myFeedz API v1.0 available
In the last month or so we focused all of our efforts on implementing an API that helps myFeedz users pull content from our database of articles into their own websites. As the docs say:
Its primary audience is made up of power bloggers and other technology enthusiasts that can use it as a tool to track down information and trends in the news. A couple of use cases that we thought of are:
- automatic tagger for your blog posts;
- keep track of your reading interests with a tag cloud of your profile;
- display a tag cloud for your blog or blogs (thus tracking your writing interests);
- display content related to your posts — find out who is writing about the same things that you do;
- display articles from a certain topic and perform custom searches.
In order to use the myFeedz API you have to sign-up for a free account and you will receive an API key, required by all the calls made to the API. You can find your API key under the profile page of your account.
Feel free to use it for whatever you have in mind, as the API arguments allow for pretty creative queries, like the ones you can find in the examples section of the docs. All the examples there, as well as the two badges in the sidebar of this blog (Hot Topics and Top Articles) use the actual API, so you can get a pretty good idea about how the output looks like.
Usability improvements
In this update, we also rolled in a pretty useful feature to the signup and manage OPML pages. If you have an account with another online RSS reader—we currently support Bloglines, Google Reader, Rojo, NewsGator Online and myEarthLinkReader—, a small wizard will assist you in importing your current subscriptions into myFeedz, so that we can provide you with a custom profile based on your interests, all in a much easier process.
Happy coding!
September 29th, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Is anyone using the API in their sites? If you’ve done some integration work with the myFeedz API, please leave a comment with the URL to those sites.