kaChing’s API Developer Garage Event, 2/21
Over the weekend of Feb. 21st, kaChing was kind enough to open their doors to developers, market professionals, and armchair fund managers alike, inviting all over Facebook and other social sites to take a sneak peek at the API they’ve been developing, enjoy some East Coast-style pizza, and develop the applications they hope will bring even more would-be financial visionaries into the fold. Over the past few months, they’ve been building an API that mimics the functionality already available over Myspace, Facebook, and their own site, the varied nature of their platform giving them a clear head start. As is evident from documentation—the Design Guidelines going into such detail as type covariance—they’ve spent a lot of time and effort making the process of developing a kaChing-capable app as straightforward and easy as possible. The API itself is a RESTful one, returning JSON objects explained in the Wiki, and is complemented by a Java client exposing their own domain model, and a Javascript library, mandatory for use in browsers due to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) constraints.
Photos from the kaChing Garage Event
In addition to the functionality provided by the API directly, we’ve partnered with kaChing to provide access to Fundamentals, Financials, Historical and Split/Dividend data via Splice to users of the kaChing API at no charge. Just sign up for a kaChing API key, and…you’re done! As always, Splice is free to create custom mashups of Web Services, so it’s easy to sign up for other trial services and create an even more empowered application. At the time of writing, there’s only one third-party application published to their App Directory, so there’s still time to develop a great first-mover app powered by kaChing and Xignite for your favorite platform. Get rolling!
Related links:
- Photos from the Garage Event
- Directory of kaChing API Apps
- kaChing/Xignite Registration Information
- kaChing API Wiki
- API Google Group
- kaChing Main site