Tag Archives: api

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 8:15 pm on February 3, 2023
Tags: api, twitter   

Twitter API Changes

tl;dr: Twitter will begin charging for APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. access, possibly as early as the 9th of February. If your pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party integrates with the API (be it v1.1 or v2), PLEASE make sure you look into the changes and how they might impact you!

Yesterday Twitter announced it will be charging for access to the API.

Estimated cost is ~$100/month, with a requirement of a valid ID, however there is no information yet as to how much traffic that entails. Since information is not going to be provided until next week (giving everyone a whopping max 3 days to figure this out), I wanted to make sure everyone was as notified as can be.

This will likely impact:

  • Auto-posting
  • Login with Twitter
  • Analytics
  • Management Tools
  • Scripted Interactions (auto-blocking etc)

Access to search is already a pay-only service.

If your plugin (or the related service) does any of those, you will have to investigate if this change impacts you. If you are impacted, you will need to update (or close) your plugin accordingly. I know a lot of free plugins will have some hard choices to make here.

For plugin users, if a plugin suddenly breaks on/around the 9th, please be generous and kind to the developers. They really got blindsided by this, and it’s a lot to sort out in a short amount of time.

#api, #twitter

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 5:36 pm on January 24, 2020
Tags: api, instagram   

Instagram is accelerating the end…

Instagram is accelerating the end of their current APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways..

Per a notice on https://www.instagram.com/developer/ no new clients can register, and soon some basic functionality will be changed.

We will be reviewing plugins that call these functionalities and, if they are not updated, will close them in order to prevent adverse impact on users.

If you know you’re not going to want to fix this, please email plugins@wordpress.org, provide a link to the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party, and tell us you’d like us to close it. We know that Instgram (and Facebook) have been difficult to work with this last year, and fully respect and support your decisions here with regards to your plugins.

Here is Instagram’s announcement:

UPDATE: Starting October 15, 2019, new client registration and permission review on Instagram API platform are discontinued in favor of the Instagram Basic Display API.

To continuously improve Instagram users’ privacy and security, we are accelerating the deprecation of Instagram API Platform, making the following changes effective immediately. We understand that this may affect your business or services, and we appreciate your support in keeping our platform secure.

These capabilities will be disabled immediately (previously set for July 31, 2018 or December 11, 2018 deprecation). The following will be deprecated according to the timeline we shared previously:

  • Public Content – all remaining capabilities to read public media on a user’s behalf on December 11, 2018
  • Basic – to read a user’s own profile info and media in early 2020

For your reference, information on the new Instagram Graph API.

#instagram #api

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 10:27 pm on August 18, 2016
Tags: api, boom   

Facebook Changed Sharing Counts

Today, Facebook released version 2.7 of their APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. and changed the manner in which shared posts are counted.

That would have been okay, except they also turned off the part of the 1.0 API (the one that didn’t use versions in their URLs because who needed that?) and blindsided everyone. Reading the Facebook Dev Changelog didn’t make that any more sensible to me either. But what I can tell you is here are some affected plugins/services:

  • Jetpack: https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/pull/4879
  • Genesis Simple Share Buttons: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/facebook-share-counts-not-showing
  • SharedCount: https://www.sharedcount.com/notes/facebook_api_shutdown.php

Anyone who has a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party (or theme) with sharing buttons that count MAY be affected. If someone can come up with a way to scan the repository for impacted plugins, let me know and I’ll be happy to do that and email as many of them directly as we can.

#api, #boom

Ipstenu (Mika Epstein) 1:51 am on April 11, 2013
Tags: , api   

Google Maps JavaScript v2 API To Be Removed

If you’re using the Google Maps JavaScriptJavaScript JavaScript or JS is an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers. WordPress makes extensive use of JS for a better user experience. While PHP is executed on the server, JS executes within a user’s browser. https://www.javascript.com/. APIAPI An API or Application Programming Interface is a software intermediary that allows programs to interact with each other and share data in limited, clearly defined ways. v2 (and 78 of you are), your plugins will break on May 19th. This means we’ll not be accepting any plugins that use the old code (and probably will close your plugins that do if you don’t fix ’em).

From Google, Google Maps JavaScript v2 (Deprecated)

The Google Maps JavaScript API Version 2 has been officially deprecated as of May 19, 2010. The V2 API will continue to work until May 19, 2013. We encourage you to migrate your code to version 3 of the Maps JavaScript API.

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

The Maps API is a free service, available for any web site that is free to consumers. Please see the terms of use for more information.

To use the Maps API on an intranet or in a non-publicly accessible application, please check out Google Maps API for Business.

So please update your plugins.

(Props to Kailey Lampert for this post)

#3rd-party, #api