Community API

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• Community API

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Community API

• What is Community?
• User Generated Content
• Comments
• Articles
• Blogs
• Interactives
• Rate and Review
• Movies
• Travel
• Theater
• Dining
• Suggestions
• Travel

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Community API

• What APIs and why?
• What?
• Read-Only (for now)
• Recent
• Random
• By date
• By user
• By URL
• Exact match
• Partial (stem) match
• Why?
• Expanded presence
• Innovative uses
• Just the beginning

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Community API

• The basics
• Service URLs
• URL exact match
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/u
  rl/exact-match
• Partial URL match
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/u
  rl/closest-stem-match
• By date
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/b
  y-date/YYYYMMDD
• Most recent
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/r
  ecent
• Random
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/r
  andom
• By user
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/u
  ser/id/
• Most common parameters
• url (e.g. http//movies.nytimes.com/movie/357349/T
  he-Dark-Knight/overview)
• offset

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Community API

• Closest stem match
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/u
  rl/closest-stem-match.xml?urlhttp//www.nytimes.c
  om/2009/02/13/opinion/api-key

• Exact match
• http//api.nytimes.com/svc/community/v2/comments/u
  rl/exact-match.xml?urlhttp//movies.nytimes.com/m
  ovie/357349/The-Dark-Knight/overviewapi-key

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Community API

• Movies / Community API mashup
• (unreleased) Community highest rated API
• Movies details API
• Community URL exact match API

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Community API

• Article Search / Community mashup
• http//cameronkellybrown.com/mashup.cgi
• Written in Python
• (about 10 lines)
• Article Search
• Community exact match

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Community API

• The future
• Enhancements
• By user refinements
• url
• date
• URL exact match
• More sorting
• recommended
• ratings
• More filters
• Editors selections

• New APIs
• Summary listings
• By URL list
• Highest rated
• By stem
• By URL list
• By tag/label
• Write APIs?
• Submit
• Content
• Rating
• Recommendation