I'm trying to log autocomplete responses from a gmail "people" server, and I'm trying to find a program or tool to do this, like the network section in chrome dev tools. I tried using a web crawler script, but authentication would be a mess. I also tried Wireshark, but it was all garble to me and probably the wrong way to go. Is this even possible? Can somebody help me, I'm totally out of my comfort zone here. please see attached image
It would be best to find an API that google makes public for the data that you need and use that to query the data. For people, google does have an API. Have a look here: https://developers.google.com/people
Tools commonly used to make HTTP queries are https://www.postman.com/ and https://curl.haxx.se/
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I want to link my website's Wordpress database to mobile application; and I am able to generate the APIs using wp-json plugin in Wordpress.
However, there is a lot of unwanted data which I do not want for the app. What are the custom parameters in the API url which will help me get only the information I am looking for?
http://www.indiafastener.com/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/2031
PS: I know I can manage & eliminate the unwanted information through the app as well however I do not want to unnecessarily pile up lot of data & do filters in the App.
Thanks for your time.
Utpal
Modern versions of WordPress have the REST API built into core therefore a plugin isn't required.
To check the arguments for an API call, take a look at the documentation. For retrieving a post, see: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/posts/#retrieve-a-post. There are no arguments for limiting the data provided by the response.
While it is possible to modify the response (https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/extending-the-rest-api/modifying-responses/), I'd advise against it.
As you pointed out in your question, this data can be managed on the app side. I'd argue that is where you should be dealing with it. It's not about eliminating 'unwanted information' but rather recognising the information you do want.
I have been looking all day at the Google Drive SDK for Android,
but I am a bit confused.
I need to make the list of folders and files in the user Google Drive account.
I thought that was a simple, basic standard feature, but maybe not...
Please can you help me?
You have two possible ways to go:
use RESTful API, or
use Google Drive Android Api (GDAA)
I would say the former would be easier to start with.
If you decide to go with the REST, you may use the GitHub demo here, that has both the REST and the GDAA 'CRUD' implementations (you just comment out the one you don't need). It also has some code to deal with the authentication / authorization which you need to do anything on Google Drive. See SO 28439129.
In case you decide to use GDAA, (you still have to get the authorization done), the 'official' to get you started demos are here and here.
You will definitely run into a lot of roadblocks and the solutions are mostly found here under the tag 'google-drive-android-api'.
Good Luck.
Few days ago I was able to make request to:
https://drive.google.com/a/{{domain}}/file/d/{{docDriveId}}/image?pagenumber=1&w=400
Via this API I was able to get image preview on multi-page documents.
Seems it's there, but times-out after some time. It doesn't work anymore. Does anyone know what happened? It seems there's no documentation on this API.
On the other hand, I am aware of the thumbnailLink URL when getting document object via API, but this will only get 1st page preview.
Any alternative solutions to this?
Thanks a lot,
M
That URL is not a part of the official Drive API and is not guaranteed to remain stable. The Drive API doesn't include the ability to fetch per-page image previews of documents, but you may want to investigate using the embedLink as an alternative: https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/files
i'm trying to make a chrome extension and I need the have an options page where the user is able to login. this way the extension knows who he is and can retrieve specific data from a server.
I'm not sure how to do this. Any one has a tutorial page or, better yet, a sample code?
thank you all!
A number of extensions use OAuth or OpenID for authentication. There is a tutorial for OAuth on code.google.com. You could also just use a username/password and make a XHR request to validate them. It really depends on the site and what authentication methods it offers.
You need an authentication engine... In other words you need to have a backend for your chrome extension which handles logging in and logging out. This is extremely easy to do. You can use a backend as a service if it's a small project (look at Parse or Firebase) or write your own backend using a framework like Ruby on Rails.
http://rubyonrails.org/; https://www.parse.com/; https://www.firebase.com/
Options pages are well documented on the official docs, including sample code.
I am on a mission to expand my knowledge and create an extension for chrome similar to how firephp works. I want to integrate with my existing logging and debugging api within my framework and I want to be able to send these messages to the console. Nothing really robust to start with just a way to send debug messages to the chrome console from php.
The plan is to send the messages via the headers and have the extension read those headers and interpret them. I've been trying to find information on accessing the response headers and can't find any examples. Some of the research has led me to possibly having to develop an NPAPI plugin to be able to accomplish this.
Before traveling down a dead end path I wanted to get the communities opinion here on which path I should be taking to find a solution.
Chrome cannot currently do this, but Google is working on it. A preliminary and incomplete implementation is in the development version of Chrome, or in Chrome Canary.
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.webRequest.html
onHeadersReceived
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/notifications-of-web-request-and-navigation
You can track progress here.
http://crbug.com/50943
The web request api is now in stable and can be used to access header events.
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html
Here is an extension that does what you are trying to do. It uses cookies to communicate, from what I can tell.