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diff --git a/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/gapi.txt b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/gapi.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d1fa7d --- /dev/null +++ b/wired/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/08.06.07/Mon/gapi.txt @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +Google has added another API to its ever-growing stable of developer tools. The ["Google Documents List Data API"][1] can be used to upload new documents or to grab a list of existing documents from your Google Documents List. + +The Documents List Data API builds on the GData framework, but offers some more hooks into the Google Docs and Spreadsheets application. Other improvements include full-text search capabilities for grabbing particular documents. + +There's also a separate [Spreadsheets API][2] which offers some impressively fine grained options -- right down to individual spreadsheet cells. + +Google offers some code samples for the new API in both Java and Python. The notable absence of PHP -- probably the most popular web-programming language -- seems to indicate that Google seems this as more of a desktop client tool, though at this point the API is too simplistic to build anything really cool like a Microsoft Word or OpenOffice plug-in. + +[via [Google Blogoscoped][3]] + +[1]: http://code.google.com/apis/docsapis/overview.html +[2]: http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/overview.html +[3]: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-06-n59.html
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