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Google Introduces API Console

39 points by kingsidharth 16y ago

zbanks 16y ago
Very awesome. The prediction API looks really cool, which could hopefully make its way into a mashup. The feed push API seems genuinely useful, although it'd be nice to see a demo of its power/flexibility. I wonder how much Buzz data we can get our hands on, and how easily?
sushi 16y ago
Link: https://code.google.com/apis/console/ https://code.google.com/apis/console/
js4all 16y ago
This is only a subset of Google APIs. I am looking for the maps API. I hope they add more APIs later. It seems to be a great way to monitor and control API usage.
- chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
  Well, unless you're an enterprise user, a key is not necessary to use the Maps API. If you're referring specifically to the v2 JS API, it's deprecated, so I don't see much value in us adding it to the console.
tav 16y ago
Listing the APIs before having to sign up would have been useful though. Here's the current set: * Buzz * Custom Search * Diacritize * Feed * Latitude * Moderator * Prediction * Translate It's nice to have a dashboard, but I'd have preferred support for the traditionally painful (quota-wise) APIs like Google Maps Geocoding and YouTube Uploads. Just knowing that you are about 5 months away from needing a Google Maps API Premier account can be quite useful.
ez77 16y ago
Official announcement: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-apis-console-and-our.html http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-ap...
hassy 16y ago
I thought it would be an interactive console, like http://tryruby.org http://tryruby.org. Imagine being able to play with an API like that, with nothing to sign-up for or download and set-up.
BweezySearch 16y ago
I think the biggest news here (which I think Google tried to hide under all the announcements of "new" stuff) is that the web search ajax api was deprecated. There is no no official way to search the entire web with a Google api. I imagine this will be painful to many many sites and applications out there.
gallerytungsten 16y ago
That's a name that might cause some confusion. When I see the word "API console" I think of this: http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html

39 points by kingsidharth 16y ago

Very awesome. The prediction API looks really cool, which could hopefully make its way into a mashup. The feed push API seems genuinely useful, although it'd be nice to see a demo of its power/flexibility. I wonder how much Buzz data we can get our hands on, and how easily?

sushi 16y ago

Link: https://code.google.com/apis/console/ https://code.google.com/apis/console/

js4all 16y ago

This is only a subset of Google APIs. I am looking for the maps API. I hope they add more APIs later. It seems to be a great way to monitor and control API usage.

chrisbroadfoot 16y ago
Well, unless you're an enterprise user, a key is not necessary to use the Maps API. If you're referring specifically to the v2 JS API, it's deprecated, so I don't see much value in us adding it to the console.

tav 16y ago

Listing the APIs before having to sign up would have been useful though. Here's the current set: * Buzz * Custom Search * Diacritize * Feed * Latitude * Moderator * Prediction * Translate It's nice to have a dashboard, but I'd have preferred support for the traditionally painful (quota-wise) APIs like Google Maps Geocoding and YouTube Uploads. Just knowing that you are about 5 months away from needing a Google Maps API Premier account can be quite useful.

ez77 16y ago

Official announcement: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-apis-console-and-our.html http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-ap...

hassy 16y ago

I thought it would be an interactive console, like http://tryruby.org http://tryruby.org. Imagine being able to play with an API like that, with nothing to sign-up for or download and set-up.

BweezySearch 16y ago

I think the biggest news here (which I think Google tried to hide under all the announcements of "new" stuff) is that the web search ajax api was deprecated. There is no no official way to search the entire web with a Google api. I imagine this will be painful to many many sites and applications out there.

gallerytungsten 16y ago

That's a name that might cause some confusion. When I see the word "API console" I think of this: http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html