Google Deprecates SOAP API

Michi writes "Brady Forrest at O'Reilly Radar reports that Google has deprecated their SOAP API; they aren't giving out any new SOAP Search API keys. Nelson Minar (the original author of the Google SOAP API) argues that this move is motivated by business reasons rather than technical ones. Does this mark the beginning of the end for SOAP or for ubiquitous middleware in general?" Forrest's post quotes developer Paul Bausch: "This is such a bad move because the Google API was the canonical example of how web services work. Not only is Google Hacks based on this API, but hundreds of other books and online examples use the Google API to show how to incorporate content from another site into a 3rd party application."

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bastards

[PktLoss]

Bastards, I wrote one of those books! Quick buy your copy today, it's practicaly a collectable now.

Re:WTF is SOAP?

[MeanMF]

Spoken like a true Slashdotter... :)

Re:WTF is SOAP?

[jours]

> WTF is SOAP?

Based on the slashdotters I know, you aren't likely to get an answer to this here.

Soap, what was that?

[canuck57]

Soap, what was that....

Maybe something to do with:

UNIX Sex

{look;gawk;find;sed;talk;grep;touch;finger;find;fl ex;unzip;head;tail; mount;workbone;fsck;yes;gasp;fsck;more;yes;yes;eje ct;umount;makeclean; zip;split;done;exit:xargs!!;)}

Re:Soap, what was that?

[corsec67]

{look;gawk;find;sed;talk;grep;touch;finger;find;fl ex;unzip;head;tail; mount;workbone;fsck;yes;gasp;fsck;more;yes;yes;eje ct;umount;makeclean; zip;split;done;exit:xargs!!;)}

So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...)
The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.

Re:Soap, what was that?

[value_added]

So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape? (Not checking return codes...) The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails.

Yeah, but in the guy's defense, there wasn't a single argument to any of those commands.

Re:Soap, what was that?

[nacturation]

The semicolons should be double ampersands, so that execution will stop if a command fails. Who said anything about execution? Sounds like you're into some sick kind of sudo masochism.

Re:Soap, what was that?

[NthDegree256]

So is that why nerds are getting acused of rape?

You'd think Google would have paid attention to all those prison horror stories about dropping the SOAP.

Don't be evil!

[hernick]

Wow. This is the first time I read an article about Google and, for a second, find myself thinking "Google appears to be Evil and driven by Greed. This isn't happening. This is just a mistake. Google will see the light. Google is Good."

Re:Don't be evil!

[Ingolfke]

Yes. Google is evil. They've become drunk on their stock earnings and intend to use their massive computing capabilities to use up all of the Earth's energy in order to enslave mankind... it's all clear now that the SOAP Search API is gone.

Um... seriously though. Give them a bit of time and see if the make and announcement and publish an alternative (non-AJAX) API.

Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness

[Anonymous Coward]

Without soap Google will become evil.

Re:Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness

[freemywrld]

Without soap, google will become a hippy.

Obligatory questions/puns

[SeaFox]

• Does Google own any patent/copyright on SOAP? If Google is dropping SOAP I don't want to get fucked if I pick it up.
  
  
• No! Please don't let us run out of SOAP, Google! I feel so dirty using Microsoft's rival technology!
  
  
• This is quite a slippery situation. I hope Google will come clean on my they are depreciating the APIs.
  
  
• My reaction to this required me to use some SOAP - on my clothes.
  
  
• When the developers heard this we had to get some SOAP - for their mouths.
  
  
• I guess the "do no evil" bubble has finally burst...
  
  
• There must be a better solution that will allow the technology to continue while satisfying Google's business reasons. No reason to throw out the baby with the bath water...
  
  
• Why does Google have to play dirty like this?
  
  
• This doesn't smell like an Irish Spring to me!
  
  
• Hopefully they will introduce something even better for us to use, then the whole issue will be a wash.
  

SOAP Nazis

[Anonymous Coward]

No SOAP for you!

Oh! Come On.

[camperdave]

If so, then I'd say it's fine to drop SOAP. XMLRPC is a bit cleaner anyways.

Come on... Cleaner than SOAP? What could be cleaner than SOAP?

Re:WTF is SOAP?

[Anonymous Coward]

Have we already forgotten about Snakes on a Plane??

Re:What about XMLRPC?

[rjshields]

after many, many hours spent working through the confusing and pointless code google created to throw hackers off we finally worked out the url to get search data:

Why didn't you just use ethereal and be done in 5 minutes?

Re:Honeymoon is Over?

[jimbojw]

There is an eBay API.

Ah, but can I buy a Google API Key on eBay now that they're not being given away? Preliminary searches indicate 'no'.

Re:Honeymoon is Over?

[krishy]

Ahem. sorry for the misformatting... The irony! misformatting by 'TeXMaster' :)