The full name of API is application programming interface, which is application programming interface. Programmers can write applications and widgets to interact with the page server. API provides a web-based data and function access interface. For example, using the GoogleMaps API, you can export data and map information from Google. Moreover, using APIs no longer requires much professional programming. Many APIs are accompanied by example demonstration documents to tell users how to use them.
1. YouTube API
is simple to operate. You can export video lists, rankings, tags, urls from YouTube...
2. Flickr API
Flickr API provides two ways to access URLs. It can be achieved: create a new set, edit comments, export data...
3. Google Maps
Needless to say
4. Delicious API
The Delicious API is not as complex and powerful as other APIs, but it is simple, and you can enter the URL in the browser You can see the results, and you can also add bookmarks, rename tags, etc.
5. Digg API
Use Digg API to access personal stories, comments or public data.
6. Google Ajax Feed API
can download JavaScript-based Atom or RSS feeds to easily aggregate your content very quickly.
7. Windows Live API
provides numerous APIs for different Microsoft services.
8. Yahoo Search API is
even more popular than Google Search API. You can create a simple spell checker or site search widget.
9. Google Search API
Google Search API is an AJAX Search API. Google Search can be added to the page by using JavaScript, and Google provides a lot of example codes.
10. Feedburner API
Feedburner is an RSS feed creation tool. Its API brings many interesting experiences to developers, especially the Feedflare API,
which can add new features to Feedburner feeds.
11. Facebook API
Facebook is a very famous and successful social networking site. It has many examples, application creation wizards and libraries that users can use themselves. Since Facebook generates entirely user-generated content, the Facebook API is a prime resource.
12. Ebay API
Ebay's API is very comprehensive and supports almost all mainstream web scripts, including flash and Ajax.
13. Audio Scrobbler API
Last FM uses the Audio Scrobbler API to obtain the music information you listen to. It is also a plug-in for many "what to listen to now" applications.
14. Upcoming
uses the Upcoming API to obtain data from Yahoo's website upcoming.org. It is very useful in getting instant event information.
15. MediaWiki API
Wikipedia provides more than 2 million resources, and the Mediawiki API allows access to more of these contents. Sites based on the Mediawiki API include: Wikitravel, Wiktionary, and WikiNews.