Thread: API Simplified?
View Single Post
Old 05-20-2016, 05:06 AM  
Barry-xlovecam
It's 42
 
Industry Role:
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Global
Posts: 18,083
Cam XML feeds are not APIs.

XML feeds are raw data output organized in <nodes>.

Perhaps, what you develop as a program to parse and manipulate that XML feed might be called YOUR API to the raw data of that XML feed.

The problem with XML (or RSS) feeds are that they are duplicate content. What is duplicate data in that feed, exactly the same as every affiliate gets, needs to be word substituted -- then used in the text. Or, that feed's data should constitute no more that 30% or 40% of that page(s) total textural content. That is, if you are looking to build SEO traffic by building dynamic pages utilizing feeds.
Barry-xlovecam is offline   Share thread on Digg Share thread on Twitter Share thread on Reddit Share thread on Facebook