Jyte API


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Groups API

Jyte groups expose two api methods:

is_member
This methods tests whether an OpenID belongs to a group. Response is plain text and will either be 'true', 'false', or 'error:message'. Full API URL is available at the bottom of every group page, and is of the format:
http://jyte.com/api/group/GROUP/is_member?openid=URLENCODE(openid)

roster
This method returns a plain text, newline separated list OpenID identifiers that are members of the group. Specific API roster URLs are available at the bottom of your group's page, and are of the format:
http://jyte.com/api/group/GROUP/roster


Contacts API

Contact lists are available via an API, and like groups are useful for "social whitelisting" applications. Two methods are exposed, both of which accept an optional tag parameter. Use the tag parameter to filter for contacts of a certain type like 'family' or 'friend'. Also, you may pass in primary=true for the methods to use only the contact's primary OpenID. If primary is not specified, the methods will use all of a contact's verified identifiers.

is_member
This methods tests whether an OpenID belongs to one of a user's Jyte contacts. Response is plain text and will either be 'true', 'false', or 'error:message'. Full API URL is available at the bottom of a user's contacts page, and is of the format:
http://jyte.com/api/contacts/is_member?openid=URLENCODE(openid)&contact_openid=URLENCODE(contact_openid)

roster
This method returns a plain text, newline separated list of OpenID identifiers that are the specified OpenID's contacts. Specific API roster URLs are available at the bottom of a user's contacts page, and are of the format:
http://jyte.com/api/contacts/roster?openid=URLENCODE(openid)


Cred API

A full API for interacting with live cred data is on the way.

Interested in the cred graph data? Download our nightly graph data, which is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license.

API FAQ

What is URLENCODE?
This syntax means that the parameter needs to be URL escaped when building your API URL. This generally means that URL specific and other characters need to be percent escaped. Some examples: