Best application program interfaces: III

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1. Google Maps Geocoding API:

Geocoding refers to the computational process of transforming a postal address description to a location on the earth’s surface (spatial representation in numerical coordinates). The Google Geocoding application programming interface accepts a location name, such as an address, city, or postal code and returns the geographic coordinates needed to plot the place on a map. This API uses street view technology. In order to use the Google geocoder, it needs to be combined with a Google Map.

Google maps geocoding API

2. Facebook API:

Facebook offers two application program interfaces namelr Graph API and Rest API. The Facebook Graph API allows you to read and write data to and from Facebook in a way that uses objects (think user profiles, friends, posts, photos, likes, and so on) and their relationships or connections with each other. This approach makes thye Facebook API more consistent when working with objects. Both the Graph and the REST APIs are applicable to native and mobile web applications, including mobile web content within native applications through the use of WebViews. Also, Graph API objects are assigned a unique ID and are easily addressable using an URL that can be further qualified to address a specific object/connection. Moreover, you can retrieve an object, delete an object, publish objects, search, update objects, filter results, and even dynamically discover the connections/relationships of objects using this API.

Facebook API screenshot

3. Twitter API:

This is yet another widely used application program interface. Twitter micro-blogging service includes two RESTful APIs. Core Twitter data can be accessed using Twitter REST API methods. This includes update timelines, status data, and user information. On the other hand, Search API methods give developers methods to interact with Twitter Search and trends data. The application program interface presently supports data formats like XML, JSON, and the RSS and Atom syndication formats.