Re:Google discontinues support for hangouts API
by dadoprso on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @11:17AM
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My guess is there are no guarantees. No support. You may get a response you may not. Your request may take 2 ms or 20000 ms. The service may get overloaded, etc.
Re:Google discontinues support for hangouts API
by chinhodado on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @09:41PM
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Have you tried to use the Translate "API" in any non trivial way? Google is very good at detecting this and will block your request (or present you with a captcha).
When Google shuts down an API, how much of it is actually shut down?
For example: I know they said they shut down the free Translation API back in 2011. If you go to their website they go on and on about how you have to pay for every use now...except...with a very simple query I can still throw requests through a Google server for free translations without any API key. So it's obviously not actually shut down.
So when an API shuts down, is it actually shut down or does it keep on living just in secret hoping nobody notices? Is Translate a secret but maybe not so secret exception?