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I am looking for a API/web service for me to retrieve a list of landmarks, points of interest (and their GPS coordinates) near a given city. I tried google places including the query Place Search and type point_of_interest, but the results do not seem satisfactory.
For example, to Paris, I need an answer:
Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Champs Elysees, ...
What would you advise me to find such information.
A couple options:
Foursquare Venues Platform
Factual Places API
Google places has the flag "point_of_interest" but only to show, not for search (see Table 2 in https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types)
Google Earth on the other hand has what you need. See the icons for Tourist destination, Monument and Historical Place in https://support.google.com/earth/answer/180709?hl=en#what
However I am not sure if there is an API for this data, or if you need to find a way to extract it from GE.
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This is a chart that represents a stat per hour. This was taken from last.fm website which shows the no. of "scrobbles" (songs played) per hour.
Is this kind of chart possible with chart.js? I have been able to find a highcharts equivalent of what I am looking for:
Highcharts Windrose Example
I am already using chart.js within my application and don't want to use 2 libraries to do one job. The closest I have been able to find a chart.js equivalent is this polar chart
Can anyone please guide me to a resource that will help me build something like this? Or if you know a better way to represent stat by hour, I am open to that as well.
Thanks.
It can not be done "out of the box" with chart.js
However chart.js exposed a lot of the canvas api, so you need to write your own chart.js plugin and register a own chart type.
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I'd like to use a web service or a different solution to retrieve the names of all higher education institutions (universities, colleges, technical schools etc.) wordwide. This will enable the users of a job application web app to enter/select the higher education institution they attended in a consistent manner.
Could you please point out to such a resource?
You could use dbpedia.
Example query to get 50 universities:
SELECT ?university
WHERE {
?university rdf:type <http://dbpedia.org/ontology/University>
} LIMIT 50
You could use it at dbpedia sparql. You could also search for generic educational institution, college, etc.
Or you could simply use wikipedia universities list
EDIT:
List of 9000 universities, included country and web. Data is easy to extract as dataset its in CSV format. Link to github project
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I'm making an application in Qt to show bitcoin charts (perhaps to trade in the future as well).
I want it to be presented in the traditional OHLC (Open High Low Close) format.
So far the only ways I found to chart the price data was in Python (and not easy to update in realtime at all). Anyone knows a good chart library for C++/Qt that I can use here?
I see Qt, has Qt charts, but that's a paid library and I want my project to be free.
The QCustomPlot library can create OHLC and candlestick charts:
The class you're looking for there is the QCPFinancial plottable. For realtime display, you can change all the data with setData(...) and access or modify existing values with the data() method.
I've used QWT for live charts in biomedical applications and liked it a lot.
http://qwt.sourceforge.net/
It has a trade plot class you could have a look at:
http://qwt.sourceforge.net/class_qwt_plot_trading_curve.html
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I am looking for an api to download a list of movies when the search term is an actor, actress or director.
So if actor = "Tom Cruise", I get a list of all his movies.
If director = "James Cameron", I get a list of all the movies he directed.
I have checked the sites which use iMDB's api but they search by movie title or imdb id.
Same for RottenTomatoes.
I am aware of IMDb's text files.
Any ideas?
http://www.theimdbapi.org makes this information available via a RESTful JSON API.
From their examples:
http://www.theimdbapi.org/api/find/person?name=jim+carrey
returns all of the info regarding Jim Carrey's films.
I don't believe that it has the parameters to get quite as detailed as you were hoping for, but it could certainly give you the bulk of the information you need.
Edit:
I also noticed that the other posted solution is no longer working. Seems that the location of the documentation for themoviedb.org is actually at this location now:
https://developers.themoviedb.org/3/people
Honestly, it seems a bit more robust.
(I also realized after posting how old this actual issue is, but hopefully it is still helpful to someone who stumbles upon it.. )
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I am building an RSS Reader. Some of the existing ones out there (for example, Pulse News for iPhone/iPad) have a search box where you can search for some term (example - "sports") and it will return a list of feeds that match your search criteria. So in this example, you type in "sports", and it searches and then comes back with ESPN.com's news feed, Yahoo! Sports' news feed, etc. etc.
What search engine does that? I've looked at Syndic8.com and it was kind of crap compared to whatever Pulse is using. If you search for "sports" it returns feeds I've never even heard of from obscure sites.
Thank you!
You can have a look a the google feed api and espacially: https://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/ajaxfeeds/documentation/reference.html#findFeeds
2017 Answer here.
There's a service called Pine (which I run) that aggregate Blog RSS and JSON feeds, and it has a free API.
https://pinesearch.com