Atom API Querying Examples
Base URL for all API requests*1
Atom Endpoints for Fetching data (GET)*
Examples
| Network Specific | http://networkurl |
| *1 use https:// and HTTP Basic Authentication for any operation for which you want to retrieve private data; this operation can only be made by the network owner | |
Atom Endpoints for Fetching data (GET)*
| /content(C) |
Returns a feed of content entries. |
| /content(C)/rollup(R) | Returns a feed of <xn:rollup /> elements describing content rolled-up as indicated by R. |
| /application |
Returns a feed containing an <entry /> describing the current application, if that application exists. |
| /profile(P) |
Returns a feed of profiles matching selector P |
| /content(C)/tag |
Returns a feed of tags for content matching selector C. |
| /tag(T)/content |
Returns a feed of content tagged with tags matching selector T. |
| /tag(T)/rollup(R) | Returns a feed of <xn:rollup /> elements describing tags against all content in the approlled up by frequency. |
| * application parenting (clones) and roles stystem related endpoints not listed for summarization purposes check the complete list at http://lear.ning.com/old-documentation/app/sections/rest.php | |
Examples
| Basic account information for the user of id david on Network Creators http://networkcreators.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/profile(id='david') |
| Information of the user profile*1 of the member of id david on Network Creators http://networkcreators.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type='User'&author='david') |
| Basic account information for the user of id david on Network Creators in JSON format http://networkcreators.ning.com/xn/rest/1.0/profile:david |
| List of friends of the user of id david on Network Creators in JSON format http://networkcreators.ning.com/xn/rest/1.0/profile:david/contact(relationship='friend') |
| The 100 most recent public contents*2 (of any type) on the Developer Network http://developer.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content?order=published@D |
| The 10 most viewed photos on Brooklyn Art Project http://brooklynartproject.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type='Photo')?order=my.viewCount@D&from=0&to=10 |
| The 10 most voted photos tagged with brooklynbattle on Brooklyn Art Project http://brooklynartproject.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/tag(value='brooklynbattle')/content(type='Photo')?order=my.ratingCount@D&from=0&to=10 |
| The 5 most commented forum topics in Network Creators of all time http://networkcreators.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type='Topic'&my.xg_forum_commentCount>1)?order=my.xg_forum_commentCount@D&from=0&to=5 |
| The first 5 forum topics of Jetset Show http://jetsetshow.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type='Topic')?order=published@A&from=0&to=5 |
| The number of Users on the Developer Network (check the value of <xn:rollup key="User"> ) http://developer.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content/rollup(field='type') |
| Friends of a specific user by Ning ID: http://yar.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type%20eic%20%27User%27&author%20in%20friends(%27NING_ID%27))?from=0&to=100 |
| The number of content objects on the Developer Network by author http://developer.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content/rollup(field='author') |
| *1: currently, if the network contains private questions the user profile information is private *2: forum replies, and comments are currently private by default, so they will not show up on results unless you are authenticated as the network owner |
| Profile objects for multiple ning accounts using the in operator https://www.ning.com/xn/rest/2.0/profile(email%20in%20%5B'john@example.com.com','joe@example.com','bob@example.com'%5D) |
| All photos created after 2008-06-30 and before 2008-07-02 http://examplenetwork.ning.com/xn/atom/1.0/content(type eic 'Photo'&createdDate < 2008-07-02T00:00:00Z&createdDate > 2008-06-30T00:00:00Z) |
Last updated by Mike Nicholson Aug 12.
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