[p2pu-dev] Progress on the read-only API effort

[Jos Flores]

Hi all, just wanted to put together a bunch of notes to report
progress on the API front.

First I want to thank Ricardo (http://p2pu.org/es/rsoares/) for
offering his help and joining us in the efforts. There were a bunch of
you out there interested in helping out so if you still are, please do
get in touch.

Note: If you want to see formatted JSON in your browser you can
install JSONView (chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc
    firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/jsonview/)

Zuzel has deployed the current (in development) pre-alpha version at:
http://alpha.p2pu.org:8094/en/api/v1/?format=json

That link will give you a description of what the API can do for you.
There are four main resources right now: Badge, Project
(course/group/challenge), School, and UserProfile. You can access each
of them as follows (you can substitute 'badge' for any of the other 3
resources):

All Badges: http://alpha.p2pu.org:8094/en/api/v1/badge/?format=json
One badge with id = 1: http://alpha.p2pu.org:8094/en/api/v1/badge/1/?format=json

Links to all the docs and activities:
Trello board: https://trello.com/board/p2pu-api-process/4f4fb70ee4ba0e4f098263e9
Next Tasks are being discussed in this card:
https://trello.com/card/discuss-review-and-merging-with-zuzel-and-john/4f4fb70ee4ba0e4f098263e9/14
Current dev branch: https://github.com/josmas/lernanta/tree/api
Documentation: https://github.com/p2pu/lernanta/wiki/API-development-process
irc: #p2pu-dev on freenode

If you are not too keen on API development it would also be great if
you want to use the API as a creator; creating widgets or mobile apps
that consume data from the API would be of great help to us in terms
of getting feedback and finding out what the needs are. Most of the
things that you can learn in Jessy's challenge with the twitter API
should be applicable for the P2PU API
(http://p2pu.org/es/groups/programming-101/) so what are you waiting
for? :)

cheers,
José