“Time waits for no man.” If we bring that to the API world, it seems that developers do not wait for the official API. Google Plus has garnered a lot of mindshare in the last couple of weeks. When we asked is Google Plus API intentionally late many developers answered with their own homegrown APIs and widgets. This follows a rich tradition started with unofficial Google Maps mashups and continued with full-featured, unpublished Instagram API. Both have followed with official APIs and expect the same of Google Plus. But until then, you have the ones below.
Do note that with these unofficial APIs any minor changes by Google at their backend could break these solutions. Readers are also advised to use these extensions with care since some of them end up requesting access to personal information.
Here is a roundup of some of them:
A search on Github brings many more results. Developer are not likely to wait and Google in all probability is also taking a look at how developers are working around Google Plus to finalize its API strategy. If you know of other interesting mashups, APIs and browser extensions that work with Google Plus, do share them here.
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13 Responses to “The Unofficial Google Plus API–Wait, Which One?”
at 12:05 pm
Or, if your content with just waiting…
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
Which states:
“To stay updated as the Google+ project develops and get a heads up when we have more details to share about Google+ developer opportunities, sign up here. Your email will be added to a Google group. In addition, we’d love to gather more information about you.”
at 7:03 pm
Hi, I’m the developer of my.syyn.cc. A few things:
1 – The service is called “Syyncc”, not “Syncc”, I’d be most obliged if you’d correct the spelling above, and my apologies for the somewhat ridiculous spelling ;-)
2 – Also check out http://plusto.net/, Google+ to Twitter, the developer seems like a good fellow.
3 – A big shout out to the Buzzards, ie: the Google Buzz community (gives the secret handshake). That’s where Syyncc was born, and we all know it’s the true beating heart of Google+
at 7:31 pm
Here’s another one:
http://gplus.sagg.im/
Sync Google+ to Twitter, Identi.ca and Facebook
Instructions
- Add +Agent G to one of your circles (This step is optional, but makes it easier to share your posts with him)
- Sign in with Identi.ca, Twitter or Facebook (See buttons at the upper right corner)
- Once you have connected, you will be given an authentication string. – Create a Google+ post containing your authentication string and share it only with +Agent G
- You can now sync G+ posts to your connected accounts by simply sharing your post with +Agent G
at 4:31 am
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at 12:19 pm
[...] there were unofficial Google Plus APIs. That’s always a good sign of developer interest, such as when Instagram was reverse [...]
at 2:24 am
Here is another service posting from your G+ to your twitter acc: http://manageflitter.com/plus
There is some conflicting api requests possibly made by this service because twitter system automatically resetting user password sometimes.
at 9:01 am
[...] API for everyone to use. A good case in point recently was the Google Plus API, where a host of unofficial APIs sprouted up before the official one. Another example is that of Instagram, the popular photo [...]
at 11:32 am
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at 11:21 am
[...] networks such as Twitter and Facebook. In frustration, some developers have even created their own unofficial APIs, but they are fragile; any change to Google Plus’ implementation could make the renegade APIs [...]
at 6:45 pm
[...] Google’s social network was released there have been unofficial Google Plus APIs. And when the official Google Plus API was released, it was read-only and not as complete as [...]
at 6:55 am
[...] Google’s social network was released there have been unofficial Google Plus APIs. And when the official Google Plus API was released, it was read-only and not as complete as [...]
at 10:51 am
There has been developments and these guys figured out a way around the read only part. A software called Google Plus SecondLife and it allows the user to make posts to Google+.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vBVU_75w6b4