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Jennifer Konikowski
October 08, 2013
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APIs: What are they, why you should care, and how you can use them
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APIs: What are they, why you should care, and how
you can use them. Tuesday, October 8, 13
What is an API? Application Programming Interface definition: “a set
of programming instructions and standards for accessing a web-based application” Tuesday, October 8, 13
The Echo Nest Local, located in Davis Square “The Echo
Nest powers all of today's best music experiences by automatically knowing everything about music.” Created a Python client for their API, pyechonest $ pip install pyechonest Tuesday, October 8, 13
Tuesday, October 8, 13
Results Tuesday, October 8, 13
Pyechonest Tuesday, October 8, 13
Results Tuesday, October 8, 13
Twitter Microblogging service. It is pretty big. https://github.com/bear/python-twitter $ pip
install python-twitter Tuesday, October 8, 13
Twitter using python-twitter Tuesday, October 8, 13
Results Tuesday, October 8, 13
Other methods PostUpdates(self, status, continuation=None, **kwargs) GetFriends(self, user_id=None, screen_name=None, cursor=-1,
skip_status=False, include_user_entities=False) CreateFriendship(self, user_id=None, screen_name=None, follow=True) GetRetweetsOfMe(self, count=None, since_id=None, max_id=None, trim_user=False, include_entities=True, include_user_entities=True) DestroyStatus(self, count=None, since_id=None, max_id=None, trim_user=False, include_entities=True, include_user_entities=True)) Tuesday, October 8, 13