This article is about the Google Data Protocol. For the software company, see G Data.
GData (Google Data Protocol) provides a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the Internet, designed by Google. GData combines common XML-based syndication formats (Atom and RSS) with a feed-publishing system based on the Atom Publishing Protocol, plus some extensions for handling queries. It relies on XML or JSON as a data format.
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.
* https://git.gnome.org/browse/libgdata/tree/
See also
- Open Data Protocol (OData) – competing protocol from Microsoft
- Resource Description Framework (RDF) – a similar concept by W3C
References
External links
- GData
- Learning from THE WEB by Adam Bosworth – the vision behind GData
