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Idea #11: Make the Output API easy for humans to understand

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Written by David C the 3 Aug 09 at 15:42. Category: Publishing Plings Data. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: Awaiting moderation
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The Output API is pretty easy to understand, but if you don't speak the language of parameters, URL's and optional strings, then perhaps an interpretation layer would be useful.

I think this could be useful in a number of applications that present users with a choice of how to get their Plings
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Solution #1: Simple URL builder form
Written by David C the 3 Aug 09 at 15:42.
Take the most popular Output API options and build a form that returns a URL of your choices (e.g. number of days, town/local authority, postcode) Maybe offer some optional parameters (e.g. search date)

I would stop at the point where a URL is built cos this can then be used in a modular fashion by other applications.

So, all this needs to do for now is return a URL that could be used to get raw data.
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Solution #2: Simple URL Building Widget
Written by timd the 6 Aug 09 at 14:42.
A version of the 'Simple URL Builder Form', but implemented in Javascript in a way that made it easy to incorporate part or all of it into widgets.

Very useful for the preference pane of a Javascript widget that needs to be localised etc.

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