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Wtf are APIs
Anyone care to dumb it down for a tech-idiot?
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Some things that allow programs to talk to each other. :1orglaugh
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awesome, thanks for your help :thumbsup
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If I have a site that offers an API, you could pull data (images, video, text) from my site, based on what I allow in the API, and you add it to your site. You could add it to your tours, your members area, whatever. And the content could be whatever I could create, members content, webcam, date profiles, or whatever you can dream up.
Though it is not an iframe, for the sake of truing to explain it to you, think of it as an advanced iframe. |
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So, I make eg a landing page/tour, and pull (for lack of knowing the correct term) your API and insert that into my join page I create, for example? |
The question is how are people supposed to make money using APIs ?..
I mean, I really don't see any difference between using or not using API's... Using API's won't make you convert better than not using them. Really wonder why people get so crazy about API's?... Really wondering, unless im missing some "SECRET" of the api.. I guess nobody will answer me, right? Piriod. |
so it's an expensive word for iframe :thumbsup
API : Advanced Porn Iframe |
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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? |
Example: You might find some dating sites have a API for the join page.. Using these you could build a single web interface that signs a user to multiple sites with the a single join page.
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How would a tech idiot such as myself incorporate API(s) into my sites/pages?
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Also edgeprod, looking at your API thread - I currently can't change an rss feed the way I want it to look, unless a sponsor has an API and not just a normal rss feed, correct? So at present, again going by your other thread, the lack of sponsor APIs = tons and tons and tons of dupe content, as opposed to just tons of dupe content with APIs, or would that pretty much be the same amount of dupe content if eg every sponsor started using them, just displayed in a different order?
eg pic text banner banner text pic ? Sorry for the dumb questions but like they say, you only know when you know :) |
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best explaination. this site is great also for apis http://www.programmableweb.com/ |
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See sig! |
Who knows ?
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A great example is all of the Twitter apps not published by Twitter. They use APIs to push and pull data to the Twitter servers.
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When a sponsor gives you RSS, you are stuck with what they provide. Not just the text, but the pictures, the RESOURCES available to you. With an API, *you* choose the resources. Let's say you're trying to win a contest for the best cherry pie. Do you want to use the store-brand cherry pie kit (RSS) or make it from scratch (API)? Which do you think surfers would prefer, and which would generate the most signups? And API works like: Ok, I want to pull the 3 most recent sets, and then these 7 specific sets, 5 pics per set, and post them to here, here, and here. RSS works like this: I want to pull X amount of sets to ... here. Using the options the SPONSOR gives me, not necessarily what I'd prefer. |
say you build up a ..... small analytics company for local people with websites. but you don't actually have the technology to do shit. You can use others data from their API's to display all in your frontend/backend. Of course your customers think that data is yours.
But your fucked if those other companies decide to restrict access or make changes to their API. |
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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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thanks all so far :thumbsup
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Want to build a fake dating site? Dating API. Want to have a redheads pop up on your redheads category of your tube? Dating API. Want to just show online users when they're actually online? Dating API. It's ... it's little pieces of data that you can put wherever you want for whatever purpose. It's up to you to figure out what to do with the data. From reading your posts in other threads, I'd say that APIs are beyond the scope of your abilities .... but if there are enough people like you, I'll build some tools that bring the power of APIs into you reach. |
I made a couple of tech demos so you can see what I'm talking about more easily:
http://www.gayheap.com http://blog.gayheap.com http://tube.gayheap.com I whipped each of these sites up in less than 30 minutes, including design, using the API. The first example pulls the most recent scene from 3 different sites, then displays a hosted video (if one exists). If not, it shows the "large" picture. It then pulls the scene title, the models in the scene, and the scene teaser text. It pulls the URL for the tour, and a couple of other images as well, and then slaps them up on a page. Easy-peasy, and it updates when the sites update. Surfers can scroll to older updates with the navigation at the bottom of the page. I didn't add any search because my goal was to finish each site in less than 30 minutes, as a proof of concept. The second example was a (CSS) re-skin of the original site, without the thumbnail row, and without the flash videos. More of a "blog" feel to it. It has the "full" descriptions for the sets, rather than the shorter ones used on the previous site. The third example is just a simple attempt at making a MGP masquerading as a simple tube. It just refers the surfer to the tour pages, but it serves as a proof-of-concept for handling video-type sites. Does this help to make more sense about APIs? The "components" (a picture, a description, a model's name) were all available to me, and I chose how to lay them out on the page. Compare and contrast that to what you get with RSS, or another format. If you want an example of a killer API, check out Pink Visual's implementation: http://api.pinkvisual.com/ |
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A smarter idea is to take their email, submit them to one sponsor, and if they're already part of that website you can cascade down and sign them up to a second sponsor, etc. You can do that with API. |
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Gotcha, my questions: 1. Is this not just another instance of mass dupe content, just laid out different, so in theory there will be thousands of pages the exact same if x amount of affiliates implemented it? 2. Seems I need to have some kind of programming skill, rather than just copy/paste snippets of code to arrange layout as I want? 3. PV example I need to sign up for a developers license to have a play with it, as such? |
ok so I'm at the PV site, select some parameters, and get a line of code spat out - absolutely no idea what to do with it (think telling someone who has never seen html in their life to put an image in image tags, to get an idea of my knowledge of this subject) - where's a good resource to learn how to implement the data in xyz scenario
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A "Dating API" is a way for YOU the affiliate to create and host your own landing page/join form. The form is submitted and sent, via API, to the dating site which bypasses their join form. The easiest way to start using a dating API is with Lead Wrench, which requires very little tech knowledge, if any.
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2. If you have programming knowledge, you'll avoid the pitfalls of #1. If not, you'll just be another people slapping shit together half-assed. A good compromise is to work with a programmer to utilize an API. Usually, it just needs to be set up once. 3. You sign up to use their API, yes. This allows them to keep tight control on how and where their content is being used. You can play a bit without their direct approval, but live usage with any sort of real functionality requires a full API key. Quote:
Anyone can USE an API .. doing something USEFUL with it is something entirely different. I notice you just got spammed by a dating API aggregator in this thread. Lead Wrench would actually be much more effective for you. It's a "Push API," meaning it takes YOUR data and PUTS it somewhere (in this case, it pushes it to dating sponsors who pay you for the input). A "Pull API" (what I am looking for in the other thread) is for getting data OUT, so that I can build sites. |
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The user signpus for my wordpress BLOG and at the same time he signups for the sponsor and I get paid for the free signup? I didn't know that was allowed by sponsors at all.. its some kind of BLACK-HAT... I guess there must be many of these tricks im not aware of, and thats the way people are doing money now, right? I always ask abotu CAMS+DATING secrets, and I guess here is a sample, right? |
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i think wtf bucks has a wtf api for making bucks. see sig
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Can't you see what people WRITE on here? EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT THAT, NOT ME!!! COME ON.. You can't be this NAIVE to dont see every fucker here talking about it here.. And BTW, thanks for UNDER-ESTIMATING ME, saying that I cant put an API online... From what I have seen, its not rocket science, anyone can do it. Do you think only you can learn some PHP or programing? Anyone can do it.. its just boring as hell, nothing else. I have done many harder things than that, that I DOUBT you are capable of doing... Just sayin, DUDE... now you will get offended right? I thought you were going to help, not to INSULT people.. FUCK. Or maybe you are just naturally aggressive.. Who knows. Sounds BAD, thats for SURE! |
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You should lay off this guy he's just trying to help and his message is true, whether directed to you or not. He's raising awareness don't be so sensitive |
lol I knew there was a good reason I had the piriod guy on ignore :1orglaugh
edgeprod - thanks, will have a closer look at API-ery and icq if/as/when :thumbsup oh, any good resources to read up on API-ery? |
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I still stand behind my statement about your technical skills. You're not new to me -- I've read many of your posts since you've gotten here, and I don't think you're beyond the level of a basic novice at anything in this industry. Just the questions you ask reveal this. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings, but it's my honest assessment, and I doubt it's untrue. To clarify, though: USING the API, and using it correctly (making money) are two different things. My doubt about you is the latter. If PHP is boring to you, then you lack imagination, which makes me believe that you'd have trouble monetizing anything broadly .. make a few bucks? Sure. Make decent money? No. We can hug it out if you'd like, but I'm not here to insult anyone. I don't sugar-coat things if I can help it, though. |
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PHP, XML, JSON .. those are the essential elements. To make it even simpler, try this: Take some index cards (or pieces of scrap paper) and write down elements of a page. For example: "Big Picture of Model" "Model's Name" "Small Thumbnail 1" "Small Thumbnail 4" "Scene Description" ... etc. Now, arrange them in interesting ways. Think about how you could take other pieces of data and enhance the user experience, or delete data and do the same. How does moving the smaller thumbs next to the bigger thumb affect the page? How does it affect the page to move them below the description instead? That's the power of the API, grasshopper. |
ass penetration interface :)
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interesting thread.
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If they're signing up for dating shit on your site, then APIs make it easier for you to submit them to your dating sponsor. If they're already a member of "program1" then you cascade down and submit them to "program2" instead. You don't just take every email address you can find and slam them onto 10 sponsors without their permission... |
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50 WTF is an API
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