Does Boards have a public API?

dvpower

Quick question.

Does Boards.ie have a publicly accessable API to allow developers develop third party apps that use boards data, similar to what Facebook and Twitter do?

Boards.ie: Danny

Hi there,

We have an API all right, but it isn't publicly accessible. If it ever becomes open I'm sure there'll be a big announcement about it

Danny

Boards.ie: Paddy

It's an ongoing question whether or not we make our API available to the public.

Can I ask what you were considering doing with the API?

dvpower

Boards.ie: Paddy wrote: »

It's an ongoing question whether or not we make our API available to the public.

Can I ask what you were considering doing with the API?

Nothing really concrete at the moment.

I was thinking about how at the moment there are plenty of apps that will aggregate content from my various (social) channels e.g. FB and Twitter and bring this together in one data feed for me to review.
But what about the threads I'm subscribed to on boards - why can't I see the posts in my aggregated view of the messages I'm interested in reading?
[For example, this thread. I can get a single email when there is a new post on it, but I'd like to see all of these posts integrated with my 'social media feed'].

punk_one82

Hi, Sorry to bring up an old thread but I'm wondering if this API is ever going to be made public? Thinking of working on a personal project and getting my followed threads from boards is something I'd be looking at doing.

Dav

Not for the foreseeable future I'm afraid.