The open Yabot API allows any developer to take advantage of the vast amount of aggregated news stories available with Yabot. If also has procedures for signing in, adding comments and working with the private news selections.

The API calls can be made from any platform/programming language. Please refer to the API examples page for user submitted code.

Each API call require data to be sent to the Yabot servers in order to get something back. The returned data is available in three different formats so you can use the format you think is best for your solution. Returned content available in:

• Text, CSV
• XML
• JSon (coming soon)

Calling the open Yabot API can be done with either a GET or a POST. Depending on what kind of result you want you can call the API with different parameters. You can use the API to retrieve:

1. Standard news stories from one Yabot edition (incl. a search on keywords)
2. The open/published news for a user's news selection
3. News stories from an authenticated Yabot user's news selection
4. Adding private comments
5. Publishing or Unpublishing a private news story

Each API call must always contain the OPEN element with the value set to:

1. for result in TEXT (semi-colon separated)
2. for result in XML
3. for result in JSon