Python Weather API

Since Google has shut down its weather API, I suggest to check out OpenWeatherMap: The OpenWeatherMap service provides free weather data and forecast API suitable for any cartographic services like web and smartphones applications. Ideology is inspired by OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia that make information free and available for everybody. OpenWeatherMap provides wide range of weather data … Read more

Youtube api – stop video

You can’t control it if you embed it with an iframe. You have to use object embedding, like this: The rest of your code should generally work after that, although it may need to be updated to say: Also, have you seen the demo site? http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/youtube_player_demo.html

Best C# API to create PDF

Update: I’m not sure when or if the license changed for the iText# library, but it is licensed under AGPL which means it must be licensed if included with a closed-source product. The question does not (currently) require free or open-source libraries. One should always investigate the license type of any library used in a project. I have … Read more

Constructing requests with URL Query String in Python

I’m not really sure what I’m doing. Should I be using a library for this? Or do it manually? So I’m trying to do some work with the WiThings (http://www.withings.com/api) API in Python. In order to perform some of the requests, OAuth authentication is required. I have gone through using the requests library and obtained … Read more

What is a callback URL in relation to an API?

I’ve been scouring the net, and can’t seem to wrap my head around the idea of a callback URL. In my case I have a few callback URLs that I have to define myself. A popular one is a “default callback URL”. What is this exactly? Can you give an example in plain english?

Yahoo Finance All Currencies quote API Documentation

From the research that I’ve done, there doesn’t appear to be any documentation available for the API you’re using. Depending on the data you’re trying to get, I’d recommend using Yahoo’s YQL API for accessing Yahoo Finance (An example can be found here). Alternatively, you could try using this well documented way to get CSV data from … Read more