Google this week began offering an alpha version of Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript, which provides access to HTTP-based APIs on the Web, as well as to many of Google’s public APIs.

With the Google API, there would be no network hit at all. The browser could have the IP addresses for the libraries and other often-called developer resources available to avoid DNS hits.

Google has updated the client libraries and code examples for the new Google Ads API version 12, which was released a couple of weeks ago. The code examples are on Github and include ...

However, developers should know that Google's API client libraries currently don't support the JavaScript Object Notation standard format returned by the Google Maps Engine API.