Subscribeco.mments API
Hurry!
The co.mments API is finally out. Feels like giving birth to a child.
Right now you can use it to manage the conversations you are tracking. All the UI features are available in the API.
I’ll be adding more features in the future, this is just the first release.
It’s also an early release, I just put it out yesterday and I’m still testing it. So you can expect some minor changes. In fact, if you have any feedback, post it here. I’d love to know what you think and what I can do to improve it.
There’s no documentation, that’s also something I’m working on.
But it’s RESTful, and it does XML, JSON and HTML, which means it’s not hard to figure out. In fact, you can try it from your browser right now. Play with it and I’m sure you’ll figure it out.
Posted by Assaf in General on Tuesday, July 18th, 2006. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
sull
July 18th, 2006 at 5:21 am
excellent, assaf.
thanks for opening it up!
sull
July 21st, 2006 at 6:08 am
the http://co.mments.com/api/tracking is currently protected.
Assaf
July 21st, 2006 at 8:33 am
The API uses HTTP authentication, so the browser pops up a username/password dialog, not the login form. Your username/password will work.
singpolyma
June 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
One thing I’m still waiting on is a proper scrAPI (http://blog.co.mments.com/2006/02/28/scrapi/) (http://blog.co.mments.com/2006/06/19/comments-whats-missing/) — it would be really great to be able to just ask co.mments for a feed of comments on a particular page and then use that in my app
Assaf
July 4th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
The API lets you request content as either JSON, XML or HTML. And the HTML straight XOXO with just enough annotation to make it easy to grab a tracking list, list of comments, etc.
Best, you can try it from the browser and view source to see what it looks like. There’s nothing excessive in the API HTML, it really is designed strictly for scraping!