I am currently updating my Twitter client Nymphicus to use http://unshort.me/ to unshorten all the links in tweets. Before that I implemented all the url shortener APIs myself but there are so many...
With images it is quite the same: I do implement all the different APIs out there to get thumbnails but I wonder if anyone knows a service similar to unshort.me which gives you back the url of a thumbnail if you send the image link?
http://embed.ly/ does it, 10k requests free. otherwise it's a pay service.
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I am asking this question after extensively reading Google's recommended approach, but I do have a problem with all these approaches, let me explain the situation.
I use combination of geolocation and geocoding API to know the approximate state location and then display relevant content. The geolocation API needs to be called obviously from the browser to get appropriate geolocation of the user. Google provides HTTP Referrer based restriction for this API. I know someone can easily spoof the referrer and make calls with the same API key. I do not see a huge advantage even though Google recommends this.
On the other hand Google does not allow HTTP Referrer for geocoding API, but it does allow that for the MAPS JavaScript API. But again if you are not using Google maps then using that API is violation of Google's terms. Now google recommends to move the code that uses geocoding web services API to be on the back-end so that your key will be protected. But since ultimately I need to deliver the result to a front-end web application that is publicly accessible and I can only make a browser based Ajax call to first get the geolocation to feed to geocoding, I ultimately need to make an Ajax call to get my geocoding information. Then someone can easily just latch onto my end-point to piggy back on and call the geocoding API as much as they want. So for situations like this I want to know what is the ideal and secured way to deal with. May be there are other APIs that might be an ideal situation for this.
In my case, I am not doing any maps so it's all purely server-side to get latitudes, longitudes and driving distance between two points. This today from Google support which might help and if you're using maps, then the links may provide further insight.
Regarding API restrictions, please note that HTTP referrers will not
work on Geocoding API since HTTP referrers can only be used for client
side services. In other words, Geocoding is a web service API and
should only be used on server-side implementation. IP address
restrictions should be used for web service APIs. However, if you are
using the Geocoding API in a website, IP address restriction would not
work. Please check the suitable restrictions for each API in the
following link:
https://developers.google.com/maps/api-key-best-practices#api_key_table
To make this work, you should create a separate key and use the new
one in your Geocoding API request URL. You may add a restriction to
this key by using an "API restriction", and restrict it to Geocoding
API only. If you don't want to create another key, you may keep using
your current one but make sure to change your implementation and use
the client side Geocoding service from the Maps JavaScript API. In
that case, please refer to this documentation:
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding
Another suggestion would be to get a static IP address from your ISP,
especially if you are planning to use it on a public website. For
development purposes, a sound solution would be to get three separate
keys: one for the staging and tests, another for server-side requests
and a third one for client-side requests. That way, you are making
sure your API key is protected.
I'm currently writing an WebApi endpoint that is to accept image uploads with associated Descriptions and titles. I want to be able to send this information up in one post rather than sending the image and then the meta data in a subsequent call.
The client sending this is a mobile application written in Xamarin.
Searching the internet I struggled to fine any direction to doing this kind of thing although I'm sure it's possible.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.
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I would like to use Javascript to retrieve thumbnail URLs from Brightcove-hosted videos.
I can't see a way to do that without exposing my Media API token to the client browser. (The with-token method is documented here.)
I don't need a token to show the whole video, so it seems insane and unnecessary that I need a token to get the thumbnail url, which obviously I would want to show to the user anyway.
The only workaround I can devise is to create a middleman interface on the server. (The client JS makes a request to my server, which uses the token to request the thumbnail from BC, then returns it back to the JS.) That's just annoying.
Am I missing something? Is there an alternate way to retrieve video thumbnails in the client without exposing the Media API key?
According to Brightcove's support, they tell me that the answer is "NO".
They do recommend a server-side relay, which is what I ended up writing, and it works fine.
Disappointing, though.
I'd like to do a best of application list. It is just a list with a title and an image.
I saw the MarketplaceDetailTask(); who take the marketPlaceId (marketplaceDetailTask.ContentIdentifier).
My question is, is there a way, knowing this Id, to get the image url of the corresponding app ?
I've done some research but nothing about an API or something to return this url.
There is no built-in API in Windows Phone to retrieve this kind of information. However, you can try querying directly the service used by the Zune client. This service isn't publicly documented, but there's a few blog posts explaining how to use it. For instance:
http://brandonwatson.sys-con.com/node/1767886
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I wanted to develop a feature for a blog I wrote myself. I want to grab the search result of Google Images, and display them in a user-friendly way in or beside my blog's posts editor.
So I did some research on code.google.com
I found Google's official AJAX API for Google images. But on its documentation site it says something like this:
Important: The Google Image Search API
has been officially deprecated as of
May 26, 2011. It will continue to work
as per our deprecation policy, but the
number of requests you may make per
day may be limited
I know they can restrict the number of requests I can make by my API key.But..
Can anyone tell me how exactly is this API restricted? like how much traffic or requests is allowed?
Is it possible to use this API to develop a Wordpress plugin that everyone else can use?