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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.
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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
Is it possible to just get latest world news without "searching"
I have a feeling I've seen this answered before, but is it possible to just get latest world news without "searching" for something.
I'm creating a small fun app but having to have the user type a search query in would be a bit of a pain with the app I'm planning. I know you can hardwire that query but all I want really is just the top news stories?
I've searched the docs and can't find how to do this?
Thanks,
Bren.
Joint Search Query or the Source APIs
Bren,
We do not have "Top Stories" API yet but it is certainly on our roadmap as other developers have asked for it before.
However, there are workarounds to get a top list of news:
a) If your application is specific to a particular subject matter, you can form a query that joins multiple terms using the OR operator and hits the Search APIs. For e.g., if I am building an app in social media, I can form a query that looks like:
Facebook OR Myspace OR Opensocial OR (Social AND (media OR network*))
b) If you have a list of sources that you believe produce content very relevant to your application, you can use our SourceAPIs to get a list of articles published by those sources. For e.g., if you are building a business widget, you can use The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, BusinessWeek and business oriented sources like them as input to for the Source APIs.
Another example of it is built using a similar concept - http://cookbook.daylife.com/big-pharma-news ..
Hope this helps.
-- Vineet
which source does 'limit' work on?
I would get back 6 articles from The Washington Post and none from The New York times. Is there a way to balance the limit over both so I get 3 articles from each source?
limit is not source specific
Bren
The source API requests with multiple sources as input return you results which are chronologically sorted and the limit applies to results overall and is not source specific.
If you want 6 articles per source, you should make 2 API calls for each. You can also use our Batch API to combine the 2 calls into one request.
Thanks!
Vineet
fabulous stuff - sourceAPI's
fabulous stuff - sourceAPI's looks like the way to go.
Thanks.
Bren.