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Thursday, March 19, 2009

NPR's programs "Day to Day" and "News & Notes" will be broadcasting their final shows on Friday, March 20, 2009. Although the programs will no longer be producing new shows, the entire archive for both of these shows will still be available on NPR.org and through the API. Eventually, we will likely remove these programs from the API Query Generator, although their IDs will still be valid in the API and can be found in the API Mapping Index.

API queries that use these program IDs will not return any new content after this Friday. The IDs, however, will remain valid, so your applications should continue to work as expected.

Finally, to access the full archives of these programs in the API, you can use the functions available in the Control tab of the Query Generator. These functions include searches based on search terms and date ranges and allow for the ability to paginate through the results.

Please let us know if anything unexpected happens as a result of this change.
--Daniel Jacobson

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3:26 - March 19, 2009

 
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

As mentioned in Zach's previous post, I will be part of a panel at SXSW. The panel discussion will be on APIs, is called "Get Me Rewrite! Developing APIs and the Changing Face of News", and is on Sunday at 3:30pm. For more information on the panel, go to the SXSW page for this panel.

The panel moderator is Jacob Harris, from The New York Times. Joining the discussion will be Brad Stenger from Wired, and John Donovan from Daylife.

We will have a substantial time set aside for Q&A although prior to the Q&A we will be addressing many of the challenges in producing and maintaining APIs. That said, there are myriad things we can focus on when discussing APIs...

So, please let us know what is most on your mind. What kinds of questions do you want this panel to answer? Are you interested in technical background, business goals, legal issues, getting corporate buy-in, the marketplace for APIs, etc.? We will be using this feedback to refine our topics accordingly as we finish preparing for the session.

--Daniel Jacobson

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9:46 - March 11, 2009

 

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