I am developing an education-related app and I am planning on integrating the Google Classroom API to import information about the student's classes and assignments. I already have Google Sign-In working, but I do not know where to go now. I cannot find any documentation regarding using the Classroom API with Swift. If anyone can give me some pointers on how to set this up, it would be much appreciated!
It doesn't look like there is a library to use Classroom in swift. You are going to have to write your own code to hit the API and consume the JSON. I would use something like alamofire to make the network requests for the JSON. Then use codables to parse the JSON. The google documentation is going to be your friend to learn how to hit the API. If you don't know what an API is this youtube video should give a nice overview. If it still doesn't make sense, keep researching REST API's.
Best of Luck!
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I am currently working on a personal project to develop a REST API which would perform tasks similar to what UBER, OLA like taxi aggregators do. Below is the brief about the functionality that I plan to add:
1)I have a fleet of cabs whose location is determined by its latitude and longitude.
2)A customer can call one of the cabs by providing their location and my API should assign the nearest cab available.
This I suppose would be accomplished by using Google Map APIs. My question is how do i start on using these APIs, to simulate such functionality?
You may use the following references:
Choose from the Google Maps APIs documentations depending on your needs. There are actually tutorials given within the documentations.
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions will also help especially the getting started part to fully understand how Google Maps APIs work.
Last but definitely not the least, this example in GitHub might help you exactly on the implementation.
I want to build an simple gmail chat bot.
The bot reads the chat messsage of the recipient and responds it..
I have developed the logic for response to the message
but now im stuck with the bot configuration.
How to setup a gmail bot which can receive the message from chat window and give the message to me . and reply my message back to the person in chat ?
note: this question may seem duplicate but i have tried every solution to previous question i am unable to find a complete solution from scratch anywhere.
Hope any when can help me here.
You need to use the Google Talk API. More information can be found here. I have never used it before, but from what I read, you need to have to write your logic in a compatible language to interface with the API and build up from there. Very standard Google API docs, help, etc in the link.
If you know Python there is a library built for this purpose, bot allow developers to quickly and easily deploy bots. I highly recommend you use that. If you don't know Python, there is anoter guide here that explains how to do it with very minimal PHP/Perl code. If you don't know PHP or Perl, there is another resource here that explains how to do it in Node.js. IF you don't know Javascript, here is how to do it in Java.
I don't like publishing links to guides, but the API document should have been enough. These were all found with the Google search term "make a google talk bot".
I was wondering if anyone know how i could access facebook API from within R.. I would like, to access the text in my wall post, and do very basic analysis. The problem is that, aside from the fact that my knowledge of text mining is very basic, my knowledge of how to use web-api (if that is even a correct concept), is non-existing.
Assuming that i have an api-key, can someone provide me with a very basic example/code to demonstrate how i could make the connection from R to facebook, and download some data? I imagine i will need one or more R packages, such as: Rcurl, Rjson...
My main focus right now is to learn/improve my text mining skills in R, and so i don't want to get lost into/distracted by basic programing to access facebook api.
Finally, i read in the comment on a related question
Update Facebook status using R?
that
"...it's not like you can pull large amounts of data from Facebook to do data analysis...".
Can anyone elaborate on that?
Thanx
you can use Rfacebook package from following link to access Facebook API http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rfacebook/Rfacebook.pdf. Further to this, you can use advance text mining packages within R for text mining on the feed.
A more comprehensive help is here http://pablobarbera.com/blog/archives/3.html
An example on how to use it is here
http://thinktostart.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/analyzing-facebook-with-r/
Why even worry about using the API at all? You can use a feature in Facebook to download all your data and it comes as a zipped file with HTML as the main data store. From there, you can grep and mine to your hearts content and you will be able to learn much more about R than jumping in headfirst with APIs.
With the Facebook Graph API, you can get Facebook data for text mining.
You cannot search for posts using the Facebook search bar
But the Graph API supports searching for the following types of objects:
All public posts: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=watermelon&type=post
People: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=mark&type=user
Pages: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=platform&type=page
Events: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=conference&type=event
Groups: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=programming&type=group
Places: https://graph.facebook.com/search?q=coffee&type=place
Checkins: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=checkin
Objects with location
I would highly recommend JavaScript, PHP or other languages mentioned in this document for getting the data and then using R for text mining since R has great tools for text mining
If you still prefer to go with R for the mining, you can connect to Facebook using RCurl and rjson and get the pages using getURL() command and write a small parser to parse the data using simple Regex.
Source: Did the same thing during an internship
if you want easy access, you can also consider using twitter. the twitteR packages provides easy access to public accounts! plus there are some hands-on text mining applications for twitter online, see for example: http://jeffreybreen.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/twitter-text-mining-r-slides/
I'd like to build in some weather functionality into my app and I'm going to be using the NOAA weather web service to retrieve the weather information. The NOAA website has a great deal of information on how the data should be requested and how the resulting data is structured. I'm new to iOS development, so I just need a little direction because I'm not sure which APIs I should be using to request and process this data. My questions are...
What's the proper way to request access to the user's location?
If the user allows access to their location, which APIs would I use to access it?
To make an HTTP request to the RESTful webservice, which APIs should I use?
To process/parse the resulting XML data, which API's should I use?
And if anyone can suggest any good examples online that demonstrate any of this functionality, that would also be helpful.
Thanks so much so much in advance for your wisdom!
For location data, look into CoreLocation
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/CoreLocation/Reference/CoreLocation_Framework/index.html
For HTTP requests I like to use the ASIHTTPRequest class
http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/
TouchXML makes it easy to work with XML data
http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/wiki/TouchXML
Just today, Luke Redpath posted a complete iPhone REST client he wrote. I can't vouch for it, I only saw today that it even exists. But Luke does good work, so I assume it's pretty decent.
See here:
http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/some-code-that-i-wrote.html
There seems to be no available documentation for the Objective-C client for the Google Data API. Google's API help webpage only has options for .NET, Java, Python, and the HTTP Protocol. I want to access data from a spreadsheet on my Google Docs account, and then add new data.
I have added the correct source codes to my project as outlined in the GData Wiki, and am now completely lost. There are a ton of classes to sort through for Spreadsheets, and there are very few comments and I can't really tell by method names what does what.
If possible, can someone post a couple snippets of code to first access the available documents, then pick one of the choices, and then add information to a cell (like A1)?
Thank you in advance for your consideration!
Did you look at the spreadsheet sample?
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/wiki/GDataObjCIntroduction
A year or so later, a page for just this: Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library
Generally, to create a new entry, you'll use an http POST to the feed's postLink. The Obj-C library service class provides POST operations as the method fetchEntryByInsertingEntry:
I believe creating a new spreadsheet still requires uploading a new document, as mentioned in the docs. You could create a simple CSV text file and upload that as a spreadsheet.
Note that there is a discussion group for users of the library.