ChaCha API with PHP

ChaCha API with PHP

February 16, 2010 1 Comment

ChaCha has finally released an API for their Question and Answer service (documentation here). Personally, I have been waiting for years to get my hands on this data, and today I am happy to share this PHP Class for accessing both questions/answers and trending topics. You will need to register for an API, but the [...]

LinkedIn Profile API – Unofficial and 100% Open Source

December 11, 2008 15 Comments

Presenting the open source PHP LinkedIn Public Profile API, released under the GNU
How does it work?
This PHP Class (requires php5) imports a users LinkedIn public profile (by supplying their public profile username) and turns the results in to a simple XML document.
You can see my example at http://brandonshead.com/work/linkedinProfile/profile.php
How do you use it?
Inside you will [...]

Unofficial LinkedIn Profile API

June 09, 2008 3 Comments

I have been foaming at the mouth since I read this post about a LinkedIn API. (For the none techie – an API gives you the ability to grab information from LinkedIn and pull that data in to another website, plus a whole lot more). However, so far LinkedIn has yet to deliver anything I can use.