What is this?
The RSSmeme API enables you pull information out of RSSmeme. All you have to do is tack on some parameters to a URL and RSSmeme will filter the correct data.
Any page on RSSmeme can be viewed as machine readable JSON. For example: http://www.rssmeme.com/?output=json shows the front page stories in JSON.
Parameters
- output - the output format. Choices are 'html', 'json', or 'atom'. If you want a feed to put in Google Reader choose 'atom'. If you are looking to build something out of the API then choose 'json' because it serves the most data (including notes).
- language - the language code ('en') of an entry.
- order_by - how the data should be ordered. Acceptable values are 'pub_date', '-pub_date', 'feed_count', or '-feed_count'.
- page - the page of data you are requesting. Every page is a maximum of 20 entries long.
- url - a specific URL you are looking for. This is very useful if you want to pull information out of RSSmeme for based on a URL. This could be used to create a Wordpress plugin that pulls notes out of RSSmeme and into the blog for instance.
JSON Callbacks
The JSON output format also lets your add an additional parameter 'callback' that will wrap the JSON in a function call to the function of your choice. This will let you use the API with JavaScript.
