Google Introduces API Console

I thought it would be an interactive console, like http://tryruby.org. Imagine being able to play with an API like that, with nothing to sign-up for or download and set-up.

Listing the APIs before having to sign up would have been useful though. Here's the current set:

  * Buzz
  * Custom Search
  * Diacritize
  * Feed
  * Latitude
  * Moderator
  * Prediction
  * Translate

It's nice to have a dashboard, but I'd have preferred support for the traditionally painful (quota-wise) APIs like Google Maps Geocoding and YouTube Uploads. Just knowing that you are about 5 months away from needing a Google Maps API Premier account can be quite useful.

Very awesome.

The prediction API looks really cool, which could hopefully make its way into a mashup. The feed push API seems genuinely useful, although it'd be nice to see a demo of its power/flexibility.

I wonder how much Buzz data we can get our hands on, and how easily?

Official announcement: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/11/introducing-google-ap...

That's a name that might cause some confusion. When I see the word "API console" I think of this: http://www.apiaudio.com/1608.html

This is only a subset of Google APIs. I am looking for the maps API. I hope they add more APIs later. It seems to be a great way to monitor and control API usage.

Link: https://code.google.com/apis/console/

I think the biggest news here (which I think Google tried to hide under all the announcements of "new" stuff) is that the web search ajax api was deprecated. There is no no official way to search the entire web with a Google api. I imagine this will be painful to many many sites and applications out there.