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Understanding social media APIs
From the course: Learning Cloud Service APIs
Understanding social media APIs
Social media companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr are big believers in service APIs. After all, when developers incorporate a particular API in their app, they are, essentially, extending the social network. In the balance of this chapter, we'll examine APIs for the aforementioned top social media companies, but before we drill down to the details, let's take a moment to get a better sense of how social media APIs work and what they can do. So, what can you do with social media APIs in general? First off, you can get content to display within your app. This includes individual items such as Facebook posts, single Twitter tweets and Flickr photos. You can also get syndicated items as well, like Facebook threads, tweets and retweets and so on. Not only can you get primary content, but you can also get related details. For example, information from a Facebook user profile like a birthday date or Flickr photo metadata including a location and date of the published images. Social…
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