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Im at the point where i would like to start playing around with some web information apis in my programs. Noting Specific but something that i can use with java or python. I tried using the google task api, but it seemed a little tough with the authentication process.Any suggestions?
Have a look at the Twitter API and the Flickr API. They’re both pretty easy to work with: it’s just a matter of constructing a URL, making a web request, getting the XML response and parsing that XML response. They both have methods which are public and don’t need authentication.
When you are a bit more comfortable, you can start looking at using authentication for user-specific data requests. For OAuth with Java, you can have a look at the OAuth-Signpost library.