Spongecell API Documentation

Introduction

Spongecell has an extensive REST API which communicates in XML only.

Here are some examples of sites that have integrated Spongecell's capabilities via our API:

Link to site	Description
CNN 'Live' site	CNN uses Spongecell as an events database. They access our API using custom Javascript to create an AJAX events feed.
Lilaguide.com	Lilaguide is an online community of parents with children. They also use Spongecell as an events database. Their site is programmed in ASP, and they have written custom code (using the reference documentation presented in these pages) to extract the information from our database and display it on their site.

Tutorial

We have a getting started tutorial which steps you through getting started with the API at a very basic level.

Reference Documentation

If you already understand RESTful APIs, you'll still probably need to learn about authenticating to our API (this is a tricky area where there are often application specific differences).

Once you are up to speed, our reference documentation will explain the details.

Our Ruby plugin can help you develop much more quickly, if you program in Ruby. Unfortunately at this time we do not have plugins for other languages.