Exploring Other Web APIs

Abstract

In Chapter 6, you examined the Flickr API in great detail, so I’ll turn now to other web APIs. Studying the Flickr API in depth is obviously useful if you plan to use it in your mashups, but I argue here that it’s useful in your study of other APIs because you can draw from your understanding of the Flickr API as a point of comparison. (I’ll cover the subject of HTTP web APIs bound to a JavaScript context in the next chapter. You’ll take what you learn in Chapter 6 and this chapter and study the specific context of working within the modern web browser using JavaScript.)