Blog Archive : api

API: JSON vs XML

What is JSON? JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format. It is easy for humans to read and write. It is easy for machines to parse and generate. Based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language, JSON is a text format that is completely language independent but uses conventions that are familiar to programmers of the C-family ...

Read more »

API: Making Bulk Changes

The Problem Your advertiser has just e-mailed to inform you that they have acquired a shorter domain name. They would like you to change all of their ads to redirect to the new, shorter domain name. So, you log in to AdvertPro, go the media listing, filter it by their advertiser account and as you were fearing they have around ...

Read more »

API: Security Best Practices

Wait... There's an API? For those of you that missed the announcement back in April, both AdvertPro and AdvertServe now have a complete data management, code generation and reporting API. What can you do with the API? Just about anything that you can do with the control panel. In fact, our control panel is running on top of the API, ...

Read more »

Looking for something else? Browse the archives...