Muti API implemented in Afrigator

Last night Neville released a first draft of a REST API for Muti! POX, just as I like it… So I’m quite privileged and honoured to be one of the first to have an implementation of the API. Where better than Afrigator?

If you visit a blog author’s page, and this user has done the necessary changes to his profile, you would see it in action below the blog posts and podcasts. It shows basically the following details:

1. User’s Muti username
2. User’s total number of submissions
3. User’s total amount of Kudus earned
4. The last 10 links muti’d with the following details with the date, kudus, link and title.

Click here to see mine implemented : http://afrigator.com/author/14

I used MyWebShots for the thumbnails as I thought it would round it off nicely!

So if you would like to activate this on Afrigator, simply log in and go to the dashboard. Click on the “Edit your profile” button.

At the bottom of that form, there is a field for your Muti username. Enter your username over at Muti in there and save it.

Bang, thats it! If you visit your profile page (You can do it by clicking on your blog name in the main dashboard page) you should fine your Muti details there.

The XML specification is plain and simple at the moment. There are bound to be a couple of changes, but for now, this is how it looks and how it works:

All you need to do is to send an REST request to http://muti.co.za/api/userinfo/{name-of-user}
For example, here is the request to see my Muti stuff: http://muti.co.za/api/userinfo/stii

This will return some XML which you can then use to do what you please with:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<user>
	<submissions>316</submissions>
	<kudus>500</kudus>
	<link>
		<title>The title of the latest post</title>
		<url>http://somesite.com/link-to-post</url>
		<date>2008-02-08T03:26Z</date> <!-- Date & Time post was submitted -->
		<votes>12</votes> <!-- Number of votes to date -->
	</link>
	<link>
		<title>The title of the second last post</title>
		<url>http://othersite.com/link-to-post2</url>
		<date>2008-02-08T03:26Z</date> <!-- Date & Time post was submitted -->
		<votes>12</votes> <!-- Number of votes to date -->
	</link>
</user>

Now all you need to do is to parse that bit of XML and Bob’s your uncle!

Thanks to Neville for making this possible!

Next up: Zoopy!

5 Comments to "Muti API implemented in Afrigator"

• Tyler said: On 02/08/2008 at 7:28 am

  Awesome Stii! Nice one!

• Stii said: On 02/08/2008 at 8:42 am

  Thanx dude!

• Jason said: On 02/08/2008 at 7:31 pm

  Good one Stii, let’s make it happen! Shoot me a mail and we can talk next week

• South African said: On 02/09/2008 at 6:09 am

  Awesome, Stii, just set mine up. Great to see the ‘gator just getting better and better.

• Stii said: On 02/09/2008 at 5:29 pm

  @Jason you can count on that!

  Thank you @SouthAfrican!

Spit it out!

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