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Does rss count as an api?
by danw 18y ago
Does rss count as an api?
- SingAlong 18y agoIMO yes if they can offer different parameters for search keywords etc. (like Twitter's search RSS/Atom feed allows search parameters) Newspapers, have read about a few sometime ago. Associated Press offers one (feeds). But the best choice would be to go for Daylife's API. http://developer.daylife.com http://developer.daylife.com They index news sources including blogs and newspapers and other sites. You can refine the sources by the sourceIDs and hence select only newspapers for your API results. Good luck!
- nir 18y agoThat's exactly what I was thinking... Since it's all GET, a properly implemented RSS/Atom feed could go a long way towards a newspaper API, and might even be a better solution in some ways - no extra code to develop/maintain, no API key requirement, little need for documentation etc.
- Harkins 18y agoIf you work at a newspaper, any XML output of any kind is called an API and spoken of as equivalent to, say, the Amazon Associates API.