Google Wave API (Deprecated)

What is Google Wave?

Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where users can almost instantly communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.

For more information about Google Wave, please visit wave.google.com.

What's New

(Read & Write) Wave Data APIs

June 24, 2010

Developers can now build applications that authenticate users, and fetch or modify waves.

Anonymous (read-only) Acess for Embed

April 30, 2010

Users can now view embedded waves without logging into a Google Wave account.

Important: The Google Wave API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011 to reflect that it's no longer undergoing active development and experimentation, which is the hallmark of APIs in the Code Labs program. The Wave API will remain in service as long as Google Wave continues to run (more details). For future development, we encourage you to look at Apache Wave.

The Google Wave APIs allows developers to use, enhance, and integrate Google Wave in various ways:

Extend Google Wave

You can create extensions with robots and gadgets, to automate common tasks, improve workflow, or add a visual component to collaboration:

Create a Wave client app

You can use the Wave Data API to create alternative frontends to the Google Wave client, or build applications that can retrieve and modify a user's waves:

Use Wave on your site

You can use the Embed API to embed interactive waves on your website, or the WaveThis API to bring users from your website into Wave:

Who uses the Google Wave APIs?

Check out the featured extensions.