There should be a Jyte API for making claims.

This would be cool, if we could find a way to avoid spam.

That's just a null answer. There's nothing stopping people from adding spam now. Having an API would just let them add spam really fast.

There are plenty of things to do to stop spam on Jyte. A spammer will usually try to add a single URL multiple times or a family of related URLs. It should be relatively easy to add spam URL patterns to a regexp blacklist, and then block claims that include URLs that match regexps on that list.

Banning particular users (and retrospectively revoking their claims) would also be useful.

Finally, some kind of claim throttling would work, too. Say, only allow up to 100 claims per hour or something like that. Or double the time between claims for each successive claim.

What's holding back this feature?

I guess this is because OpenID authentication in HTTP API-s is not that great yet http://openid.net/wiki/index.php/OpenIDHTTPAuth

Giving out API keys like most other sites do would work though, but would not be that elegant.

Perhaps Jyte could allow only users with certain cred levels an API key.

There's no easy way to spam your cred up, right?

Setup a few shell accounts, you can get your cred up really fast I think.

I don't know if you could. I'm too lazy to try it though.

This needs to happen now.

Seventeen months and counting...