Introduction to the 3taps APIs from the Open Data Hackathon, in San Francisco on 4/30/11.

1. 3taps APIs
How to Build an Awesome App

2. What is a Posting?
• A piece of data posted to the internet.
• 3taps deals with “exchange” postings:
goods, housing, services, jobs.

3. What’s in a Posting?
• Content - Heading, Body, etc
• Source, Category, Location
• Timestamp
• Misc. metadata (annotations)

4. Problems with Postings
• Too many sources and APIs
• Too many categories and locations

5. 3taps to the Rescue
• Unified APIs
• Normalized data
• Example app - http://craiggers.com

6. Accessing the APIs
• http://developers.3taps.net
• JSON web services
• Client libraries on Github @3taps

7. Search API
• Find relevant postings
• http://3taps.net/search?text=hackathon

8. Posting API
• Send postings to 3taps (see @devinfoley to
get started)
• Get detailed posting information

9. Reference API
• The codebook for normalization.
• List of sources, locations, categories and
annotations.

10. Geocoder API
• Send in a description of a location, get back
a location code and lat/lon.

11. Other APIs
• Notification API - used to send posting
notifications.
• Status API - Used to track status of
postings sent in via Posting API

12. Alternative Methods
• Yahoo Pipes
• Superfeedr

13. 3taps Stack
• Java/Scala/Groovy
• MongoDB
• Python
• Node
• PHP
• MySQL
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Solr/Lucene

14. Additional Help
• dfoley@3taps.com
• @devinfoley
• #3taps on freenode IRC