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chrisbroadfoot on Feb 6, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gmailr: An Unofficial Javascript API for Gmail

API stands for Application Programming Interface.

What in that says anything about being official or not?!

There are a TON of APIs that make it easy to hook into unsupported channels.

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