Does anyone know of a web service where I can get price feeds and charts for the FTSE 100 and DOW Jones index?
I only need a delayed price feed not a real-time one.
It is for display on a public website so I assume we'll need a provider that we can pay to license the information?
Thanks,
Chris
If you don't need real time data, there is Google Finance.
For something a bit more professional, you can subscribe to Reuters DataLink.
There are also real-time data feeds from Reuters, but these are for heavy-weight players.
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I hope you are all very well. I'm developing a web platform for an assignment and I need to use the Maps JavaScript API. As you know, you are required to provide a credit card number to set up your billing account, unfortunately I'm from Venezuela and credit cards are not something that you can see every day, first I tried using a false credit card number, it didn't work, then I managed to find someone who had a credit card, but it seems like the credit limits in my country are not even high enough for Google to test that the credit card actually works. I've tried sending requests to the API but all of them have been rejected and I haven't been able to find any ways around this problem. It's very embarrassing to ask for this, but if someone could provide me with an API key that works, I'd very more than grateful, I can pay for using the API Key, my only problem is that I don't count with a credit card (I could pay with cryptocurrencies if that were an option), and even if I had a credit card, my country is not included in the list of countries that can be chosen when creating a new billing account. Thanks in advance, it's a very important assignment and I really need some help.
I believe that you can use a PayPal account. For Google Cloud you can prepay an account, maybe you can do the same with Google Maps.
A shared API key will probably get blocked quickly by Google, so do not try to go that route.
Another idea is to join a local Google Developer Group, someone might be able to help you. Also, sometimes developer/educational credits are available. This is worth your time and can help you with contacts as you develop your skills.
Google Developer Groups
Link to the Caracas GDG
We are considering using voice commands to activate entry to a car park using Alexa.
I have seen that there are costs for using aws iot services and it is based on the number of devices and the number of transactions.
At first I thought that the user would pay this cost through a subscription to a skill that we are developing.
However, we are still not sure how much that subscription would cost.
I have tried to know what the system of some manufacturers of smart lamps that can be controlled with Alexa is like and I have seen that their skills are apparently free on Amazon.
So my question is:
How do they earn money to maintain the aws iot service?
Any comments or suggestions are welcome.
In-skill purchasing lets you sell premium content, such as game features and interactive stories in custom skills. You can offer in-skill products with the following payment models, One-time purchase, Consumable, Subscription. If you want to create in-skill products, more information can be found here: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/in-skill-purchase/isp-overview.html
I have a real time web analytics problem to address, and I'm wondering if some of the WSO2 products might be an appropriate solution.
An ecommerce web site shows pages of products to a browser user, and the web site vendor wants to collect details of what products were viewed in a list, what products were selected from the list for more info, what products were put into the basket, and what products were actually purchased - all in real time. I can use web page tagging to generate logging events for the four states (I.e. In list, view detail, in basket, purchased). The web site vendor wants too see results summarized by product and by rolling time band (e.g. Last hour, last 6 hours, last 24 hours, last 72 hours) by the four product states.
As a complete WSO2 newbie I'm hoping somebody can help with some pointers on how to address this. I've been reading about the BAM module to capture events. Is that a good place to start? Also can anybody suggest a good in memory data store to hold the event data aggregated by event type and rolling time period?
TIA
Yes, BAM is more kind batch processing, monitoring and complex engine and using it you can capture data, process and then present. In architectural point of view, the product states that are changed by the browser user will be captured by the web server and publish to BAM server.
A good point to start is learning about data publishing. Once you define the data [in BAM it is known as stream definition] to be published, you can write a hive script to process it and present. You can pump all data to BAM and then you can use hive script to process and store it in the manner you wanted. Later you can retrieve and present.
I'm writing my own service to track my growing library and notify me of when books become available. I'm in the middle of 5 series waiting for the next book to come out. I also pick some up locally and would like to grab similar titles from amazon. How can I get my purchase history and similar titles? Is there an API for these? I haven't found anything from searches.
I don't think Amazon exposes an API for order history.
The closest thing seems to be the product advertising API: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/Welcome.html
That would allow you to search for items, for example using ItemSearch:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSECommerceService/latest/DG/ItemSearch.html
Alternatively, you probably could write a script scrape the data by navigating through the order history page, or to help you capture each page of results as you manually navigate your order history. You're on your own for this option, though.
What options exist to facilitate payments to banks or credit card companies? Are there programmatic APIs for banks that, say, perform the same actions as paypal might? I'm looking for libraries or options that aren't through an existing provider; that could be developed on their own.
Basically, lately I've become interested in ecommerce and I'm wondering how the communication between a website and a bank or credit card company is made.
I've looked around a bit, but I'm not really sure about the terminology in the field; any resources you could point me at, or good books about the subject would be awesome. Thanks!
You get a merchant account with a bank, then sign up with a merchant processor like Cybersource or Litle. The merchant processor provides an webservice API to process authorizations, payments, credits, and voids. You implement the processor's API and then you can do online payments. They act as a go-between for you and the credit card company. You're not likely going to get permission to communicate directly with the credit card's network.
Maybe use this link as a starting point. This is cybersource's API documentation.