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iTunes Web Service?

1st May 2003

Via Tim Bray, it turns out Apple’s new iTunes Music Store is driven under the hood by a whole load of XML documents, which are available via HTTP. Here’s hoping this leads to something similar to the Amazon Web Services API.

Posted 1st May 2003 at 3:23 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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