A Web Services API for Approver.com
I’m very excited to announce that we released the first set of Web services APIs for Approver.com this week. These APIs give you the ability to retrieve information about document status on Approver.com, including the documents you need to approve and the list of a document’s reviewers. More Web services — including read/write calls that enable you to create documents and invite reviewers programmatically — will be along soon.
If you’re a developer and you want to play with our APIs, there are three steps:
- Sign up for Approver.com if you haven’t already
- Obtain an application key for use by your application
- Review the developer documentation, particularly the authentication guide
Using the Web service APIs is free for noncommercial use. The calls themselves are RESTful (meaning you give us a URL and we give you some XML back) so they should work with any programming language and platform. We have code examples in C# for now but we’re going to see what we can do to add more later.
I should mention that we are working on a paid referral program for Approver in which we’ll pay you if you refer new users to the site who then convert into paid users. This will eventually be an open program, but as with the Web services APIs, we want to make sure we get all the details right, so for now, if you’re interested and you have a web site that generates traffic that you think might be complimentary to the Approver.com experience, drop us a line on the feedback form.
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