Application Programming Interfaces

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

Lumerias.com embraces collaboration and the social web. We propagate the use of open standards and open source software. In part, Lumerias.com is also built on top of open source components. Thus we encourage our users to use Lumerias.com's data feeds and build fascinating applications and useful widgets.

RSS

RSS is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication, a web content syndication format. Using a feed reader software application or a similar web-based news aggregator like Bloglines or Google Reader it possible to subscribe to specific Lumerias.com video search results just like to blog feeds. This way there is no need to search Lumerias over and over again. Your feed reader will conveniently remember seen results and alert you when new results are available.

• Example: Subscribe to the RSS results feed for 'dog'

OpenSearch Standard

The OpenSearch Standard was propagated and invented by A9.com, Inc., an Amazon.com company. It enables special aggregator websites and software clients to transparently query search-engines. For example, using the plug-in below lets you search for videos from the search bar in the upper-right corner of OpenSearch compatible browsers like Firefox 2.x.

• Install Lumerias plug-in now (Mozilla Firefox 2.0+, IE7, OpenSearch Version)
• Install Lumerias plug-in (auto-detect)
• or view the OpenSearch description document in XML.

Sherlock Standard

Sherlock is an application developed by Apple Computer Inc. for the Mac OS X operating system. It enables users to get relevant information by providing channels of data. Lumerias supports the Sherlock format, as it enables some non OpenSearch enabled browsers (like Mozilla Firefox 1.5+) to install search plug-ins.

• Install Lumerias plug-in now (Apple Sherlock, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+ Version)
• Search Plug-In Auto-Detect Install
• or view the Sherlock .src file.

Commercial Webservice

Through XML and Perl-Storable, Lumerias.com enables individual website owners and partnering website businesses to enhance their existing web pages and add a rich video meta-search tool to their site. After an easy integration in your backend (via XML-RPC) or even easier directly into your pages (via embedded frames), you present your visitors with the option to search for videos using Lumerias.com's expertise in online video retrieval.

Available as webservice in
• XML over XML-RPC
• Storable over XML-RPC

If you would like to license our commercial webservices and leverage the power of Lumerias.com's APIs then contact us at: licensing [at] lumerias.com.