Archive for the 'Web APIs' Category

Google Releases Adwords API

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Google has released an API interface for their Adwords program, using Soap 1.1. It looks like it provides access to all the features of the existing user interface, but no api access to the keyword sandbox.
They implemented transaction quotas based on dollars spent by Adwords accounts registered under your developer id. If you use […]

Peek Inside Amazon DevCon

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

There’s some cool stuff over at Amazon Web Services Blog. Amazon is blogging their Developer’s Conference as it happens with a live forum where you can post questions to speakers.

Unencoded Amazon Web Service data makes XSLT abort

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

I’ll only admit to being slightly masochistic.
When I set out to create my new bookstore, Magic Amazon Beans, I focused on using XSLT to process the XML replies from Amazon. They have an option to send the results of an XSL transform as a reply instead of their normal XML file. You simply […]

My New Bookstore

Friday, December 10th, 2004

Magic Amazon Beans v0.2

I added an Amazon book store to Magic Bean Dip today. It’s still rudimentary, but it works. I wrote my own software and used the new ECS 4.0 data interface supplied by Amazon, with PHP and the Pear libraries to process the data.
This is my abbreviated to do list:

Retry failed […]