Announcing the Google Sidewiki API
Alongside the exciting release of
Google
Sidewiki today, we're also happy to announce the availability of the first version
of the Google Sidewiki Data API. Google Sidewiki is a new feature of Google Toolbar (for
Firefox and Internet Explorer) that lets everyone contribute helpful information next to any
webpage. Our
post over on the Google Blog goes into more detail and also
has a
video that shows Sidewiki in action. To start using it yourself, go
to
google.com/sidewiki and install Google
Toolbar with Sidewiki.
On the developer side, we're releasing a Google
Sidewiki Data API today that lets you work freely with the content that's created in Google
Sidewiki. You can use it to retrieve all entries written about a particular webpage as well as
all entries written by a given Sidewiki author.
So after you've played
with Sidewiki in the browser, give it a whirl in your console too -- we have
client libraries,
documentation and
code samples ready to go for you. We'll be excited to see what gadgets,
projects and extensions you'll think of. A
translation
gadget that displays and translates Sidewiki entries on the fly? A
Google App
Engine-powered browser of all Sidewiki entries? Your own browser extension or
Greasemonkey script?
The
Google Sidewiki
API is available in
Google Code Labs and is read-only at the moment. We've
set up a developer-oriented
discussion group and
issue tracker where you can discuss your experiences with
the API and where we'd love to hear about your feedback and projects. Keep us posted!
By Roman
Shuvaev, Google Sidewiki engineer
