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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

New API Servers

We've been working hard at deploying our new cluster of API servers and the good news is we are almost complete.


Stay tuned for updates shortly!

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Thursday, November 09, 2006

About the TRYNT Wiktionary Related Web Service

About the TRYNT Wiktionary Translate Web Service

The TRYNT Wiktionary Translate Web Service extracts word translations from Wiktionary. Pretty self explanatory.

Here are a few examples of the web service in action:

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Popular TRYNT Web Services

A while back we posted a list of most popular web services. Back then our CAPTCHA web service was leading the back because it had been integrated into a few blogging applications. Curious which TRYNT web services are leading the back now? Here is our up to date list:

The list is suprisingly similar to our last one. Mostly a bit of shifting around. Apparently Google Pagerank just isn't as interesting as it used to be.

Attention mash-up developers! If you are consuming TRYNT web services in your application then let us know! We'll help you promote it.

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Wednesday, November 08, 2006

About the TRYNT Torrent Details Web Service

The TRYNT Torrent Details Web Service parses BitTorrent files for the included metadata.

Here is an example of this web service in action:

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Everyone loves torrents!

Sometimes I'm amazed at how ubiquitous torrents have become. Even the Amazon S3 platform offers torrent support. Since TRYNT doesn't want to be left out of all the fun we've got a torrent web service that should come out of beta today or tomorrow. Stay tuned!

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Over 250K CAPTCHAs Served

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to develop using TRYNT APIs and Web Services. Watching our traffic (and web service usage) grow over time has really been motivational for the entire team. Thanks again.

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Monday, November 06, 2006

Sixteen TRYNT Mash-ups listed at ProgrammableWeb!

We've got sixteen mash-ups listed at ProgrammableWeb that are "powered by TRYNT!" Lots of cool innovation. Keep up the good work folks - We love it!

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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Image Color Extraction Web Service - Bug Squash!

Thanks to the folks over at Open Stock Photography a bug in our TRYNT Image Color Extract Web Service. We used this as an opportunity to upgrade the web service to our new 2.0 model so you can expect to see a few web/blog updates posted shortly. In the mean time those brave souls who want to take advantage of our Serialized PHP and JSON outputs need only to point their applications to:

  • http://www.trynt.com/image-color-extract-api/v2/

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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

About the TRYNT Chinese Zodiac Web Service (v2)

The TRYNT Chinese Zodiac Web Service calculates the zodiac animal, number and description for birthdates between January 1st, 1901 to January 1st, 2021.

Like all other v2 web services offered by TRYNT you can take advantage of XML, Serialized PHP and JSON responses.

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About the TRYNT Astrology Horoscope Web Service (v2)

The TRYNT Astrology Horoscope Web Service provides daily horoscope information for any sign of the Zodiac as well as complimentary data about the sign in question. While the Month, Day and Sign are all "optional" arguments you must pass at least a Month/Day set or Sign for this web service to functional properly.

Here are a few examples of this web service in action:

Like all other v2 web services offered by TRYNT you can take advantage of XML, Serialized PHP and JSON responses.

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

API Innovation and Mashup Networks

There is a bit of very interesting reading at the Programmable Web blog titled API Innovation and Mashup Networks. In this entry you'll find links to some cool visualizations of the API/Mashup Ecosystem done by Bala Iyer and Venkat Venkatraman.

I really need to figure out why ProgrammableWeb is only listing one TRYNT API when we have fifty eight!

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

About the TRYNT Wiktionary Web Service

The TRYNT Wiktionary Web Service extracts word definitions, synonyms, related words and more from Wiktionary.

Here are a few examples of this web service in action:

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About the TRYNT Wikiquote Web Service

The TRYNT Wikiquote Web Service extracts attributed, sourced and unsourced quotations from Wikiquote.

Here are a few examples of this web service in action:

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Wiki Web Service Madness Returns

Wikipedia is an amazingly robust resource with numerous side projects covering individual niches. After reviewing a few more we've decided to implement APIs for Wiktionary and Wikiquote.

(Interested in historical Wikipedia Web Service Madness?)

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Monday, October 23, 2006

About the TRYNT TV IMDB Web Service

The TRYNT TV IMDB Web Service provides limited access to the television data at IMDB. Since IMDB does not offer an API, this API is made available to bridge the gap.

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About the TRYNT Movie Movieweb Web Service

The TRYNT Movie MovieWeb Web Service provides programatic access to a sub-set of MovieWeb data. Similar to IMDB, MovieWeb does not provide an API, this API is made available to bridge the gap. If you plan to use this API please note that the data structure for theatrical release movies is different then videos already on DVD.

Here are some examples of this web service in action:

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About the TRYNT Movie Box Office Mojo Similar Web Service

The TRYNT Movie Box Office Mojo Similar Web Service provides programatic similar movie titles using a sub-set of Box Office Mojo data. Similar to IMDB, Box Office Mojo Similar does not provide an API, this API is made available to bridge the gap.

Here are a few examples of this web service in action:


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Movie Data Madness

The TRYNT team has been working hard to add lots of fresh movie data oriented web services. Be sure to check them out!

You can expect fresh blog entries shortly for the two latest additions (Box Office Mojo and MovieWeb).

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

About the TRYNT Meta Question Suggest Web Service

The TRYNT Meta Question Suggest Web Service generates question suggestions using a variety of methodologies.

Here are some examples of this web service in action:


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