The FanFeedr Product Blog

Today we are excited to announce the release of the next version of the FanFeedr API.

Highlights of this release:

• Performance Improvements
• Related Entities
• Live Scores
• Standings
• Game Details
• Hot Info
• Local Data
• Updated Documentation

Getting Started

API v1 documentation has been uploaded to the developer portal. The URL structure for the v1 release will require changing API calls to include v1/ prior to the query string, e.g. http://api.fanfeedr.com/basic/v1/resource_feed/mlb/ny-yankees/?appid={AppID}

We will continue to support the original version of our API, but will not be adding additional features to that version. Therefore, we encourage you to migrate over to the new version of our API.

Performance Improvements

• Standardized call formatting and responses
• Additional output formats, including HTML and RSS
• Improved performance of API calls via fine tuning of application code
• Appended additional information to the datasets returned with the resource_feed. The resource_feed now shows you what entities are tagged in an article. Users can specify a particular resource and parse out the results in a more fine grained manner according to what’s in the article.

Related Entities

This call returns related entities mapping as follows:

League -> conferences, divisions, teams

Conference -> divisions, teams

Division -> teams

Teams -> players

Live Scores

By popular demand, in game scores. Supports multiple resources.

Standings

Returns standings for leagues, conferences, divisions, or teams.

Game Details

game_details – extended information for a particular game including live progress, events, and FeedItems about the game.

games_on_date – for any given date, get a list of all games.

latest_game – the latest game for a team, league, list of teams, or list of leagues.

Hot_

hot_topics – returns a list of the hottest teams and players over the past hour, each with the hottest article related to that team or player.

hot_blogs – returns a list of the hottest blogs over the past hour, each with the hottest article published by that blog.

Local_

local_teams – provides a list of professional and college teams within a radius around a given latitude/longitude.

local_news – shortcut to the resource feed for all teams returned by local_teams call.

local_ scoreboard – shortcut for getting the latest events for all teams returned by local_teams call.

Updated Documentation

In response to comments from developers, we have updated and reorganized our documentation. We will be adding call results examples shortly. We plan to add client libraries in the next couple of weeks.

We welcome any additional comments you have regarding the documentation currently listed on the developer portal.

The FanFeedr API Team

Special thanks to our engineers Doug Tabuchi, Andy Adams, and Chris Sabanty for their contributions to this release.

API Roadmap

We are already planning for our next release and evaluating potential new features. If you have an idea for a new feature, please submit a post in the forums under Feature Requests. We will keep you updated on development news through our Announcements forum thread, blog posts, email, and Twitter.

We appreciate the feedback that we’ve received from our developer ecosystem and look forward to supporting your projects. Fostering a rich development community is a key priority for our company, and we have several initiatives planned over the next few months to strengthen our relationship. Over 325 developers have registered API keys, and we will strive to provide you with the most robust set of tools and resources for your projects.

If you have any questions or comments about the API v1 release or any other matter, please contact me directly at benn@fanfeedr.com. Again, thank you for being part of the FanFeedr community, and we look forward to continued collaboration.

Happy coding,

Benn, on behalf of the FanFeedr API Team