Part One: Adobe Animate and API Do you want to fetch data from an API and use the data in your Adobe Animate CC creative work? Animate CC productions are made by JavaScript and HTML canvas. In theory getting data should work. Let’s try! OpenWeatherMap The data from OpenWeatherMap is only available when you have […]
Category: API
APIs such as Instagram, Open Streetmap and more
Imaginary maps: Tolkien
Mapbox Cartogram
It’s a quick start method for Mapbox. Upload a picture, and select the colors on your map from the picture.
Open Streetmap API (embed)
View Larger Map Here Open Street Maps is embedded via a simple i-frame – but it’s just a standard map. Not much Leaflet or Mapbox styling is possible when we use the OSM embed options. But at least you may add a marker via the OSM web page. As far as I can see the […]
API – what’s out there?
The http://www.programmableweb.com/ is s vast collection of APIs for web developers. It is a fine place to start if you need some API service for your website or app.
APIs – more or less open data
The Instagram API is just one among many APIs. Here is a list of interesting sites: http://data.culturehack.org.uk/ http://museum-api.pbworks.com/w/page/21933420/Museum%C2%A0APIs Scotland Open Data http://okfnscot.github.io/open-data-scotland/ Scalar http://scalar.usc.edu/features/open-api/ Open Art History  http://openarthistory.org/ 30 Places http://blog.visual.ly/data-sources/ Open Weather http://openweathermap.org/api New York Times http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/times_newswire_api/ These are just a few examples …. Developers can access the APIs for e.g. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr etc. ( often a developer key, […]