The ABCs of MetaBroadcast APIs

Tom McAdam, CTO, talks about how MetaBroadcast build usable APIs

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1. The s of usable APIs at MetaBroadcast
2. • Atlas • Voila • Engage Our APIs • Sylvester • Canary • Coyote • Helios • Yuri External Internal
3. ll the data • Common use cases covered in single call
4. revity • Annotations control data returned • none • description, extended_description • sub_items • upcoming_subitems_detail • Content merging • Personalisation • region filtering
5. onsistency /1.0/content? id=cf2&annotations=description,subscriptions, my_actions /1.0/schedule/bbcone-london? from=2013-09-19T18:30:00Z&to=2013-09-19T19:00:00 Z&annotations=description,broadcasts,extended_de scription,subscriptions,my_actions
6. • Annotations and filters • 3.0: people • 4.0: content.people • JSONP, pagination and other features supported throughout • Meta API onsistency
7. peed (and reliability) • Helping slow clients: CORS • Faster back-end servers • Disposable and scalable application servers • Make every request succeed
9. Image attribution • Title page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardayyy/4793995249/ • Our APIs • Sylvester - http://arichy.deviantart.com/art/Silvester-216496901 • Canary - http://www.flickr.com/photos/vblibrary/4643083810/ • Helios - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helios,_British_Museum_No._2108.JPG • Alphabet letters: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/3131, http://www.morguefile.com/archive/ display/3073, http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/3170, http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/ 3154, http://www.morguefile.com/archive/display/3092 • Speed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/5wa/6516778965/