I want to access multiple Web forums by using one API

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I want to access multiple Web forums, Is there any one API or third party API by using that I can access all web forums. For example I want to access (nationstates, steampowered, simplemachines, StackOverFlow) these forums and many more forums. Is there any way to access by using one API?

Posted 28-Jan-15 0:59am

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Praveen Kumar Upadhyay 28-Jan-15 7:05am

You can use RSS feed

Member 9893793 28-Jan-15 7:32am

Please elaborate it.

Actually I am working on a project, where we need to access multiple Web Forums, I need a Generic way by using that I can get the User Data and Posts. For example these forums (nationstates, steampowered, simplemachines, StackOverFlow) provide their Api. So it is difficult to write 4 Methods for all these Forums. If in future my client says please add two more forums in this project then I will write 2 more Method for that API's.

Therefore I want a Generic way, By using that I can implement multiple web forums Api by using one method.

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ZurdoDev · Answer 1 · 2015-01-28T01:44:00

Solution 1

No, every forum will have it's own API. You can google to see if someone has written one that will work with several of the forums but I've never heard of one.

Posted 28-Jan-15 1:44am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 2 · 2015-01-28T02:36:00

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The only "generic" way to get all of these posts is if the forums let you subscribe to an RSS feed. The RSS feed is a standardized XML file format that you can parse to get the data. But, that's only if the forums offer a feed.

There is no generic API to use with all forums.

Posted 28-Jan-15 2:36am

Dave Kreskowiak