Andres Ferrate, July 8th, 2008 Comments(3)

Tangler, an online network of discussion forums, recently announced their new API. The Tangler service takes traditional discussion forums to a new level, by allowing anyone to easily set up a discussion forum that can grow to include hundreds of topics and thousands of users. Tangler forums include the ability to embed video, “real-time” discussions, and social networking. There’s even an instant desktop notifier application that alerts users whenever a new message is posted to a particular topic.

Tangler Forum

We’ve added a new Tangler API profile with more details.

The Tangler API is a RESTful API that supports nine calls for content from Tangler, including:

Get all topics in a forum
Get all messages in a topic
Get all (public) forums for a user
List popular topics in a forum
List popular topics in a forum according to the limit specified
List topics in a forum according to the Time Value specified
List topics in a forum according to the author
List messages in a Topic according to the Time Value specified
List all messages created by the supplied user

Be sure to check out the complete API documentation as well as Tangler Developer’s Forum (which, of course, uses Tangler). Also note that Tangler supports RSS feeds for its discussion forums, so it’s possible to subscribe to discussion threads as well without use of the API.

On a similar note, see the the Webride API, which allows users to embed and start discussions on a variety of web pages.