We've developed a suite of application programming interfaces for Blip designed to make it incredibly easy to build applications that use portions of our advanced media management, transcoding, distribution and advertising functionality.
Our API is documented in detail on the Blip wiki, which is password protected. The username and password to access the wiki are in the authentication prompt – we're just using them to deter spambots.
The Blip API can return data in a variety of formats, including RSS, JSON and our own XML. By delivering responses in a variety of formats, the Blip API makes it easy to do incredibly powerful things.
Getting a headstart is always nice, too. Several Blip engineers and a few fans have dedicated their time to a few open-source libraries. Currently, we bless the folowing:
If you have been working on a home-rolled library in a language we don't offer, please send an email to api@blip.com. We're more than happy to add it to our list! We prefer our libraries to be hosted on Github. Also, please feel free to improve the existing libraries!
Folks are building Blip support into their sites, services and software. Here are some examples.
From time to time we write little utilities that help us run Blip. We try to release these as open source software as much as possible, as long as they aren't part of our "secret sauce."
We've been extremely fortune to be able to build Blip on top of some fantastic open source software. Tons of thanks to the guys who built the software referenced below... we couldn't have built Blip without their fanatical support.
