Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#1

Post by shafqat » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:09 PM UTC

Are there APIs that you wish existed to help make your work easier? Help your startup? Or just allow you to build cool products?

Re: Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?

#2

Post by shafqat » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:10 PM UTC

I'll start. Wish there was an API that:

1) Allowed me to find high quality, license free images easily.

2) Let me access LinkedIn data. I know LinkedIn has an API, but its not open.

#3

Post by fname » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:14 PM UTC

Fantasy Football APIs, partuclarly Yahoo's.

#4

Post by lamnk » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:22 PM UTC

IMDB's API

#5

Post by mattdennewitz » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:29 PM UTC

fname wrote: post #3

Fantasy Football APIs, partuclarly Yahoo's.

fantasy anything would be nice

#6

Post by mattdennewitz » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:30 PM UTC

mlb game data, within 24 hours of each game

#7

Post by shafqat » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:36 PM UTC

fname wrote: post #3

Fantasy Football APIs, partuclarly Yahoo's.

Wow, I forgot about this - couldn't agree more. Have been waiting for this for a long time.

#8

Post by pistoriusp » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:38 PM UTC

An API that implements multiple tableview row editing in the iPhone SDK.

#9

Post by runinit » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:39 PM UTC

Traktor Pro

#10

Post by btucker » Sat, Nov 21, 2009, 11:43 PM UTC

A reverse lookup for finding all the shortened URLs associated with a given canonical URL.