Fluther API or other way to perform advanced searches and retreive feeds?

The Fluther API hasn’t been released yet.

It’s on it’s way. Maybe send Andrew a message of encouragement: http://www.fluther.com/users/andrew/

what does API stand for?

@La_chica_gomela Application Programming Interface. It allows remote websites, or anyone to tap into a different websites data.

We might be able to get an rss feed up sooner than the API… what are you looking for?

Couldn’t you do the output stuff relatively quickly, and then save the input and authentication stuff for later? Even just an RSS/XML feed of the questions someone has asked (and the tags and description for each) would be enough for a lot of things people want to build.

@mjoyce: By your friends, do you mean me and nikipedia? Haha.

@andrew I want to be able to watch my friends activities. So anytime they comment on, or create a question I want to know about it. In a feed, ideally. I about wrote pseudo-sql but i then realized that you know how to write a left-join. heh.

@girlofscience yes – clearly i only e-ssociate with the coolest people ever.

@andrew: jumping in here: yeah, while a full API would be nice, and would probably enable things I haven’t realized I want yet, my personal interest is mostly in watching and/or joining in conversations that my “friends” (other users I know in person or whose answers I find stimulating) have posted answers to.

Since Fluther already has the “my fluther” concept, that’s a fine way to track what I’d call my friends here.

An RSS feed seems like the least-onerous way to build what I want into Fluther. I’d be happy with any of:
* A personal feed that contains all comments by any user in my fluther; or
* a personal feed that contains all questions commented on by any user in my fluther; or
* public per-user feeds that contain all questions commented on, or all comments posted, which I can use the web interface to discover and subscribe to, for any/all users in my fluther.

Or, if it’s easier, an enhancement to the web-based search function, so that for either one user or all users in my fluther, I can find all questions in which they’ve recently posted answers. Or even if the “your fluther” link would optionally show me comments and/or questions commented on by users in my fluther, not just questions asked by them.

Thanks for listening. :)

@jasonjackson I totally agree with all points you have made here. This is exactly what I am looking for also.

Then I guess API was the word I was looking for when I asked this question!

@La_chica_gomela: Nah, a list of recent activity by a particular user on their profile would probably be better. :) An API is for other people to build websites that tap into Fluther, not really for everyday use.

But the smart ppl could do it for me, and then I could go check it out somewhere, like this website, right? or no?

@La_chica_gomela: I’ll get right on it, as soon as the API is out. :)

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