NPR Releases API
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NPR unveiled its new API. An API is a way to grab content and make mashups or other neat things. API stands for Application Program Interface. Code jockeys can create widgets for blogs or Facebook apps taking advantage an archive of more than 250,000 stories going back to 1995.
NPR’s API provides a flexible, powerful way to access NPR content, including audio from most NPR programs, text, images and other web-only content from NPR and NPR member stations.
Once registered you can access the API by constructing a URL with parameters indicating what stories you want the API to return. The default format of the results is NPRML, a custom XML structure specifically designed to represent all of NPR’s digital content.
The API can also return results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and through HTML and JavaScript widgets with more result options promised.
Check it out! http://www.npr.org/api
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