as this isn't a professional project.
I'm making a job-searching portal, which takes user's input and searches for jobs in a nearby radius. It then will return the data values back to the user. I have all the data I need, but I just need the API for locating such jobs.
Here's an example of what I was working with (before the API discontinued) :
https://rapidapi.com/indeed/api/indeed
I was originally planning on using Indeed.com's, but I found out it was discontinued and I am not able to find any more APIs, the ones that I find don't work (I'm using RapidAPI for searching for these APIs if that helps). If any of you know any such API, it would help a lot!
Google translate provides a very simple solution of adding a dropdown to translate an entire page:
https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_translate.asp
It looks like Bing used to provide a similar tool before it was merged into Microsoft's cloud service. Is this possible to do anymore with Microsoft? I only see them providing REST endpoints, would it be much more difficult to achieve the same thing?
I was wondering if/when google classroom API will have javascript tutorials? I have worked on the quickstart, but having trouble finding any way to create a classroom through javascript. I have limitations in the project.
How do you create a course in the API with javascript?
As far as I can tell, the JavaScript client is basically calling the REST API.
https://developers.google.com/classroom/quickstart/js
The REST reference is here
https://developers.google.com/classroom/reference/rest/#collection-v1courses
We are planning to develop a JavaScript API to expose some of our Java EE based services. We are doing this keeping Google Maps API
in mind. Can someone please suggested where we should start and the approaches that we need to follow to create a useful and
extensible JavaScript API? Any suggestion will be greatly helpful for us.
More than google maps, I think you should look at twitter which has a very nice REST API. (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api) REST is the key of building your API.
Part from that, you should also think about generating API keys, so you have control about who is doing what with your services
Also that seems like a good reading to start:
http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-07-03-nobody-understands-rest-or-http
Definitely look to make it a RESTful JSON Api and then you'll be able to use it for various purposes. APIs like twitter et. al. are good models (although there is a lot of back and forth about what is completely REST).
I'm a big fan of Mike Pearce's take on how to design good APIs: http://blog.mikepearce.net/2010/08/08/api-anti-patterns-how-not-to-write-a-restful-api/
I am trying to do some basic geocoding using the google maps API and a GWT dyanmic web project in Eclipse. For example, query the following URL:
http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=1600+Amphitheatre+Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&output=json&sensor=false
and get back the data for parsing. I am running into some confusion about whether it is better to set up a proxy or somehow use JSON with javascript (the 2 answers that I've come across to tutorials for). I have not been able to get either method working -- so I'm looking for some guidance. Thanks for your help in advance --
-Andrew
Why not just use the GWT Maps API? I think you can use the Geocoder class to do what you want.