The Lingr API is born

Today we are proud to announce a new release of Lingr that includes the new Lingr API.  The Lingr API is a simple, HTTP-based REST protocol that enables anyone to interact with, extend, and mashup Lingr in whatever wacky way they want.

You could use the  Lingr API to write an application to monitor activity in chatrooms and notify you when your friends are chatting (whoops, we already did that), to create a chat-bot that automatically responds to other chatters, or anything else you can think of.  Really, the possibilities are endless!

In conjunction with the API's release, we have also established the Lingr Developer Wiki.  There you'll find full documentation on the API, along with tutorials, sample code, and more.  Being a wiki, we  hope that Lingr API developers will add their own content and create a community where people can find interesting new Lingr API applications, as well as get help in writing their own.

Finally, we're also publishing a Ruby Lingr API toolkit in our public subversion repository, along with some sample Javascript code demonstrating how to use the Lingr API from within a web page.  Using the Ruby Lingr API toolkit, a Ruby programmer can be up and talking to our API in just a few minutes time.

We hope you enjoy the Lingr API and we're looking forward to many unexpected and wonderful applications to grow up around it!

- Danny

Comments

[atomic1fire]

I suppose one way would be a jabber lingr gateway using the api

[dburkes]

In fact someone has already written an IRC/Lingr bridge. See http://wiki.lingr.com/dev/show/Showcase for a link to it.