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In google, some searches might bring up some data found by google (For instance, searching "bitcoin price" brings up data on pricing in a little box at the top, as does searching "2 plus 2". Is there a Google API that will fetch just the data pulled up in the box (as in, If this API was given the keyword "Bitcoin", it would return the price but not the links to websites below). Is there such a "data box" API that will work with the Swift Programming Language (It is for an iOS app)?
I couldn't find any previous questions like this, but there may be some, as I don't know the proper terminology (If anyone happens to know the official name of what I called "data boxes", do tell! Also, I apologize for use of the API tag, I just don't know the name of the API I am looking for.
The official name is "OneBox".
The underlying APIs are unavailable and brokered by Google and private data providers. Your best bet is to find the data sources directly and use their API; which will probably involve an exchange of money or other formal agreement.
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Is there any API that I can use to rank search terms according to their popularity? An official Google API was announced to be released, however there isn't any. Any suggestions on what I may use alternatively?
There are some open source API's available to Google trends.
In node: https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-trends-api
In Python:
https://github.com/GeneralMills/pytrends
In Java:
https://github.com/elibus/j-google-trends-api
Java client side: https://github.com/elibus/j-google-trends-client
For Golang groovili/gogtrends can be useful. It's an unofficial API wrapper which works with Google Trends. Gives the ability to get trending searches and compare search items popularity over time and by region.
There is a php api for google trends that I've been using for almost two years without problems: http://codingfocus.com/google-trends-api
It allows to get graph, region and related queries data.
You might check out the SimilarWeb API which provides the proportion of search traffic to a given domain over time. This metric is quite similar to what Google Trends provides.
https://developer.similarweb.com/traffic_intelligence
Full disclosure, I work at SimilarWeb.
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What I am looking to do is retrieving city statistics. Much like the CIA World Factbook. But, I want an API, database or dataset that I can query and get results. Also, I would actually PREFER to use a UIWebView and load a website with those statistics already searched and displayed. Like TheWeatherChannel for instance, I can form a URL with given coordinates. But websites like the CIA World Factbook have a unique two letter code for each country, which are not in a particular format.
Also, I would like to get CITY statistics, this would include:
Population
Crime Rate
Description
Languages Spoken
Transport Systems
Geography
and more! I even had an idea to show the type of plugs that country uses. But, I have no idea how and where to look for information like this.
Please help me out...
You're asking for very generic data sets and APIs, so you may want to being exploring http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data, https://explore.data.gov/, and http://www.freebase.com/
A little late and it probably doesn't do city level but
http://data.worldbank.org/developers/data-catalog-api
could also be useful for someone looking for similar stuff and it wasn't mentioned (AFAICS) in the above answer's links.
This data also has a drupal module at
https://drupal.org/project/wbapi
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I'm working on an iOS application where I'd like to be able to display stores with their respective logos. I've spent a while looking for an API that does this and I can't find anything besides XigniteLogos. Unfortunately this is outside of my budget - is there a free solution available?
This is a very interesting question.
My first thought was that you could try doing a Google Image search. I know Google has a service called Goggles which can recognize logos, so searching the other way must be possible using Google.
I did a sample search on Google Images for "General Mills logo" (I guess I am hungry for breakfast right now) and the first result that was returned was from SeekLogo.com
I am not sure what SeekLogo is, or if they have an API, but they may be exactly what you're looking for. If not, you could try a Google images search and use the first result... (Google does have an image search AIP but... it's been deprecated? The announcement of that says that the documentation / community may have solutions which are still supported...)
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Like many developers, I'm pretty confused on why Google deprecated so many of its APIs (Images, Translate etc). Does anyone know of a good alternative image API that is somewhat accurate? Flickr seems pretty inaccurate in my testing : /
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It really depends what you're looking for. The major alternatives out there are Yahoo's Boss API, Bing's Image Search API, and Flickr's API which you mentioned.
Bing and Yahoo both have larger amounts of images than Flickr.
Flickr is more lenient in terms of what you can actually do with the images however. Both Bing and Yahoo limit what you can do. For example, Bing doesn't allow you to reorder your search results and Yahoo has a hard-limit on the number of requests you can make. Flickr allows you to do basically anything as long as you don't spam requests or abuse their user's rights to the images.
Bing also tends to have the more detailed search engine, as you can search for different colors, and categories than Yahoo or Flickr.
In the end, I'd advise reading over their respective Terms of Services(Flickr, Bing, Yahoo), and using the one that fits what project you have in mind.
I hope this helps, and good luck!
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I once found a slick looking car make/model dropdown menu web service that advertised form helpers for Ruby on Rails, have subsequently been unable to find this again by Googling for it.... Anybody know the service I am talking about?
Edmunds provides this data for free through an API. You just have to sign-up to get an API key.
See documentation here:
http://developer.edmunds.com/api-documentation/vehicle/
Sign-up to get a key here: http://developer.edmunds.com/index.html
One example of making the call (many more examples given on their site):
https://api.edmunds.com/api/vehicle/v2/makes?fmt=json&api_key={your API key}
I was looking for exactly this kind of information for motorcycles. From what I can tell the API does not provide motorcycle data, but it seems to have just about everything for cars - Make, Model, Year, Trim, Style, even Maintenance Schedules.
With the json or xml data, you will have to roll your own drop down menus. Edmunds does provide some premade widgets, but they are pretty specific (e.g. return True Market Value), so there is a good chance they won't have exactly what you need.
http://developer.edmunds.com/widgets_and_apps/index.html
It doesn't include form helpers or anything, but here's a Ruby implementation that uses the KBB database to retrieve make/model info:
http://tektastic.com/2008/03/car-or-auto-make-model-year-database.html
I'd probably cron this outside of the app and update the db from time to time, then use collection_select in the app to construct the dropdowns as normal. You could also adapt it to use ActiveResource for live retrieval, but that seems excessive and perhaps bannable by KBB.