Thursday, June 02, 2005
Hacking Books with Safari Web Services
O'Reilly Network: Hacking Books with Safari Web Services: "Safari Web Services
Safari Books Online is a joint venture between O'Reilly Media Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group. For the past three years, they've been making offline technical books available on the Web. This means developers can search through the entire contents of thousands of technical books just like anything else on the Web, looking for the code fragment or explanation that solves a task at hand.
This July, Safari took things a step further by releasing their web services API, giving developers programmatic access to their data. This means that not only can developers search through technical books and read the contents through a web browser--they can route that Safari data anywhere they need it.
The Safari API has a REST interface, with request URLs returning XML over HTTP. The response XML is organized by elements with child elements containing all of the data about that particular book"
Safari Books Online is a joint venture between O'Reilly Media Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group. For the past three years, they've been making offline technical books available on the Web. This means developers can search through the entire contents of thousands of technical books just like anything else on the Web, looking for the code fragment or explanation that solves a task at hand.
This July, Safari took things a step further by releasing their web services API, giving developers programmatic access to their data. This means that not only can developers search through technical books and read the contents through a web browser--they can route that Safari data anywhere they need it.
The Safari API has a REST interface, with request URLs returning XML over HTTP. The response XML is organized by
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