How to add an API feature from Particletree

Here is another interesting piece of reading from Particletree, How to Add an API to your Web Service by Ryan Campbell.

"You can always add, but you can never remove" is, as Ryan says, the Holy Grail of API/Web Service creation.

Learning PHP

While lots of people are talking about Ruby on Rails, Perl and Python these days we still have to stick by our old standby PHP. It's amazing how fast you can design and deploy a website using PHP with an application framework like Odin Assemble or CakePHP and thanks to free educational resources like Wikibooks > Programming PHP it's easy to start learning.

MovieReviewr mentioned at MOMB

The folks at the Museum of Modern Beta (MoMB) have been kind enough to list our MovieReviewr property. Thanks MoMB!

About the TRYNT Astrology Horoscope Web Service

The TRYNT Astrology Horoscope Web Service provides daily horoscope information for any sign of the Zodiac.

"Even though your time is completely your own right now, there is no time to waste. Just because you don't feel pressure from outside forces does not mean that the speed at which you travel effects only you. Other folks are depending on you to put your best foot forward and fight for your perspective. They want you to value how you feel about yourself, if for no other reason than it makes you happier -- and more pleasant to be with. You are supported."

Update: TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service

We've updated our TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service > Search function. The result is more search results returned per query. A good example is the search "Terminator," historically we returned three results, now we are returning thirty seven. While it may seem like a lot of results, we promise we'll still pre-sort them for based on our perception of the best match.

Update: MovieReviewr

Remember MovieReviewr? Well we've made a few updates, MovieReviewr is now taking advantage of our new TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service to integrate even more useful information. We hope you enjoy!

About the TRYNT PDF Web Service

The TRYNT PDF Web Service is a url based PDF creation service. Easily author PDF documents using common HTML as your source. Please note that PDF documents should be downloaded immediately after creation because they will be regularly purged.

The following example PDF was generated using the TRYNT PDF Web Service.

Ning + TRYNT Movie APIs = Movie Data

We've just finished our second Ning application: Movie Data. Movie Data is an AJAX "movie search engine" mash-up that blends Amazon, IMDB, Ning and TRYNT web services together.

Does this make better use of the Ning PHP API? Nope - Not really. We have been working on a Ning based app that does make better use of the Ning PHP API, Mentio.ning, but its not ready for public consumption just yet.

About the TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service

The TRYNT Movie IMDB Web Service provides programatic access to a sub-set of IMDB data. While the IMDB is a very useful data-set (you can even download your own copy!) it lacks an API. This API was developed to bridge the gap.

This web service provides two methods. The first method helps dentifies exact movie titles and corresponding IMDB movie ids from a user supplied movie title string or sub-string. Here are a few examples:

• "Dazed and Confused"
• "Terminator"
  

You'll notice on the second example we return all three terminator movies. The resulting XML includes what we percieve is the "best match" as well as all possible matches with scoring data.

Once the correct film and corresponding IMDB movie id has been found you can use the second method to fetch IMDB movie data.

• "Dazed and Confused"
• "Terminator"
  

About the TRYNT Movie Comments Web Service

The TRYNT Movie Comments Web Service provides programatic access to a "movie comments." We extract these comments from data provided by Google and Yahoo.

This web service was previously released in beta and has now become public.

About the TRYNT Image Nudity Web Service

The TRYNT Image Nudity Web Service helps you identify images that may contain nudity. This web service currently works with true color GIF, JPG and PNG images.

New APIs!

We've just released two brand new APIs and one previously in beta. That makes twenty seven unique web services that you can use free of charge.

About the Body Mass Index Web Service

The TRYNT Body Mass Index Web Service calculates a BMI value for any given height and weight. You can submit your height and weight in metric or standard units.

You can see the web service in action here using my personal data.

Great use of our new iCalendar API!

We're always impressed when a developer snaps up a new API and quickly develops something new using it. A great example of this is the new My Timelines > Create an iCalendar Timeline. The guys at Odin have used our new TRYNT iCalendar Details API and combined it with there existing My Timelines system to extend its functionality. Very Cool!

23 Web Services!

TRYNT is now offering twenty three (23) free web services!

About the TRYNT iCalendar Details Web Service

TRYNT iCalendar Details Web Service

The TRYNT iCalendar (iCal) Details Web Service converts virtually any valid iCalendar file into a useful XML data structure. File location and MD5 values are also provided.

The following is an example of the web service in action parsing a sans.org iCalendar file.

About the TRYNT Password Security Web Service

The TRYNT Password Security Web Service is designed to maintain password security. While user supplied passwords are notoriously insecure there are a number of factors that contribute. The TRYNT Password Security Web Service can verify password strength through eight unique tests:

• Dictionary Check
• Length Check
• Heterogeneity Check
• Blacklisted Word Check
• Blacklisted Character Check
• Phonetic Check
• Similarity Check
• Superset/Subset Check

In addition to verifying password strength the TRYNT Password Security Web Service can also generate strong passwords between 8-20 characters long.