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Gmail. But more than a specific API, it would be cool if websites simply provided an XML(/JSON/etc) version for every urls. Eg, http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
by nir 17y ago
Gmail.
But more than a specific API, it would be cool if websites simply provided an XML(/JSON/etc) version for every urls. Eg, http://news.ycombinator.com/item.xml?id=955077 http://news.ycombinator.com/item.xml?id=955077 would return the data in this page in XML format. This would be pretty simply to create (at least as read-only API), handle the situations where people resort to HTML scraping and effectively remove the need for API docs.
- jodrellblank 17y agoGMail has APIs - POP3 and IMAP.
- nir 17y agoThere's also RSS, but all of these provide access to mail functionality, while Gmail is a lot more than that. The uses I have in mind are closer to Google Labs' "Unsend", or having web service-like access to moving stuff around in gmail, creating alternate UI etc.