RESTful Java Web Services - Third Edition

RESTful API role in social media

Many of the social networks provides RESTful APIs to expose their capabilities. Let us look at the RESTful APIs of popular social media services:

Social media services	RESTFul API	Reference
YouTube	Add YouTube features to your application, including the ability to upload videos, create and manage playlists, and more.	https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/
Facebook	The Graph API is the primary way to get data out of, and put data into, Facebook's platform. It's a low-level HTTP-based API that you can use to programmatically query data, post new stories, manage ads, upload photos, and perform a variety of other tasks that an app might implement.	https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview ...