Questions tagged [gdata-api]

The GData API is a Rest style web protocol to pragmatically interact with google applications and a services, like Google Docs, Contacts and Calendar etc.

The GData API is a rest style web protocol based on Atom/RSS. It can be used to query, modify and data hosted by Google's web based applications like Google Docs, Contacts and Calendar etc..

Google has wrapped the GData API to client libraries for Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Objective-C. If you are asking a question regarding the GData API and one of these client libraries ensure you include the tag for the language also.

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Not receiving Google OAuth refresh token

I want to get the access token from Google. The Google API says that to get the access token, send the code and other parameters to token generating page, and the response will be a JSON Object like : { "access_token" :…
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Best option for using the GData APIs on Android?

What's the least painful and most size efficient way to use the Google Data APIs in an Android application? After a few quick searches t seems that there is an android-gdata project on Google Code that seems to be the work of a single author. I…
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Gmail Task API exist?

Inside Gmail, there is a small function called "Task". It can allow me to enter a to-do-list. I'm wondering if there is any official / unofficial Google API to access / update the list by Java language?
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Is there a Google Data API (gdata) for Python 3.x?

I would like to use Google Data API but I'm using Python 3. I didn't see that they mention anything about Python 3. Is it possible to install gdata for Python 3?
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How to convert Google spreadsheet's worksheet string id to integer index (GID)?

To export google spreadsheet's single worksheet to CSV, integer worksheet index(GID) is required to be passed. https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/download/spreadsheets/Export?key=%s&gid=%d&exportFormat=csv But, where are those informations?…
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Accessing older GData APIs (Spreadsheet API) using OAuth 2 and a service account

The short question is whether is this possible and if so, how? Outline I have a .NET application which currently uses a service account to access information across a Google Apps domain using the Google Drive API. This works fine using the…
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Getting artifacts when trying to read video stream from YouTube

I'm trying to read the video frames from the RTSP stream that I get from YouTube. Here is the link for my test video: rtsp://v8.cache5.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQkJlrXMiAG8BxMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp If I'm reading frames from the…
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YouTube API - Querying by publish date

I'm writing a webapp that uses the YouTube Code API to do specific types of searches. In this case, I'm trying to search for all videos that match a query, and which were uploaded between two dates. This document says I can use published-min and…
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how to work with spreadsheets using Google Drive API on iOS

I'm trying to write an iPhone app that stores its database in a Google spreadsheet. I followed the DrEdit example here which uses the Drive API to read/write plain text files to Google Drive. I'm trying to modify the example app to work with…
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Updating Google's Contacts API with JSON

With the Google Contacts API, you can GET contact information using JSON, but is there a way to update it using JSON? I haven't had any success in my attempts, and continue to get a "content not allowed in prolog" error when I try (seemingly…
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Show YouTube private videoes only for website users

I have experience with YouTube API. But I always used it for public videos. Now. what I want to achieve is, to make video on my YouTube channel TOTALLY invisible (in other word private) and shows this video only to website users. Is that possible…
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Alternative to ClientLogin for authentication

Since Google lists the ClientLogin API as deprecated what is the recommended alternative? In my case I need a server to authenticate and post things using credentials which I own. Alternatives like OAuth won't work in this context
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Embed Google Docs PDF viewer in IFRAME

When I upload PDF to Google Docs (using Python's gdata library), I get link to the document: >>> e.GetAlternateLink().href Out[14]: 'http://docs.google.com/a/my.dom.ain/fileview id=&hl=en' Unfortunately using that link in IFRAME…
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Different Python Google APIs

I am trying to figure out the difference between Google's GData API ( http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/ ) and Google's APIs Client Library for Python ( http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/ ). They both seem to be by Google.…
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Google+ photos api

Is there a Google+ photos gdata API? I was using Google picasa API but picasa has a 1 GB limit for photos. I want to upload all my photos using the script which i am writing to Google+ photos. Is there a Google+ photos gdata API?
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