Currently was playing around with a robotic process application called Blue Prism and learned you can drop a URL link to a WSDL location to consume api calls. I tested using a free service and it worked great.
My question is in regards to Google Sheets API, a project has come up where this would be very usefull however I'm not able to locate or if one even exists (A WSDL or WADL) for the google sheets api.
If anyone could give me any direction on this that would be fantastic.
Google docs can be automated using REST web services. You can find more information about google docs api at google sheets API page.
BluePrism has an out-of-box tools to work with SOAP request with WSDL, but unfortunately it does not have out-of-box support for REST web services.
If you'd like to use API to interact with google docs, then you can do that, but you'll have to create your own code stages to do that.
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I'm attempting to use Google Sheets as a back-end for an iOS app. The spreadsheets in question are private, so will require Oauth 2.0 for interactions.
So far I have come across three different ways to access spreadsheet data, but I'm not sure which one is the right one.
GData library
Google API Client
Google Apps Script
Has anyone here found success with any of these options, and if so how?
Rather than any of the options you've listed, you should be looking at the
Apps Script Execution API, which is a supported component of the Google Apps Script environment. It was introduced just over a month ago, in response to the growing demand for ubiquitous access to Google Apps.
As for the "how" - the Quick Start should get you started.
I'm still new to GAE, and I would like to have more wisdom about couple of things.
I searched in documentation, but I think I'm just too stupid to understand some things from documentation.
How can I combine Google Cloud SQL with endpoints? Is there such possibility?
How can I use endpoints to upload videos to google platform?
You should be able to use anything you can do on a non cloud endpoints api to cloud endpoints like google cloud sql. But since it's on preview you might encounter bugs/changes when it goes out of preview. You should create a Cloud SQL tests models on regular app engine app then try to use it on cloud endpoints, so you can minimize debugging for errors.
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/cloud-sql/
You will need to use a blobstore api:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/blobstore/
on your endpoints have a method that creates the upload url and use that to upload from your app then on the uploadHandler it will trigger once the whole file has been uploaded, process your blobInfo key store it appropriately.
I have seen many examples where a search task was launched from application but no examples where application could get some info back from that task.
For example, is it possible to get a list of found sites or URL that user have chosen in task (instead of navigating user to that URL)?
There is no built-in API in WP8 that would allow getting the results of a web search into your app. You should use a 3rd party framework for that.
Bing has an official Web API you can use for that but it starts costing money after 10,000 API calls per month. You can read more about it # https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/5BA839F1-12CE-4CCE-BF57-A49D98D29A44
Note that Bing did use to have a proper C# API with API keys and what not, but V2.0 of that API has been depercated in favour of the new Azure Data Marketplace service.
Google doesn't have an API for search results. But for the past few years developers have used Google's AJAX webservice to get those. See a C# code sample # http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/2165-how-to-search-google-and-bing-in-c/
I'm trying to create a redistributable web application that will integrate with Google Analytics through the Google Reporting API. Customer will install the application on their server.
I'm following this tutorial (I'm using PHP, but I believe this is not of importance for my question)
https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/tutorials/hello-analytics-api
This works fine. No issues there.
However I can't figure out one missing element:
The tutorial starts with sending me to the Google APIs console where I have to create and configure a new API project and create and configure a client ID.
That's a lot of work that requires fairly technical knowledge (redirect url, selecting correct API, error-prone copy-and-pasting, etc.)
So my questions:
Is there an API so I can programmatically set this up for my user?
If that's not possible, is there a more user-friendly way to obtain Analytics reporting that is future-proof? (I noticed they are currently deprecating a few older APIs)
Unfortunately that's AFAIK not possible.
You could go one of the following ways:
Move client_id and client_secret to some configuration file and help your customer with deployment.
Show a one-time setup wizard for your app and guide your customer step-by-step. There you can at least provide him with the right callback URLs.
Regard your application as "installed application" and instrument curl or something similar for sending the requests.
I would like to know if someone has got documentation about the Google Maps API, I'm only looking for the traffic live information I would like to implement it on my iOS application.
Does such an API exist?
I don't think Google offers a standlone traffic API as of now. However there are a couple options.
Render the Google Maps element in a WebView and use the Google JavaScript API to enable the traffic layer. The downside of this approach is that the UX likely wont be as nice as native programming. The upside is less coding.
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/reference.html#TrafficLayer
Call another traffic provider's REST API and overlay on top of the native iOS map component. This overlay is pretty straightforward through code if you get a KML response. The two I know of are MapQuest (yes, they are still around!) and Yahoo (though their API is in transition now).
http://www.mapquestapi.com/traffic/
http://developer.yahoo.com/traffic/rest/V1/index.html