Friday, June 20, 2008 at 1:22 PM
As the days grow longer and summer takes full stage, many of us are flocking to patios and parks to engage in the time-honored tradition of grilling food. When it comes to cooking outdoors, the type of grills used span a spectrum from primitive to high tech. For some people a small campfire is all that's required for the perfect outdoor dining experience. For other people the preferred tool for outdoor cooking is a quad grill gas-powered stainless steel cooker with enough features to make an Iron Chef rust with envy.
An interesting off-shoot of outdoor cooking techniques is solar cooking, which combines primitive skills and modern ingenuity. At its most basic, solar cooking involves creating an "oven" that is placed in the sun and passively cooks the food it contains. It is simple to get started with solar cooking because a solar oven is something people can make themselves with inexpensive materials and a bit of effort. The appeal of simplicity, inexpensiveness and the ability to "do it yourself" has created a growing group of people who are making solar ovens themselves.
Although the current API offers a limited subset of all the functionality that Webmaster Tools provides, this is only the beginning. Get started with the Developer's Guide for the Webmaster Tools Data API to begin working with the API.
Webmasters... fire up your custom tools and get cooking!
An interesting off-shoot of outdoor cooking techniques is solar cooking, which combines primitive skills and modern ingenuity. At its most basic, solar cooking involves creating an "oven" that is placed in the sun and passively cooks the food it contains. It is simple to get started with solar cooking because a solar oven is something people can make themselves with inexpensive materials and a bit of effort. The appeal of simplicity, inexpensiveness and the ability to "do it yourself" has created a growing group of people who are making solar ovens themselves.
How all this relates to webmasters is that the webmaster community is also made up of a diverse group of people who use a variety of tools in a myriad of ways. Just like how within the outdoor cooking community there's a contingent of people creating their own solar ovens, the webmaster community has a subgroup of people creating and sharing their own tools. From our discussions with webmasters, we've consistently heard requests to open Webmaster Tools for third-party integration. The Webmaster Tools team has taken this request to heart and I'm happy to announce that we're now releasing an API for Webmaster Tools. The supported features in the first version of the Webmaster Tools API are the following:
- Managing Sites
- Retrieve a list of your sites in Webmaster Tools
- Add your sites to Webmaster Tools
- Verify your sites in Webmaster Tools
- Remove your sites from Webmaster Tools
- Working with Sitemaps
- Retrieve a list of your submitted Sitemaps
- Add Sitemaps to Webmaster Tools
- Remove Sitemaps from Webmaster Tools
Although the current API offers a limited subset of all the functionality that Webmaster Tools provides, this is only the beginning. Get started with the Developer's Guide for the Webmaster Tools Data API to begin working with the API.
Webmasters... fire up your custom tools and get cooking!
22 comments:
really great news, thanks a lot for this.
Realy great and will be useful for webmasters.
Fantastic, thank you!
Now if the submission would allow extra parameters to specify crawl rate, preferred domain and geographic target the API would be perfect but the initial release is already a great enhancement.
Jonathan
Congrats on going live. I can't wait for the next phase. Now, about that download all query stats files... :-)
That is positively a great move.
Those API will sure come handy.
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Awesome! I have to manually update site maps for multiple clients and this might save me some time. Cant wait to see all the features that are eventually added.
Thats a great ideas as webmasters can completely automate their handling of multiple websites.
Sound interesting. Lets see how much it will be useful. Looking forward to it.....
One of the key things you can do in the Webmaster Tools site is the geotargeting API.
Working for a large media agency, one of the most useful additions would be having access to this through the API.
Is there any release schedule for further features?
I'm thinking access to download files would be very useful.
Rgds
Richard
If you are interested in solar cooking as mentioned above, please visit The Solar Cooking Archive Wiki.
Tom Sponheim
Solar Cookers International
Psssst.. Was checking out the Webmaster API upon recommendation from ProgrammableWeb.. One of the extremely rare times I was actually going to go from Point A to Point Z in a menu..
Typing because, um, Point A..
Doesn't work so much.. :grin:
A quick look at the source, and it's most likely because #Audience is used when the internal [anchor] is "audience" (lower cased "a")..
You're messin' with a kid's head when you do that, ya know.. :wink:
Peace and best wishes from North Georgia..
Now that google is interested in renewable energy, could they help appropriate tech, not just high tech?
In the last year, I have made a low tech solar accumulator, a low tech solar tracker and I am going to make a low tech heliostat too.
Google has been great help propigating the ideas.
If you can switch low income people to solar energy (with low tech) there will be more oil left to power your server farms!
Why my site verification often reseted? It's ok on the first verification but than few days later, it said "We were unable to verify your file due to a server timeout.".
I tested my site, and no problem with it. Need advice... thx.
http://orisinil.com
Hi, someone can use the webmaster tools api to submit domains to a google account?
Where can I find a php sample of this implementation?
Thanks
Really nice. I wish one day i could be there. You guys are amazing.:)
But will it do popcorn?
Hey Google!
Great post, and glad to see all the amazing things the company is doing with regards to renewable energy. Very cool tuff and keep up the great work!
Regards,
Jonathan
www.GreenJoyment.com
www.CarrieAndJonathan.com
Love the solar oven. That's something we plan to do this next Summer so we can further reduce our carbon footprint and utility bills. Thanks for a great blog! Vikki www.food-self-sufficiency.blogspot.com
Surely google can do better than that. Why not venture into the wonderful world of parabolic solar cooking.
The future is bright, the future is solar cooking.
Just think if solar cooking was actively promoted by our governments. How many countless lives would be saved, not to mention the reduction in energy bills, and the millions of tons of firewood saved.
Why not have a go at building a solar cooker yourself
http://solreka.com/blog/solar-cooking/how-to-build-parabolic-solar-cooker/
Hi everyone,
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