NPR Launches API with Some Major Caveats

Published: July 16, 2008, 1:40 pm

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NPR today is making available to the public an API that allows anyone to mash-up, re-use, and otherwise build upon content created by the national radio network. The idea for the wide release of the API is to increase the spread of its digital material, and thus its legitimacy. So far, the public has only seen such material, be it text or audio or images, made available through its website and those of affiliate stations. As NPR explains in its overview for the new release: …you can access the API by constructing a URL with parameters indicating what stories you want the API to return. The default format of the results is NPRML, a custom XML structure specifically designed to represent all of NPR’s digital content comprehensively. The API can also return results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and through HTML and JavaScript widgets (other formats are pending). Now, as many residing within the American landscape do recognize, NPR is an American standard and

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