Some questions that Iâll discuss include the following: Is the API available with a REST interface? Does it use SOAP or XML-ÂRPC? This scheme wonât magically enable you to instantly understand all the various APIs out there.) The categories I use are as follows: (Iâm presenting some heuristics for thinking about the subject rather than a watertight formula. How do you generalize from what you know about the Flickr API to other web APIs? I will use three major axes/categories for organizing my presentation of web APIs. Youâll take what you learn in Chapter 6 and this chapter and study the specific context of working within the modern web browser using JavaScript.) (Iâll cover the subject of HTTP web APIs bound to a JavaScript context in the next chapter. Studying the Flickr API in depth is obviously useful if you plan to use it in your mashups, but I argue here that itâs useful in your study of other APIs because you can draw from your understanding of the Flickr API as a point of comparison. In Chapter 6, you examined the Flickr API in great detail, so Iâll turn now to other web APIs. Table of Contents XML-RPC Whatâs Happening on the Wire? Using Wireshark and curl to Analyze and Formulate HTTP Messages Parsing XML-ÂRPC Traffic SOAP The Dream: Plug-Âand-Go Functionality Through WSDL and SOAP Amazon ECS The Flickr API via SOAP Learning About Specific Web APIs YouTube GData and the Blogger API Using the Blogger API As a Uniform Interface Based on HTTP Methods Summary
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