FanFeedr Developer Blog

We're excited to announce the release of the next version of our API!

Key Features

We wrote about some of the planned changes in our last blog post, but here are the highlights:

• This version of our API is completely RESTful
• Available resources represent a collection of members, each now associated with an UUID
• Sports resources are divided into an inheritance structure -  to obtain information about a specific resource, users must query the ‘parent’ resources
• The only supported format for this API is JSON

BETA Version

We've labeled this version as BETA because we plan to make changes over the next few weeks based on internal evaluations and user feedback. 

Information contained in API v1 has been migrated to this version and is fully accessible.

Plans and Rate Limits

Based on our analysis of API usage and developer feedback, we have made a few changes to our plans. 

For our Basic free plan, we have reduced the number of calls allocated to 25 per hour. We're confident that this rate limit will meet user needs, based on current and expected use cases.

Developers needing higher rate limits may sign up for a new Bronze plan. This plan has a daily rate limit of 2400 calls and is economically priced at $25 per month. 

We will continue to study our rate limits and plans and make any adjustments as needed to sufficiently serve our ecosystem.

Deprecation

With this API release, we will now have 3 live versions of our API. All future development will focus on the new version of the API.

In order to best allocate our resources, we have decided to full deprecate our APIs v0 and v1. Access to these APIs will be turned off on August 1, 2011.

We will provide support through forums and IRC to help users migrate to the new API.

Portal Upgrades

We have completely rewritten our documentation but plan to take over management of our developer portal in the next few weeks from our hosted provider.

Some items we will be rolling out as part of an integrated set of tools:

• A new design
• API test console
• Status monitoring tool
• Issues tracker
• Interactive Q&A forums

The FanFeedr API Team

Special thanks to our engineering team of Jonathan Stasiak, Andy Adams, and Chris Sabanty for their contributions to this release.

API Roadmap

We already have some features planned for future release relating to authentication methods, adding content and data for additional sports, and providing new supported formats.  Please let us know your thoughts on our new API by posting to our forum or contacting us via Twitter. We appreciate the feedback that we’ve received from our ecosystem and look forward to supporting your projects. 

If you have any questions or comments about this release or any other matter, please contact me directly at benn@fanfeedr.com. Thank you for being part of the FanFeedr community, and we look forward to continued collaboration.

Cheers,

Benn, on behalf of the FanFeedr API Team