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Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "Service Unavailable for http://freeapi.daylife.com" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on November 21, 2009 20:00 to the problem "Service Unavailable for http://freeapi.daylife.com" in Daylife:

Keith

The FreeAPI has a rate limit of 5000 API calls a day. This message usually happens when you run over your limit.

The only suggestion I can give you is to look into caching the API results for longer times. If you need more than 5K API calls a day, we can talk how much it costs.

Cheers!
Vineet

Vineet Gupta posted an update in Daylife on November 16, 2009 15:57:

API version 4.0 and 4.2 have been deprecated.

API versions 4.0 and 4.2 have been deprecated. API v4.8 is the latest stable version available. Please check Release Notes for more information about different API versions.

Vineet Gupta replied on November 13, 2009 18:28 to the problem "API issues" in Daylife:

Bill,

That is true - We return an empty <article /> tag inside <payload> if we do not have data as per your query/request.

You will have to check the emptyness of that <article /> tag in your code.

Vineet
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Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "Batch docs are no longer up to date" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on November 12, 2009 17:06 to the problem "Batch docs are no longer up to date" in Daylife:

Casey,

Just so that there is no confusion - the version of Batch API is different from version of the Public API.

The version of the Batch API stays at 1.0. You are right - Public API version 4.2 has been deprecated and version 4.8 is the latest version. Apologies for the outdated documentation - has been update now on http://cookbook.daylife.com/docs/batc... and http://cookbook.daylife.com/php-call-...

Hope this makes sense. Please let us know if any further questions.

Thanks!
Vineet

Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "API issues" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on November 10, 2009 16:07 to the problem "API issues" in Daylife:

Bill,

Addressing all the 3 issues below:

Problem #1: Limit is the number of results you want back. Offset helps you paginate through the result set if the total number of results is more than your limit.

So for e.g.:

a. Limit=10, offset=0 gives me first 10 results from the total resultset
b. Limit=10, offset=20 gives me the next 10 results
c. Limit=10, offset=30 gives me the next 10 results
.. and so on.

It is important to keep the limit fixed, and increase the offset by the same value as the limit as you paginate through results.

Problem #2: That was an error in the documentation. sort=date is supposed to return you results in a reverse chronological order, i.e. newest/latest item first. Thanks for pointing out the error.

Problem #3: You are absolutely right about the Daylife API response not guaranteeing the order of elements. The API XML response is just a structured XML and we do not aim to stick to any MS standards or even stick to a schema. Something that has been on our roadmap, but just not on near horizon for now.

Vineet Gupta replied on November 10, 2009 15:58 to the question "Response Information" in Daylife:

Bill,

You are absolutely right about responses not being documented as well as the request params. We will work on that, but in the meantime can you take the pains of posting the list of response tags (and the corresponding API calls) that are not making sense to you.

Thanks!
Vineet

Vineet Gupta replied on July 09, 2009 15:49 to the question "PHP Headlines page will only work remotely" in Daylife:

John

Can you send me your accesskey? We do not block API clients based on IPs and you can use the same key across different servers. However, there is a 5000 API call limit a day with 5 query per second rate limits.

Another suggestion - there might be a difference in the software installations of the 2 servers. Esp. the PHP version of the json library for PHP if you are using our JSON response.

Let me know if this helps or I can help debug more.

thanks!
Vineet

Vineet Gupta replied on June 16, 2009 18:13 to the question "Recent Stories/Topics via the API?" in Daylife:

Brent,

We are working on the "Top Articles" and "Top Topics" API right now. Will be available in next few weeks.

However, you could potentially use source_getArticles or source_getTopics to get latest articles or topics mentioned in a set of sources. You will use a list of source IDs as an input to get a mix of articles and topics.

Let me know if this works for you or you have questions about how to filter this further.

Vineet Gupta replied on June 01, 2009 21:56 to the question "How to focus the related topics to only soccer news?" in Daylife:

Andrew,

Suggest a couple of options below to refine your related topics to be more soccer focussed:

1. Use include_topic_type=person&include_topic_type=organization with xxx_getRelatedTopics calls to get back players and teams. Places I do not believe are so useful for you.

2. You can use search_getRelatedTopics and then use query="Carlo Ancelotti" AND (football OR soccer OR goalkeeper OR offense OR defense OR UEFA OR striker OR midfielder) NOT (NFL)

3. You can use a source filter with xxx_getRelatedTopics that has Soccer focussed news. In that case, you can keep the related topics restricted to only Soccer related content.

Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "Adding to Daylife many new content sources at once" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on June 01, 2009 18:08 to the question "Adding to Daylife many new content sources at once" in Daylife:

Ed,

You can filter the results to a particular set of sources by using a "Source Filter". You first create a source filter and then apply it to the appropriate modules that you want to filter by sources.

You can create a source filter under the "Edit Content" Tab of the Select Console. Here is a quick instructional video to do so - http://vimeo.com/4421377 .

Unfortunately, you will have to add these sources one by one using the Console. There is not a mass upload feature as of yet to create relatively big source filters easily.

However, as you noticed - there will be sources that Daylife is not indexing. In that case, you can email me the list of sources at vineet@daylife.com, and if possible, links to the RSS feeds from these sources that you want us to index. We will add the feeds in our system to be indexed and be available to you for creating a Source filter.

Vineet Gupta replied on May 28, 2009 19:05 to the question "How can I add the my site header to my Daylife Select site?" in Daylife:

Ed,

Few simple steps to add your site-header to your Select site:

1. Create a Custom HTML module. You can choose it to have an iframe that loads the Header from your own server or you can paste the complete HTML of the header in this module.

Few things to keep in mind when you are creating this header:
a. ALL HTML tags must be closed properly.

b. You MUST NOT include <head>, </head>, <body> or </body> tags.

c. If you have CSS to include, include it in the Additional CSS section of the Appearance Editor tab.

d. If you have Javascript to add, include it in the input box for code that goes into the <head> of the page under the Advanced tab.

2. Once you have your site-header Custom HTML module ready, you can add it to the header of the site as follows:

Click on Edit Page tab -> Advanced Settings -> Select Header from the drop down -> Add modules -> Select your site-header customHTML module.

And you will see your site-header on all pages.

Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "How can one get access to test the Daylife API?" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on May 26, 2009 21:02 to the question "How can one get access to test the Daylife API?" in Daylife:

You can get access to test the Daylife API by signing up for an account on our Developer site.

Once you sign-up, you will receive an email with your API Credentials. The Test Key allows you upto 5000 API calls a day and you can make upto 3 queries per second.

Vineet Gupta asked a question in Daylife on May 26, 2009 20:58:

How can one get access to test the Daylife API?

Vineet Gupta set one of Vineet Gupta's replies as an official response to "What are the Source Types in the Daylife API?" in Daylife

Vineet Gupta replied on May 26, 2009 20:49 to the question "What are the Source Types in the Daylife API?" in Daylife:

The Daylife API has 4 source types.

Here is the mapping for the source type IDs that are returned with each source in the API:

1 - Mainstream news sources

2 - Blogs

4 - Government news sources

5 - Journals