Many of the social networks provides RESTful APIs to expose their capabilities. Let us look at the RESTful APIs of popular social media services:
Social media services |
RESTFul API |
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YouTube |
Add YouTube features to your application, including the ability to upload videos, create and manage playlists, and more. |
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The Graph API is the primary way to get data out of, and put data into, Facebook's platform. It's a low-level HTTP-based API that you can use to programmatically query data, post new stories, manage ads, upload photos, and perform a variety of other tasks that an app might implement. |
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Twitter provides APIs to search, filter, and create an ads campaign. |