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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
Historical data for search_getCounts
For the search_getCounts request -- would it be possible to get historical data in one call -- checkout this call to Technorati, they give me back 180 days of count data:
http://api.technorati.com/
optionally I can pass in a "days" parameter to specify how many days back of data I want...
Would be good to get a similar call for Daylife counts. I'm thinking to turn Perspctv into a product which allows you to compare anything -- but if I do this I'll quickly run up against your API call limits..
start_time and end_time
Vineet,
All Daylife APIs accept a start_time and end_time parameter which can accept epoch values or strings and you can go back upto almost last 2.5 years (that is when we started).
e.g. for last 3 months for barack obama:
http://freeapi.daylife.com/xmlrest/publicapi/4.6/search_getCounts?query=...
-- Vineet