API Goodies

[Nigel_James]

Craig let it slip that API's are coming later this year and since there a meet up of all the community guys coming, what would you like to see that we could mash up and down all over this read/write, web2.0, "aren't sap the greatest" website.

API's for ...

• logged in users as per the 'whos online' page

• all the points type pages ie top companies, top in forum

• business cards

That's it for starters. Over to you. What do you want to see?

[OttoGold]

Nice to know, something is being done behind the curtain. Otto

p.s.: added the link to the suggestions thread:

[Former Member]

Since I let is slip I will be more detailed BUT that does not mean they will make it into this year or exactly when.

There is a request that I submitted (one of the few I was allowed) to provide the Top Contributors and Top Companies report via RSS as well as the way they currently are.

Now if a lot of people want something like that it might help to get that request a higher priority

[martinlang]

It might be a bit embarrassingly late, but so be it. The Top Contributors RSS finally seems to be getting closer to what Craig originally intended it to be like. It was implemented a long time ago, however due to performance and other contraints, it was deployed with a limit of a max of 10 returned results for any selection and actually the selections also didn't fully work.

Craig and I talked about this a few weeks back in just since earlier this week now the function appears to be fixed.

With that if you go to the "List the contributors" page on: [http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/topcontributors|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/topcontributors] you'll find an RSS icon at the bottom right, that automatically reacts to the selection you pick on that screen. E.g. if you are interested in all contributors to the Sustaintability area for the last 6 months globally, the respective RSS URL generated looks like this:

[http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/topcontributorsrss?periodid=r180&minimumpointscount=20&areaids=ad|http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/topcontributorsrss?periodid=r180&minimumpointscount=20&areaids=ad]

Performance of the RSS feeds seems to be quite good even for larger result sets.

Can you anticipate any potential uses of this API?