My last post described how to create a monitor that calls Flickr’s Interestingness SOAP API to retrieve a list of recently uploaded photos that Flickr users have found interesting. Once the list of interesting photos is retrieved, we might want to call other Flickr API endpoints to retrieve more detailed information about the individual photos. […]
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Monitoring Flickr’s Interestingness SOAP API
The API Science platform provides capability for monitoring APIs that utilize SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) interfaces. The photo sharing site Flickr offers a substantive API that can be accessed using multiple protocols, including SOAP. In this article series I’ll use the Flickr API to illustrate techniques that can be applied for monitoring the status and performance of SOAP-based APIs. Flickr invented a metric they call interestingness, which ranks posted photos based on statistics including clickthroughs, comments, favorites, tags…
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While (RESTful) web services are the predominant design pattern for modern APIs, there remain many APIs that employ the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) protocol. Can the uptime and performance of SOAP APIs be monitored using your API Science account? Most certainly! In this post, I’ll illustrate how to configure an API Science monitor that […]
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