About the Cookbook
The Daylife Cookbook is a collection of recipes to help you bootstrap applications that use the Daylife platform (DayPI).
These recipes come from Daylifers and the cookbook community, with entries ranging from sample code to tutorials, half baked ideas, and spotlights of the latest deployments of the DayPI.
Feel free to share, steal, criticize, applaud, and feed back!
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Testimonials
Daylife is a perfect fit for our strategy of presenting the best and most tightly focused content, whether it is produced by us at USA TODAY or anywhere else on the Web. It helps us provide our readers with a full 360-degree view of a given topic, and adds depth and richness to niche areas important to our readers and advertisers.- Jeff Webber, SVP, USAToday.com
You guys have what seems like an amazingly powerful and easy to use API, we're pretty excited about playing with it and possibly integrating it with Hubdub. - Tom Griffith, Hubdub.com
It's amazing how simple this is to integrate into django. When a view is creating a page, it just calls a thin wrapper function that I put around the daypi module. - Bracket Boy
I found the Daylife API for PHP really easy to use, and coded something up quickly for my site, Brooklyn and Beyond - Brooklyn & Beyond
This tool makes it really easy to get a quick look or dive in deep thanks to our partner Daylife, who built a comprehensive service that yields up-to-the-minute results - The Washington Post
I was trying to make it work by using Google News RSS feeds but turned out impossible since they don't organize their data in the feeds. I now know its possible with the Daylife API - Akash Xavier
API Status Return Codes
By john
The DayPI call responses include codes indicating success or failure as well as a message with some explanation or helpful tip in cases of failure. Here is the current list of response/error codes and messages:
| 2001 | Success |
| 2002 | Success (Serving cached results.) |
| -2001 | Invalid API Credentials |
| -2002 | Invalid input id |
| -2003 | Date start_time is in an invalid format. Please use "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss" or an epoch value |
| -2004 | Invalid date range [%(start)s, %(end)s]. Start date cannot be earlier than the end date |
| -2005 | No search query term was provided |
| -2006 | Source filter ID is invalid |
| -2007 | Invalid topic id provided in the "speaker_topic_id" parameter. |
| -2008 | Topic Not found in system |
| -2009 | Invalid value "%(error_value)s" for field "%(error_field)s |
| -2011 | Found multiple values for parameter "%(error_field)s". Only one instance of this parameter is permitted |