The Guardian launch Open Platform
The Guardian released their own version of the New York Times’s open API today. Supporting various languages, including PHP, it looks like a large collection of the newspaper’s back-catalogue will be available for all to search to their hearts content.
As with pretty much every other major public API, you’ll need to get an access key before you can query against the API. But once you’ve got that all you need to do to get some data back, is make a request against http://api.guardianapis.com/content/search?q={keywords}.
Appears you can request it to return XML, JSON or ATOM formats, so it’s pretty damn flexible too! I look forward to the stream of new apps that’ll be leaping to utilize this. Maybe even a Twitter/Guardian comparative mashup.
