Open APIs

[jackycute]

Maybe can open some APIs to let third-party application to use

[janniklorenz]

At first, I just took a quick look at the project and that's exactly what I had in mind too. A simple, markdown alternative to ether pad.

To provide such an API (REST) it maybe would be the best to simplify the creation of a note. Let the server just creates the note if no one with the same name exits (like ether pad).

So we could build an URL architecture like:
/api/get/noteName
/api/write/noteName
/editor/noteName

[jackycute]

Thank you, that's a good proposal!
First, I refer to the API which now open by Hackpad
https://hackpad.com/ep/pad/static/k9bpcEeOo2Q

For now, the creation of the note is /new, which I think is simple enough.
But currently the note id policy is the UUID encoded by base64.
So the only note name I can give to you is the "header1", which is the title of the note.
And maybe I will take /api be the prefix of the APIs.

Thanks again!

[janniklorenz]

Thanks for the quick response, I will take a look at it later.

[wonderchang]

+1

[Jyny]

+1

[ToniIltanen]

Any progress on creating an API to control the creation, updating and delete of the notes?

[jackycute]

Not for now, maybe right after version 0.5.0

[jackycute]

We'll need to build a OAuth process to allow programmatic usage.
Or an easy way is give every user a pair of key and secret like Hackpad did so.