NPR API Usage

By Daniel Jacobson

National Public Radio

April 13, 2010

Lifecycle of an NPR storyFrom CMS to API to Presentation Layers

NPR CMS

NPR API

NPR.org

NPR iPad/Tablet Site

NPR.org Audio Player

NPR iPhone App

NPR Mobile Site

NPR Addict iPhone App

NPR Android App

KPCC.org

WBUR.org

KQED.org

NorthCountryPublicRadio.org

iGoogle Gadget

NewsMap

Google Chrome Extension

Other Station Usage

MPR.org

Diane Rehm Show

KPCC Story Selection CMS Tool

WBUR Growth : With NPR API Content

Station Ingest

KLCC Displaying N3 Stories from NPR API

WBUR Displaying N3 Story from NPR API

Other Usage

NPR : Mix Your Own Podcast

NPR Symbian App

Yahoo! Widget

Chumby Widget

NPR and Google Maps Mashup (open sourced)

Niels Mayer Podcast Timeline

TetonCode – Story Counts by Topic

Solr Search with NPR API

Twitter Mashups

reverbiage.com

Audio Player for UNIX (KDE)

Code Libraries

Code Libraries

Perl Module

Drupal Module

Code Libraries

Ruby Code Wrapper

Code Libraries

Python Library

Metrics

NPR API : Monthly Growth of API Requests

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NPR API : Monthly Growth of Total Stories Requested

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NPR API : Distribution of Output Formats

PodcastRSS

JSON

Atom

MediaRSS

RSS

HTML

JavaScript

NPRML

NPRML 86.3%

RSS 5.8%

MediaRSS 0.7%

PodcastRSS 1.6%

JavaScript 2.6%

HTML 1.5%

JSON 0.1%

Atom 0.01%

NPR API : Total Output Format Distribution

NPR API : Monthly Distribution of Output Formats

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NPR API : Output Format Distribution per Month

NPR API : Monthly Non-NPRML Requests by Output Format

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NPR API : Non-NPRML Output Format Growth

Questions? Daniel Jacobson

djacobson@npr.org

Twitter: @daniel_jacobson

To see the API: http://www.npr.org/api

To follow the API development: http://

www.npr.org/blogs/inside