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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
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Create Trend Graphs using Trendrr and Daylife
April 5 2008 - 14:20 By vineetTrendrr is a service to track, compare and share data. You can track data from sources that are supported by Trendrr or you can add your own dataset. You can have multiple data sets and you can lay them on top of each other to compare these data sets. Plus, you can export your data set in a visual graph or raw data in XML, json or as an excel spreadsheet.
This recipe demos how you can use Daylife's APIs to get news coverage about any topic and then send that data to Trendrr on periodic basis using their API. The end result is a trending graph that you can share with anyone for news converage about any topic.
Below are trend graphs for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain in three different visual formats.
We have hosted a script for you to create your trendrr graphs (more details below) or download it to customize the data. Read below how you can create similar graphs using Daylife and Trendrr Services.
