In hopes of shedding some light on how to get started creating custom data sets with the Trendrr API we will be posting a series of examples. One of our best and brightest web developers (jonb) has authored a few examples of leveraging our API via PHP.

The first example shows how you can pull Facebook event stats into Trendrr as a custom data set. Jonb's newest example uses data from the Folding@Home distributed computing project as the source for the custom data set.

Both examples are a good place to start getting familiar with our API. Also don't forget to check out the bragging rights forum for examples posted by other users. As always you can get all the docs about the API from the API section of the developer portal.

Last but not least don't forget that the first 10 subscribers to post examples to the bragging rights forum will have their Trendrr query limit doubled.

happy coding,
Matt

To celebrate the launch of our new developer portal and beta API we are going to be awarding 20 extra queries to each of the first 10 developers to who submit API examples* to the Bragging Rights forum. So break out your text editors and lets see what you can do. You can read more about what can be done with the API in our API docs section.

happy coding,
-Matt

* silly 2 line apps that really don't do anything don't count

One of our constant challenges here at the trendrr labs is figuring out new and inventive ways of culling metrics out of the sites we track. All to often sites have no feasible way of communicating their community and content statistics. Or if they do it's published in a format that was never intended to be syndicated. Often we end up using api functions that were never meant to provide statistical info. For instance to get a member count we will request all the members info and then count the return size. As you might imagine this approach is very wasteful in terms of overhead for both the publishing site and our systems.

So with this in mind we started working on a xml schema that would allow sites to easily publish metrics about their communities and content. So without further ado we give you our newest open source schema project from team trendrr.

MSS (http://developer.trendrr.com/mss)

We are releasing this schema under creative commons in hopes that sites out there will pick up on the idea. In the spirit of practicing what we preach, we will be implementing MSS feeds across trendrr in the near future. Check out the schema and a few examples in our docs section. We will also be expanding the schema docs in the weeks to come.

-Matt

We've been working hard on the new api. The first revision is done and ready to use. The previous restful interface for adding data will still work, but is deprecated. I think you will find the new api simple and powerful. It is currently in beta so please let us know if anything doesn't work as expected (or if the docs are confusing). I can't wait to see what you guys come up with, so please post your apps on the forum.

Docs here: http://developer.trendrr.com/api/

-Dustin

Welcome to the new Trendrr developer portal. We are setting this area up so people who are working with the Trendrr API will have somewhere to go to get more technical info. This will be the place to look for info about things like our API, our open source data schema projects, example apps and more. Also you can now register for our new developer forums to talk about what there working on and much more. So keep checking back as we will be dumping a bunch of content into the portal over the next few weeks.