Thread: Wtf are APIs
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Old 08-18-2012, 01:37 AM  
VenusBlogger
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Originally Posted by edgeprod View Post
It's pretty simple, actually: APIs allow you to automate tasks in a predictable fashion. If you can build it by hand, you can build 1,000 of them in a few minutes with an API.

So, let's take a blog and a tube, for example. If a sponsor has an API, I can suck down all of their content they way *I* want it (not how their RSS feed makes me have it), and display it the way *I* want it.

Not wanting to have that flexibility, power, and availability shows a poor understanding of online marketing, or is just plain laziness.

Does that make better sense?
Thanks for the explanation.

Yes I have many WordPress BLOGS.. So I go to a sponsor, grab and API and then import?

Is it that simple?


And why people talk about DATING APIs all the time? I can understand importing galleries into a BLOG.. but DATING APIs?.. no galleries at all.. DATING is DATING, not galleries.. I dont get it, why people talk about forms and dating APIs all the time, like its something MAGIC and SECRET or kind of blackhat to make money.. any ideas?

Thanks.

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