Application Programmer Interface

If you’ve read any of my blog I’m going to assume your a technical person and know what an API is. For those few who don’t it’s a way for programmers to tie their application into a provider and use any services that provider may allow. For example, all of the phone based Twitter applications tie into Twitter via their API. This allows the application to post, view, edit, and delete messages and all the other nifty things that Twitter allows. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve decided to incorporate a public API into Blitzaroo. Those of you with the technical prowess will be able to tie your website (or other application) into Blitzaroo with an easy to use RESTful API. I will be providing JSON and possibly XML if the demand is high enough.

For example,

http://www.blitzaroo.com/api/guilds will return a JSON/XML list of guilds along with all pertinent data. http://www.blitzaroo.com/api/guilds/view/ will return detailed information on that guild. The API will have similar interfaces for every facet of Blitzaroo including events, signups, character management, etc. This will, in theory, allow a third party to run a complete game management system from their own application or website. Nifty, eh?