Google Data Protocol

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GData

Stable release	2.0.17 / April 20, 2012 (2012-04-20)

Written in	Software development tools
Website	developers.google.com/gdata/

GData (

Atom Publishing Protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries. It relies on XML or JSON

as a data format.

According to the Google Developers portal, "The Google Data Protocol is a REST-inspired technology for reading, writing, and modifying information on the web. It is used in some older Google APIs."[3] However, "Most Google APIs are not Google Data APIs."^[3]

Google provides GData client libraries for Java, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python,^[1] and Objective-C.^[2]

Implementations

An implementation called libgdata written in C is available under the LGPL license.

See also

Open Data Protocol (OData) – competing protocol from Microsoft
GData API Directory
Resource Description Framework (RDF) – a similar concept by W3C

References

^ ^a ^b Google Data Home Page
^ ^a ^b GData Client Libraries Documentation
^ ^a ^b "Google Data APIs". Google Developers. Retrieved 2023-04-13.

External links

Google Data APIs - Google Developers
Learning from THE WEB by Adam Bosworth - the vision behind GData

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