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:Honeymoon is Over?

[WasterDave]

Yes indeed it is. The cool kids see externally provided services and say "mashup! mashup! mashup!", the old timers see them and say "risk! risk! risk!".

Dave

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.

Uncleanliness is next to Satanliness

[Anonymous Coward]

Without soap Google will become evil.

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:WTF is SOAP?

[omeomi]

SOAP (originally Simple Object Access Protocol) is a protocol for exchanging XML-based messages over computer network, normally using HTTP. SOAP forms the foundation layer of the Web services stack, providing a basic messaging framework that more abstract layers can build on. The original acronym was dropped with Version 1.2 of the standard, which became a W3C Recommendation on June 24, 2003, as it was considered to be misleading. - Wikipedia.org

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.

Drop-In Replacement Already Available

[feste12]

There's already a drop-in replacement for applications that are using Google's SOAP API. It scrapes Google's web results and returns them via a SOAP layer. The code behind it is free under the MIT License.