Announcing the first release of Dopplr’s API
It’s a bit rough around the edges, but our new API is now ready for intrepid hackers to play with. Via the API you can do nearly anything you can do via the website: add trips, find cities and query information from your network of fellow travellers.
For authentication we use a similar system to Google’s AuthSub - so similar that some Dopplr API implementations are based on existing Google wrappers. We’ve contributed a Ruby wrapper, and developer friends like Simon Wistow (who had early access) have contributed Perl and PHP versions. Data comes in XML and JSON flavours, and documentation is a work-in-progress on the Dopplr Developer Wiki. Feel free to add notes to the wiki, or link to your own projects. Send us plenty of feedback and we’ll help you get your apps on the road.
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It works nicely, thanks. Can we add our requests to the wiki (under TODO perhaps)?
I’m adding trips from an external source. It would be nice to set the note on the Dopplr trip with an expllanation from where it came from.
The add_trip_note method should let you add notes to trips:
http://dopplr.pbwiki.com/method:add_trip_note
Ok. Cool. Will use that. And I corrected the description on the wiki.
Hi there. I am trying to make a little Twitter/Dopplr mashup, and would like to use the users’ homepages (if available), but they are not available in the API. Can it be made available?