2012/UK/Hosted API

Hosted API

A brainstorming session during IndieWebCampUK 2012.

Archived from:

• https://etherpad.mozilla.org/indieweb-hostedapi

2012-253 The Engine room / The Skiff

Discussion Leaders:

• Aral Balkan (@aral)
• Glenn Jones (@glennjones)
• Ketan
• ...

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HostedAPI Solution group etherpad

The idea of this session is to work out how a package of self hosted tools, that can be installed easy by any new indie web creator/ site owner.

This suite of pre-packaged tools, will allow for syndicating to third part websites via a plugin architecture, this allows for features such as:

• Syndicate third party social status updates
• Storage of content-types locally with a good structure
• Allow development of new 'plugins'
• Make it easy to create shortened URLs to content
• Work out an API REST-Like URL format to allow for transmission of content.
• Discussion of how Clients (Mobile Web/Native Client/Web Browser) can post to an indie web site.

Aral - presenting the Continuous Client

Dropbox

iCloud/Dropbox as a solution

• Interim Storage
• Glen
• Dropbox Bookmark
• Bookmarks
• How can you search, should each bookmark be stored as a singular entitiy

Web Mobile UI Client

Ketan

/** My notes: 
/* Web UI
/* Mobile Client
/* Web Client
/* 
(scripts to post)

PULL Systems

• scripts to pull RSS/ API calls
• Format for canonical data storage
• Content Types (formats / schemas for storage ) ref: microformats
• Plugins to allow syndication
• Push Systems

PubSubHubub

PubSubHubub described in a minute by Tantek

Common Storage Formats

• Photos
• Status Updates
  • Network dependant
• Bookmarks
• Comments
• Contacts
• Recipes
• Third Party Quantified Self Data (example Fitbit data stored locally)

(microformats?)

Using HTML and human readable formats that can be Machine readable as well.

Query APIs

• Twitter
• Facebook
• ADN
• Bookmarks