For a while now I've been working on exposing some of the data in BoardGameGeek via an XML interface. While it is far from finished, and may never be, it's in a useful enough form that I've officially announced the BoardGameGeek XML API. Right now it provides access to game information, game searching, and collection information. I'm very interested in what sorts of interesting things people may build with it.
On the topic of other websites I contribute to, it's worth mentioning Best of Board Games, a boardgame link aggregation blog, essentially meant to be the successor to Alfred Wallace's now-discontinued "Best of the Blogosphere" feature. It was started by Gameblogger Mikko Saari and includes Alfred, Iain and me as other regular contributors. It's a nice blog to have and I'm glad to be able to contribute. To tie the two together, Mikko decided to note the BGG XML API as a best of the web feature. Enjoy.
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Matthew Gray
matthew@gray.org
I am a father, board gamer and software engineer.
Matthew Graymatthew@gray.org
I am a father, board gamer and software engineer.
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In addition to my blog (this page), you can find me on BoardGameGeek, Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, FriendFeed, and various other places. I also have a slightly stale homepage.Personal
I am an avid board gamer. I am one of the (volunteer) admins of BoardGameGeek, maintainer of the GameStoreDB, board game blogger, and gaming software geek.Professional
I am a staff software engineer at Google. Previously, I was the CTO at an 802.11 location and security company, Newbury Networks in Boston. In June, 1999 I received my Masters degree from the MIT Media Lab. I graduated from MIT (undergraduate) in June, 1997, in physics. Prior to that I was CTO of net.Genesis from 1994 to 1996.While at MIT, I was one of the three members of the Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) who set up www.mit.edu in the spring of 1993. I am also a former/inactive member of the Apache group, a volunteer group of developers of Apache, the world's most popular web server.
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
BoardGameGeek XML API
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