CHAPTER 10
APIs, RSS, and XML
One of the most interesting recent developments on the Web is the trend of providing Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to web sites, with which you can integrate content from other sites into your own. Generally such APIs accept standard
POST
or GET
requests as might be sent from an HTML form or hyperlink, and then return data in the form of XML (Extensible Markup Language), JSON (JavaScript Object Notation), or other easy-to-process formats.For example, both Google and Yahoo! provide a range of APIs for many of their web properties, such as Google Book Search and Charts, or Yahoo! Search, Answers, and Stocks, ...
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