PodShow APIs

What’s a high tech company these days without APIs? Its sort of like peanut butter without chocolate.

We’ll use this page to document published and proposed APIs. We have a bunch of stuff in the works but rather than wait for the glorious 1.0 we’ll favor a release early, release often model, putting new stuff here as it becomes available and in general trying to give as much advance notice as possible.

This is also a place to work together. API design doesn’t work well in a vacuum. What kinds of data and procedure calls will help you build better apps? Blog them and point to this page, or leave a comment on our blog.

PodShow PDN (Podcast Delivery Network) Publishing API
Our Application Programming Interface (API) for the PodShow PDN allows you to create websites, services and applications that can publish podcast episodes and related data (title, description, album art, keywords, etc) to the PodShow website. Documentation and examples of this API can be found the Authoring API Page.
Podsafe Music Network Feeds
The Podsafe Music Network offers a number of data streams via RSS.

  • Songs most played on podcasts: RSS
  • Most listened to songs: RSS
  • Highest rated songs: RSS

PROPOPSED: New Features

  • Search result feeds (DSC-330)
  • Category feeds (DSC-330)
  • Per-show podplay feeds
Podcast Alley Feeds
RSS and OPML feeds for Podcast Alley at www.podcastalley.com

PROPOSAL: Channel/Subscription API
An API for displaying and managing your channels and shows from PodShow. Based on developer feedback so far, this will either be XML-RPC or REST.
PROPOSAL: Financial Information API
An API for retrieving financial information, e.g. song sales or affiliate referrals, by third party tools. For more background read this comment.

One Response to “PodShow APIs”

  1. [...] In the spirit of partying together, first and foremost we’ll participate. Participation means: tossing out our own ideas, listening to your ideas, previewing our APIs and soliciting comments, publishing our APIs, writing sample implementations and pointing to others. Send us an instant message or better yet, write something interesting that makes us think, then point us to your blog. [...]

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