api

Get the REST

As Representational State Transfer (REST) is gaining popularity, at least in the open source part of the softwareworld, we got more and more fond of cURL the swiss-army-knife command-line tool for transfering data using varios protocols.
Given that, we'd like to take you on a little tour on how to conquer a REST api using cURL, on the example of waldstat.Read more

The implementation of the ip to geo location script started as a quick hack in php. Sometimes I use php scripts because everyone can include it in his own website account (but I am not an active php programmer). It's much easier to write a simple php script instead of deploying a more complex web application. The quick result was this implementation as an example. After getting the php script to work I rewrote it in python, transformed it into a google appengine application and deployed it. Both worked fine and now there are two examples for the API integration available.Read more

• the tutorial how to use ip to geolocation provider api
• the free usage ip to geolocation aggregator script
• the php stand alone implementation
• the python google appengine implementation