Open Hack NYC - Yahoo - Oct 2009

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Founded in 1851 – original price one cent Largest metro newspaper in the U.S. 101 Pulitzer Prizes 11 national bureaus and 26 foreign bureaus 1904 - moved to Long Acre Square

That’s us!

Core Purpose

Core Purpose
Enhance society by creating , collecting and distributing high quality news, information and entertainment.

APIs NY State Legislature member and committee info. Times Tags NYT standardized terms TimesPeople profile and activity data Movie Reviews reviews, summaries, critics’ picks Campaign Finance campaign contribution & expenditure data Congressional Votes voting and member info. Article Search 1981 to now, facets, metadata TimesWire up-to-the-minute links and metadata Real Estate aggregate listings and sales data Community user-generated comments Bestsellers rankings, lists, reviews

http://developer.nytimes.com

http://open.nytimes.com

Let’s Build Something
Grab a TimesPeople user’s network recommendations and sync them to InstaPaper

TimesPeople

Goal
Grab my network’s recommendations and sync them to InstaPaper

TimesPeople API
Retrieve Users
Profile
Activities
Newsfeed
Followers
Following
User Lookup
MD5 hash of e-mail

User Lookup
http://api.nytimes.com/svc/timespeople/api/
v1/user/2eaf32ad1f520768c2ff97c9689fb94c/
id.xml?api-key=####

Get the User’s Newsfeed
http://api.nytimes.com/svc/timespeople/api/
v1/user/ 52396025 /newsfeed.xml?api-key=####

YQL for User Lookup

insert into yql.storage.admin (value) values ('foo');

YQL for User’s Newsfeed

YQL for InstaPaper

On to the Code…

Execute YQL

Lookup User ID

Get Newsfeed

Filter, Uniq, Count & Sort Recommendations

Insert Into InstaPaper

Big Slide of Code - Review

Resources
Code - http://github.com/derekg/ TimesPeople-InstaPaper-Sync
Demo - http://tp-ip-sync.appspot.com

More Coding Fun
Article Search API
Facets: The Hidden Secret

NYT Article Trender

APIs NY State Legislature member and committee info. Times Tags NYT standardized terms TimesPeople profile and activity data Movie Reviews reviews, summaries, critics’ picks Campaign Finance campaign contribution & expenditure data Congressional Votes voting and member info. Article Search 1981 to now, facets, metadata TimesWire up-to-the-minute links and metadata Real Estate aggregate listings and sales data Community user-generated comments Bestsellers rankings, lists, reviews

And now for the totally useless

And now for the totally useless MJ + News

And now for the totally useless MJ + News
Echo Nest API + TimesWire API + Code
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The Worst Podcast Ever

The APIs http://developer.nytimes.com The blog http://open.nytimes.com

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Open Hack NYC - Yahoo - Oct 2009

by Derek Gottfrid on Oct 10, 2009

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