span class="byline-author"Posted by Eric Bidelman amp; Austin Chau, Google Data APIs Team/spanbr /br /p id="w_1_0" style="margin: 0px;"span style="border-collapse: collapse;" id="mdh4"span id="ow-y1" style="font-size:100%;"The Google Data team has developed /span/spana href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/clientlibs.html" id="t-1b" title="client libraries"span id="ow-y2" style="font-size:100%;"client libraries/span/aspan id="ow-y3" style="font-size:100%;" in .NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, and Objective-C. With the popularity /spanspan style="border-collapse: collapse;" id="liq5"span id="ow-y4" style="font-size:100%;"of other languages like Ruby/span/spanspan id="ow-y5" style="font-size:100%;", many developers have taken it upon themselves to build libraries for their favorite Google Data API. Here are two examples: /span/p p id="u3h9" style="margin: 0px;" br //p blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" id="ja6l" style="border: medium none ; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 40px; padding: 0px;" a href="http://code.google.com/p/base4r/wiki/Introduction" id="v_.2" title="base4r"span id="ow-y6" style="font-size:100%;"base4r/span/aspan id="ow-y7" style="font-size:100%;":br / A ruby gem that allows developers to create, update, and delete items using the Google Base Data API.br /br //span a href="http://code.google.com/p/libgcal/" id="fxq4" title="libgcal"span id="ow-y8" style="font-size:100%;"libgcal/span/aspan id="ow-y9" style="font-size:100%;":br / A /spana id="Description" p id="ri1c0" style="max-width: 65em; display: inline ! important;"span id="ow-y10" style="font-size:100%;" C/C++ library to interact with the Google Calendar and Contacts APIs. /span/p /a /blockquote p id="hmn2" style="margin: 0px;" br //p p id="hmn21" style="margin: 0px;"span style="border-collapse: collapse;" id="bia7"span id="ow-y11" style="font-size:100%;"For those of you who want to get involved in open source development/span/spanspan id="ow-y12" style="font-size:100%;", feel free to contribute to the/spanspan id="ow-y13" style="font-size:100%;"se projects or help us to improve Google's officially supported /spana href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/clientlibs.html" id="sm_q" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);" title="client libraries"span id="ow-y14" style="font-size:100%;"client libraries/span/aspan id="ow-y15" style="font-size:100%;". If you're interested in starting fresh, checkout Jeff Scudder's presentation on /spanspan style="font-weight: normal;" id="w3cd4"a id="ala2" href="http://sites.google.com/site/io/creating-a-google-data-api-client" title="Creating a Google Data API Client"span id="ow-y16" style="font-size:100%;"Creating a Google Data API Client/span/aspan id="ow-y17" style="font-size:100%;"./span/span/pp id="gvx." style="margin: 0px;"br //pp id="gvx.1" style="margin: 0px;"span id="ow-y18" style="font-size:100%;"Hack away!/span/pp id="fgap" style="margin: 0px;"br //pp id="fgap1" style="margin: 0px;"span id="ow-y19" style="font-size:100%;"Implemented your own client? Leave a comment./span/pbr /br /pfont size="-1"iUpdated 09/03/2008 to correct the name of base4r/i/font/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OfficialGoogleDataApisBlog?a=46bgzK"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OfficialGoogleDataApisBlog?i=46bgzK" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OfficialGoogleDataApisBlog?a=TTG0vk"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/OfficialGoogleDataApisBlog?i=TTG0vk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OfficialGoogleDataApisBlog/~4/369469448" height="1" width="1"/