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Ohloh API and Python

Ohloh is a website which provides a web services suite and online community platform that aims to map the landscape of open source software development. The Ohloh API is a free, REST-based programming interface to the Ohloh open source directory. You can use the Ohloh API to create your own applications and web services based on Ohloh data. There’s a Python example client and additional examples are available for Java, Ruby, Bash, Perl, PHP and C++.

I decided to create a simple AMF gateway using PyAMF that pulls the account data from Ohloh and then passes it to a Flex application. The reason I use a AMF gateway is because I don’t want to hardcode and expose my API key in the Flex client application, which could be decompiled easily, allowing others to abuse my key.

You can test their API by entering the emailaddress of a registered Ohloh user in the input text-field below, click Submit, and it will display the user’s general account info and load the user’s avatar.

You can browse or download the source from the Subversion repository. You can find instructions on how to run the example yourself on the wiki page.

Thanks to Robin Luckey for putting up a crossdomain policy file on the site which makes it possible to use the Ohloh API from Flash and Flex applications.

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2 Responses to “Ohloh API and Python”

  1. PyAMF blog » Blog Archive » PyAMF 0.3.1 Released Says:
    May 4th, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    [...] You can try some of the PyAMF examples for GAE on our appspot like the Interactive Python shell example and the PUnit tool to run the PyAMF unit tests on GAE using a web interface. We also added an Ohloh API example. [...]

  2. PyAMF 0.3.1 Released « outaTiME Says:
    May 5th, 2008 at 1:05 am

    [...] You can try some of the PyAMF examples for GAE on our appspot like the Interactive Python shell example and the PUnit tool to run the PyAMF unit tests on GAE using a web interface. We also added an Ohloh API example. [...]

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