Comments on: Directgov unveils syndication API

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 05:36:44 +0000

Be great to see a follow up piece in 6 months with usage statistics... if this just gives the info already available on the website in a different representation - will anyone really use it ? It'd be easy enough to grab and convert the HTML if you really wanted to and it's fairly well laid out as it is.
Could see this model being good for (say) train timetables, traffic info, weather, health or many of the other sites that directgov sends you to. Not so sure about directgov itself tho'.

By: Russell Garner

Russell Garner — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:41:20 +0000

Hi Colin,

If you're talking about articles, either send the following header:

Accept: application/atom+xml

... or append ".atom" to the article URL, e.g. /id/article/DG_123.atom

You can get ATOM representations from any URL that supports them: /articles/ since, /search (provided you're only searching for articles), /id/article/{article-id}. In the latter case you'll get a feed with a single entry.

Hope this helps,

Russell

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:08:07 +0000

Any idea how I can extract the information in XML? All I'm seeing is the xhtml version.

Thx