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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
images
I am trying to get a grip on the api and up until now everything runs smoothly.
However, I would also like to get the images that accompany a story. This can be done, but it only returns thumbnails that are so small that you can hardly see them (45x45).
How do I get larger images?
arievanleyen, The image that
arievanleyen,
The image that is returned with the article also contains a <url> tag that is a link to the larger image - usually these URLs give you a 610pix (for wider pics) or 340px (for vertical pics) wide picture.
<article>
<headline type="str">Obama in Panic Mode, Flip Flops on SPR … Polls a Toss up … Rasmussen & Zogby Have McCain Ahead </headline>
<image>
<image_id type="str">0bd2cqc8OcdoQ</image_id>
<url type="str">http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bd2cqc8OcdoQ/340x.jpg</url>
<thumb_url type="str">http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bd2cqc8OcdoQ/45x45.jpg</thumb_url>
<height type="int4">150</height>
<width type="int4">150</width>
............
You can also provide a better experience by using the original <width> and <height> of the image. For e.g., the image above was originally 150x150 when it was published. You can replace the 45x45.jpg in the thumb_url by 150x150.jpg to get an image of size that it was originally published in e.g.
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0bd2cqc8OcdoQ/150x150.jpg
-- Vineet