2 way XML update between Booking.com and Google Calendar - google-schemas

Hi my name is David and I'm looking for a wizz answer on this one ;-)
A 2 way XML update between Booking.com and Google Calendar is it possible ?
And I don't mean the affiliate or something Booking.com I mean the Extranet.
So is channel management possible between Booking.com / Hotels.de and Google Calendar.
Thus being said that on http://googlesystem.blogspot.nl/2013/08/sites-that-integrate-with-google-now.html :
There's a long list of sites that integrate with Google Now: Air Berlin, Air Canada, Emirates, Booking.com, Lastminute.com, TicketWeb, Ticketfly, Orbitz, CheapTickets, OpenTable, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Zillow and more.
This would be a great step for small business like mine..
Thanks in advance....
D.Corper

Here I have built a calendar based on the booking data that cam out from MySQL database
http://www.jardim-dos-aloes.com/en/rooms.php?currencyid=3
It can be modified to read from an XML file.

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Is there an API to get Indian pincodes?

I'm building an application in which I need get pincodes (India) of the users and get the city and the state details. I have not found an effective way to do this other than scrape the internet for pincodes which is quite cumbersome and time consuming.
Is there any API available for this purpose?
P.S. I'm new to stackoverflow.
You can use Indian Pincodes API. I built this for one of our projects. It's simple and you do not need any authentication.
https://www.indianpincodes.co.in/

Yahoo Finance API changes (2017)

Requesting data from Yahoo Finance seems to have changed or is now blocked. The request below for commodity data no longer works as of May 2017. Does anyone know if there is a new way to make this request?
http://chartapi.finance.yahoo.com/instrument/1.0/GCQ17.CMX/chartdata;type=quote;range=10d/csv/
First, the old Yahoo finance iChart download is gone for good. In one of the forum posts, a Yahoo employee has confirmed that the free EOD data has been terminated, and will not be reintroduced. Check out this thread and look for reply from Nixon. Yahoo is recently acquired by Verizon, and it must be the new direction.
However, if you check the Yahoo financial page, the CSV download link works, though differently now. It is through a new API that uses an authentication token "crumb" that is linked to a cookie when you access the page.
So there is a work-around to get the same CSV download as before through this new API. I have put together some quick Python3 code. Please check out GitHub for source code yahoo_quote_download.
As Ashley Davis mentioned in the comments section of the question above, the new way to go is through Alpha Vantage, at least when one is looking for free historical data. Their web service is very well documented and straight forward.
For those of you who are looking to import the data into Excel, I have written an api that I make available for free. Here is the Excel spreadsheet
Addendum as of Aug 2018: Current version of Deriscope supports retrieval of both historical data and live feeds from YF.
For Australian investors, here is an alternative to yahoo finance api:
www.biglion.com.au

Twitter Search API for around 3 month data

I am working since last 3 days to find solution about how we can get old data from twitter api around 3 month over limitation of twitter api about 1 week. can some one help me to know best solution.
You cannot get any tweet for the last 3 months apart if you store them in your own database.
The only solution for you would be to pay Twitter GNIP to access historical data.
The Twitter API only provides the most recent tweets for a given search, up to ~3200.
The so-called "firehose" and some datasets are available mostly for research or developer purposes.
There are some services which sell custom datasets, including Twitter itself (which purchased Gnip). The overview by Justin Littman at GWU is rather comprehensive.

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I have a video blog for which I would like to track certain statistics, including stats from Google Analytics, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
The problem is that the various stats are on different websites, which require different logins, etc. It takes a long time to actually view everything. I am looking for a way to be able to aggregate all of this information in one place.
I have searched quite a bit on Google, Mashable, Delicious, etc and I haven't found any websites that do what I want. Are my searching skills bad, or does this really not exist?
The data in which I am interested appears to be available in readily parsable forms (see below), but I am hesitant to write an app to do this myself, because of an already more than full workload.
Data I want to aggregate:
Google Analytics -- tracking on my website
number of visitors
traffic sources
use Data Export API -- http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataDeveloperGuide.html
Twitter
number of followers
number of retweets
new # messages
new direct messages
Twitter API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Facebook fan page
number of fans
new posts on wall
Facebook API -- (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
Tumblr
number of followers
Video
number of views
view location
number of comments
number of channel subscribers
do this for
YouTube -- CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
MetaCritic
Feed burner (RSS)
number of subscribers
CSV report available at (sorry, I can only post one hyperlink because I am new)
SEO stuff
Google PageRank
Alexa rankings
So is there an app that does this already, or should I do this myself? I would like a quick and dirty way to do this -- I was thinking something like Yahoo pipes, but it appears to not be up to the task. I could probably get it done in Grails, but that might be more trouble than it's worth. Other ideas?
I have a better answer. YQL has community data tables for all the services you listed. You can pull in all the different values through their API.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/
You could try creating a Google Spreadsheet and use their external data import tools.
http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75507
The biggest problem will probably be access authenticated APIs.
Presumably that all of the services above has fashioned a statistics API, I would advice you to write it yourself rather than battling an integration war with a bunch of aggregating programs.
Here's an iphone app that does at least a bit of this:
http://ego-app.com/
I don't know a single tool that can do this, off the top of my head. But you can chain a few tools together to do this.
1- If you're on Windows, use Website Watcher. It has a macro-recording tool to login a webpage, a regex-based tool to filter content and a scripting language that let you email/export the result. IMO, this will let you extract data from just any web page/RSS/forums.
2- Then use Dropbox to automatically upload the result files to your Dropbox's public folder (because you will need the public link to these file).
3- Use Yahoo Pipes to consolidate/aggregate the result files.
I suggest you try Metricly http://metricly.com/ that is natively intergating Facebook & Google Analytics data. It is extensible by nature and with a little bit of tweaking you can push any meric to it. I enjoy it.
I originally suggested this as an edit to abraham's answer but it was rejected:
Mikael Thuneberg has written a freely available google script for pulling GA data into Google Docs using the GA API: http://www.automateanalytics.com/2010/04/google-analytics-data-to-google-docs.html
I use it for creating client dashboards all the time. I suspect there may be others for pulling in twitter/facebook data etc.
And Google have just released this tool for importing GA data into Google Docs:
http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/automate-google-analytics-reporting.html
Also see SEOTools for Excel which can pull some facebook and twitter data as well as Google Analytics through the API.
YouTube has a public API http://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics to retrieve reports for your videos and channels.

ASP.NET Tracking Code & Unique Visitors

I am trying to find a way to track and produce reports for my site (out of interest). Does anyone know of any articles/projects etc that you can
Track pages / unique visitors etc
Tracking 1) relative to timestamp etc
in asp.net mvc or just asp.net ?
P.S - I know google analytics etc is available but looking to create some basic stats for myself out of interest about how web analytics work ?
There are a couple of good ways to try and determine unique visitors, none of them are exact (which is why different analytics will report different numbers).
The first is to use a cookie. Create a cookie for the user for each time frame that you want to track uniques, so you could create one that expires in a day and one that expires in a month. You can then use both of those to track how many unique daily/monthly visitors you have. Of course this is not perfect since people can clear or refuse cookies, but it is pretty accurate.
The other way is to track uniques using a combination of the IP address and User Agent of the requesting user, this is probably slightly less accurate since if a company has a good IT group lots of internal users will have the same User Agent and since they are all coming from the same internal network could have the same IP address.
If you are interested in reading more about the different methods there is a great article about it here: http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28325
I blogged about simple asp.net module.
You can check it here
http://ilkeraksu.com/post/2009/07/14/Very-very-simple-But-very-very-efficient-Aspnet-Tracking-module.aspx
I would recommend using google analytics instead of reinventing the wheel. All you have to do is stick a bit of javascript in your master page and your done.
Yo can check Piwik out. Its an open source web analytics written using PHP and mysql.
you can find great article in http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/PageTracking.aspx
which is upgraded version of http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/021119.htm
with help of a Session Tracker class that runs in Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute and mailing reports on session end and lot of usefull tips
thanks Wayne Plourde for all that stuff

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