For me, the data store is the more interesting bit.
edit: I should probably clarify why. While I'm a big fan of supporting accessible content, providing what is essentially a public service for a large number of statistics, especially when they're relevant to news stories, is going to be awesome.
Ever see a chart somewhere and have more questions about the data? Hopefully their data store will allow you to be able to answer those questions.
Tried posting a comment on Simon's blog but it wasn't working. So here you go Simon:
This is an amazing product - not just because of the technology, but the implications for the future of news. In fact, I think this is much bigger than the NYT API launch that some people are comparing it to. Just wanted to say congratulations!
Advantages over the NYTimes article search api is The Guardian provides full article text and allows you to use the content on your site/app alongside your own advertising.
Disadvantage is it seems to have less structures metadata than the NYT (from what I can see currently).
I'm looking forward to most newspapers having apis letting you correlate coverage across multiple sources (hopefully with a consistent interface)
We have a nod towards a consistent interface in the Guardian API in that we offer an Atom output format - it's pretty basic at the moment, but we're looking for community feedback to help us make the Atom version really useful.
Just applied for an API key. Any chance you can shepherd my application along through the process?
Also, this is 100x more interesting than the NYTimes API, simply because I can access full stories. And the lack of meta data is fine for the moment, so long as there's some fairly accurate tagging system in place, which appears to be the case.
Can someone clarify - does it mean that using the API I can get Guardian content, like a whole article for example, show it on my website and display my own ads around it? If so, that is quite a big step forward amounting to copylefting their content.
It's not exactly copylefting - the T&Cs still won't let you modify the content or redistribute it further - but yes, you are allowed to republish the article body (although it's hard to do so at the moment due to the omission of paragraph breaks, which we're working to fix).
If you just show our headlines, you won't be asked to display our ads. If you opt to publish our article bodies we reserve the right to ask you to include our ads some time in the future.
What about the 24 hours rule? I don't see the point of publishing news for 24 hours - links to the article on our site after we remove it won't work, for example. Are we supposed to query your API each day for each article or something like that?
edit: I should probably clarify why. While I'm a big fan of supporting accessible content, providing what is essentially a public service for a large number of statistics, especially when they're relevant to news stories, is going to be awesome.
Ever see a chart somewhere and have more questions about the data? Hopefully their data store will allow you to be able to answer those questions.