PostRank

The latest PostRank API library was released recently by Declan Whelan. He commented on some personal education goals he had in completing the exercise:

AideRSS provides a service that ranks online content such as RSS feeds, blog posts and so on. I have always been impressed with AideRSS and wanted to educate myself with writing REST interface logic, ASP.Net and Web 2.0 in general. AideRSS also provides a PostRank API to their service so I decided to write a .NET client wrapper for this API to make it easier to use.

A great addition to our API library. Thanks, Declan!

We’re big fans of JQuery at AideRSS - it makes Javascript a fun language to work with (after years of painful experiences)! A great example of which is Alf Eaton’s recent blog post about creating a custom AideRSS Top Posts widget with JQuery. Instead of using our default widget, Alf shows how to interface with our top posts API and create a custom styled list of stories.

The latest PostRank API library was released to beta yesterday by Dan Sinclair for Ruby. He’s looking for feedback so if you can please grab the gem from github and give it a whirl.

I’ve created a Ruby wrapper around the API that people will hopefully find useful. I’ve currently tagged it as a 0.5 beta release until I can get some feedback on if the API is right for other people as well. (Plus, I know I want to change the Exception handling at some point so there will be changes before a 1.0.)

You can grab the postrank-0.5.gem or install it through the GitHub gem server by entering:

gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
sudo gem install dj2-postrank

Or, if you want to can grab the code from GitHub and build it yourself.

If you find any problems, have any suggestions or patches, you can file them on the LightHouse project page.

Another well done library for PostRank API - w00t!

Thanks to Ash Christopher for the latest client library for the PostRank API in Python!

What is PostRank Python API and what does it do?

This is an api accessor for python that allows a developer to quickly access all of the services offered by PostRank. It is loosely modeled after Mike Verdone’s Python Twitter Tools in that it is simple to use, and it uses the same arguments as those documented on the PostRank API page.

This is a nice addition to the growing list of community provided PostRank API libraries.

Thanks Ash!

Working on a C# application and thinking of integration our new PostRank API? Well, now it’s easier than ever thanks to William Spaetzel (thanks Will!):

With today’s announcements of the updated PostRank API and PostRank.com, I felt that it was time that I finish up and release the .NET PostRank Library that I built for CastRoller.

The library is a simple wrapper for all of the PostRank API calls. Usage is pretty simple, and I’ve included a sample program to get you started.

To get started, you can download the library directly from Will’s website, or from our Developers page on postrank.com.