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AidData's TechTools API is beta software and under active development. Email us at info@aiddata.org with questions and suggestions.

AidData TechTools v0.1β

AidData is committed to making development finance data accessible and portable. To that end, we're introducing the AidData TechTools v0.1β which a set of tools to allow normal users and web developers to interact with our data remotely. In this beta release of TechTools, we're introducing support for the OpenSearch format, an RSS subscription service to allow users to subscribe to AidData search results in their favorite feed reader, an embeddable widget to allow users to embed and interact with AidData search results on their own website, and an Application Programming Interface (API) to allow developers to interact with AidData programmatically. This software is all free.

TechTools Documentation and Examples

  • Embeddable Widget Documentation — A free javascript library, and an extension to XHTML which allows you to embed custom AidData project search results into your own web service. (Similar to how one can embed YouTube videos.)
  • Application Programing Interface (API) Documentation — A free javascript library which allows you to asynchronously query the AidData database to insert AidData development project information into any web application.
  • RSS Service Documentation — Provides the ability to subscribe to a specific custom AidData search as an RSS feed, as well as a free javascript library which allows you embed these results into any web application.
  • OpenSearch Documentation — A search results syndication platform.