NPR Launches Open API, offers Widgets
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the privilege of working with Daniel Jacobson of NPR.org in developing a Flash widget that utilizes their newly-released API. The result of these efforts is the Reverbiage World Widget that plots stories on a 3d globe. The widget is written in ActionScript 3.0 using my own 3d engine currently in development.
NPR, National Public Radio, has just released a new API that opens up 13 years of content for use in online mashups and widgets. The API offers customizable data feeds in many different formats, and is very customizable. The content that is avaiable is far greater than the basic RSS-style digest format. Full story text and images are available as well as the audio of the story in various formats. The API offers queries based on topic, program, series and individual search terms. Check out the API and their current offering of widgets.
