Chapter 13. Web Services
I’m not addicted to Twitter. I only tweet when I have time: lunch time, break time, off time, this time, that time, any time, all the time.
—(unknown), earlier than May 2010
In this chapter...
• The Yahoo! Finance Stock Quote Server
In this chapter, we give brief introductions on how to use a couple of Web services available today; an “old” service, Yahoo’s stock quote server, and a new one, Twitter.
13.1. Introduction
There are many Web services and applications on the Internet, providing a wide variety of services. You will find application programming interfaces (APIs) from most of the big players, such as Yahoo!, Google, Twitter, and Amazon, to name just a few. In the past, ...
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