I can has API? A Love Story

I can has API? A love story Cal Henderson

flickr.com /services /api

The end! Any questions?

Cal Henderson Oh hai

(This one is me) Cal Henderson

Flickr!

Ludicorp

Vancouver Canada

Vancouver (Not part of America) Canada

London England

Game Never Ending

Game Never Ending (Now Ended)

Virtual online world thingy

In stunning 2D!

Carry things!

A micro economy

Where do I fit in?

No APIs

HTTP Sniffable Discoverable

gnespy.com Also GNExus, etc

Flickr?

Games take money

GNE was slow Nodeservice Not modular – argh!

Make some money Fast!

Then we can get back to the game Lies!

Flickr!

APIs

APIs Army of Robots

Application Programming Interface

Feeds vs APIs

Feeds architecture Flickr Brain Templating RDF Atom RSS

RSS Feeds architecture Flickr Brain Templating RDF Atom CSV SQL CDF PHP YAML JSON

flickr.com /services /feeds

Why bother providing feeds?

Simple Just like web pages

Not just for nerds?

(Well, sort of)

Cheaper than ‘ push’

Less push these days

Besides games

Comet Flash Java Sockets

Push Less bandwidth Less computing

Push Immediate Fast

Push Producer must know about consumers

Pull Bandwidth & Processing (cache stuff)

Pull Asynchronous Slow

Pull Allows for adhoc consumers

API architecture Flickr Brain Request Response

Von Neuman? Process Input Output

flickr.com /services /api

Open? Or public?

API Explorer (Built for us)

Authentication The problem

Authentication The revenge!

Don’t share passwords!

Tokens, Frobs & Mini-Frobs

Advantages?

Push identity to flickr

Operate on private data

Write!

Why have an API?

Unit testing

Empower Developers (Army of monkeys)

All the cool kids..

Flickr as Platform

Facebook

Mutually Beneficial

Doesn’t come for free

Bandwidth Processing Storage

Abuse (Stupidity)

Support

API Kits PHP Perl ActionScript

API Kits PHP Perl ActionScript ColdFusion LISP cUrl Delphi Java .NET Python BASIC Ruby

What’s special about flixor?

Public by default

Creative Commons

Improve?

More methods? ~100 public

More formats? Feeds Requests Responses

Push?

The future..?

Flickr on Flickr

Rich Integration

Photo credits

http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/109584042/

http://flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/153327729/

http://flickr.com/photos/stewart/175271684/

http://flickr.com/photos/hustlerofculture/104996715/

http://flickr.com/photos/kirksiang/185374339/

http://flickr.com/photos/jonsie/254419011/

http://flickr.com/photos/24342028@N00/216035211/

http://flickr.com/photos/yhassy/254837345/

http://flickr.com/photos/ch/110731841/

http://flickr.com/photos/andrewcoulterenright/9205611/

http://flickr.com/photos/spike55151/18285051/

http://flickr.com/photos/sepulture/164151196/

http://flickr.com/photos/curiouskiwi/45667526/

http://flickr.com/photos/andidfl/199832851/

http://flickr.com/photos/santos/27538777/

http://flickr.com/photos/beejjorgensen/12372792/

http://flickr.com/photos/jaxxon/16914729/

http://flickr.com/photos/holgalomaniac/50597465/

http://flickr.com/photos/mbernet/72441466/

Photo credits cont…

http://flickr.com/photos/ccgd/64767879/

http://flickr.com/photos/olivander/58499153/

http://flickr.com/photos/thijsjacobs/90522778/

http://flickr.com/photos/quiplash/47545024/

http://flickr.com/photos/su-chan/157487686/

http://flickr.com/photos/gabrielm3/182987412/

http://flickr.com/photos/mr_mt_02/167611123/

http://flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/120229489/

http://flickr.com/photos/helenpalsson/196006913/

http://flickr.com/photos/shutupyourface/222616352/

http://flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/82272917/

http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/111795102/

http://flickr.com/photos/santos/96977613/

http://flickr.com/photos/bunchofpants/24767283/

http://flickr.com/photos/kaptainkobold/83359336/

http://flickr.com/photos/momo0379/93207810/

http://flickr.com/photos/processblack/67107439/

http://flickr.com/photos/pscafe/79504379/

http://flickr.com/photos/sergio_one/116015471/

http://flickr.com/photos/intvgene/370973576/

http://flickr.com/photos/josstyk/248920216/

http://flickr.com/photos/ratterrell/267850875/

http://flickr.com/photos/borghetti/43058749/

http://flickr.com/photos/snowriderguy/37343192/

http://flickr.com/photos/pandarine/3443396/

http://flickr.com/photos/tedreese/192952089/

http://flickr.com/photos/r80o/1583381/

http://flickr.com/photos/drydenrenegade/35882847/

http://flickr.com/photos/difusa/135964682/

http://flickr.com/photos/avalonstar/52276678/

http://flickr.com/photos/hiromy/199767366/

http://flickr.com/photos/reneeanddolan/47927688/

http://flickr.com/photos/jeffbelmonte/8228640/

http://flickr.com/photos/tim_d/245116574/

http://flickr.com/photos/wiseacre/153532248/

http://flickr.com/photos/bees/543501526/

http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/182191565/

http://flickr.com/photos/baboon/162579094/

http://flickr.com/photos/bright/15332404/

http://flickr.com/photos/tracylee/415291546/

http://flickr.com/photos/vidiot/69075298/

http://flickr.com/photos/piper/22584430/

http://flickr.com/photos/monster/432466087/

http://flickr.com/photos/drewvigal/58837009/

http://flickr.com/photos/drewvigal/58837009/

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