{"id":23,"date":"2008-02-10T21:31:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bob-ak.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-02-10T21:31:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T20:31:32","slug":"my-first-mashup-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"My first mashup application!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not exactly a big achievement &#8211; although it took a while to build (worked late on a number of occasions), I&#8217;m quite proud of it! I had to get familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/maps\/\">Google Map&#8217;s API<\/a> and understand the basics of screen (or data) scraping. For this I found a very good web site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oooff.com\/php-scripts\/php-scraping-scripts.php\">oooff.com<\/a>) which had great examples. If you know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.php.net\">PHP<\/a> you can pick this up very quickly. If you don&#8217;t know PHP, do not worry as you can either learn the basics of it pretty quickly or you can buy an already made data scraping too (search the web &#8211; don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=data+scraping+tools&amp;fr=yfp-t-501&amp;toggle=1&amp;cop=mss&amp;ei=UTF-8&amp;fp_ip=UK&amp;vc=\">Yahoo<\/a>!).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bob-ak.com\/research\/baa\/\">first mashup application<\/a> &#8211; the flights information data is taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heathrowairport.com\/portal\/page\/General\/Heathrow%5EGeneral%5EFlight+information%5ELive+flight+departures\/\">BAA&#8217;s web site<\/a>. Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not exactly a big achievement &#8211; although it took a while to build (worked late on a number of occasions), I&#8217;m quite proud of it! I had to get familiar with Google Map&#8217;s API and understand the basics of screen (or data) scraping. For this I found a very good web site (oooff.com) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mashup","category-programming","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob-ak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}