Current behavior:
There are no APIs available to access Wild Apricot data/functionality from an external system

Desired behavior:
Make APIs available

Notes:
The biggest question is: what specific APIs? They can not be developed in abstract - we need to target integration with specific system or at least a specific type of integration. So our first step is to collect more feedback from you:

• What other systems you would like to integrated with Wild Apricot via API?
• What API calls do you need?

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi,

I would be very interested for such an API for the elearning solution called "Moodle".

Here, it should be the authentication module that need to be done. Moodle provides class and method that can be instantiate by developpers to create their own module.

As I'm not specialist in this, I give you here a link to the documentation on authentication API from moodle website that describe all calls mandatory and optional:

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Authentication_API.

If you need tester, just tell me!

 Thanks and best regards

 

Hey there Chief, 

I have dropped the WA widgets in our Ning.com powered site with the goal of creating a paid membership area. I'm fairly happy with the results. However, I would love to be able to create a single login widget that allows us to have one sign-in box but have select, paying members, access our WA hosted VIP content.

Ning has a great API, though it is limited in the ability to create new accounts. However, we could make this work if WA had an API that allowed us to 1. Compare a user logged on Ning to our WA user database 2. Be returned a variable about WA member status, active, inactive, etc. 3. Set the WA account to have the same username and password as their Ning account. 4. Be able to add and remove paid event information to the WA account, based upon Ning data.

We are really eager to make this integration and offer it to our clients via our site, Ningpros.com, as a white label solution.

Any advice you can offer would be great. 

Best regards,

Maxie D. Collier 

 

Maxie,

Thanks for the details. We would defintely take this under consideration as we plan our API work.

Realistically though, we have our hands full with other stuff in the development queue and we would not be able to do anything like this at least for 6 months. Even then,we would probably start with more generic APIs which cane be used by many people vs. building a specific API you have described.

 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Moving to wishlist for now - we need much more definition on this before we can consider planning it for development.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Other Systems: Quickbooks Merchant Services, identi.ca/laconi.ca, Ning, Elgg 

API Calls: RESTful JSON and/or XML API's for getting/setting any and all data regarding members and events.  Would (hopefully) require HTTPS and unique API key tied to connecting host for security.

 Really like the look of WA.  Ability to poll the system in real-time for accounting and data-backup purposes would be the tipping point for some clients of mine.
 

When Wild Apricot does not offer a specific feature, providing a way to access Member Data for those organizations who can build forms or features themselves would be nice to have.

For example: Our HOA would like to implement a "Submit Violation" form which auto captures who is logged in so we can track who submits voliation reports.

This can be done in multiple ways.

1. The first suggestion would be to provide a new "Functional Page" which adds a database field on the URL, so if we implement an IFrame, the URL has the unique identifier so the system out side Wild Apricot would be able to pick up that value and run with it.

2. A second option is to do something simular, but expose web services so outside applications can make calls into Wild Apricot to pull out database fields. Again, using iframe.

 

Would like to have basic integration points which allow WildApricot to exchange (push) event data to our backend system and vice-versa.

The more details you could provide, the more we would appreciate it - and the sooner we can consider this in more depth.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I am constructing a page for use on one of the sites I manage at Wild Apricot.  The page will contain an image map with numerous areas.  Each area represents a resource that is either available, or in use by a member.  The resources reserved are identified in a member data field.  I would like to use AJAX techniques to lookup member data from the onMouseOver event.  A database API allowing ODBC, XML, or another standard access would be useful here.

My (horrible) workaround, for the moment, will be to export the membership data and reformat the useful data into a JSON file.  That file will be pre-loaded in JavaScript object(s) for use in the onMouseOver code.

As the resource data will change somewhat each day, any dynamic access to the data would be better than my planned approach.  A hidden page, for instance, with membership data in tabular or XML format could be used.

Please provide the API or a workaround at your earliest convenience.

Check if this help page might be of use:

 http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Using+Google+Maps+to+plot+member+locations

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Thank you, your post may be useful.

Would you please provide documentation of "MemberDirectoryWebService.asmx" and its parameters?

Sorry, no, this is not intended or external use for the moment.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We have decided to focus this thread on API for adding/reading contact and member records.

If you need other APIs, please search/create separate threads. 

 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We've identified this as one of the Top 50 items we plan to develop in 2010.

Keep tuned to this thread for updates!

Also, please note that for the first version of the API we will only be developing the ability to read from Wild Apricot.  Future versions will offer more functionality.

A read only API to access member accounts for verification/login to external services would be great!

What I would like to do is use Wild Apricot as the authentication source for a Drupal content management system.

 So ideally, WA could provide a web service that I could post a username and password to and it would return true or false if the user is authenticated. Better still, it could return a JSON / XML object with userid, full_name, email, paid_until, member_since etc.

 

  

 

 

The link (that was in various forum posts about Google Maps integration) to the old  Google Maps API v2 script (for inserting a map into a page on WA) has been removed by WA. 

I would appreciate an update as soon as possible to enable WA to interface with the newish Google Maps API v3 - and ideally a script incorporating adding member directory data into an array for rapid marker upload using various plugins (e.g. see Marker Clusterer).

Thanks

Phil Swallow

I have been told the link http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Using+Google+Maps+to+plot+member+locations has been taken down because the Google Maps API has changed - I am hoping a new script will be available soon.

Phil

Phil, what we had was not a real API but more of a proof of concept thing so unfortunately we can't commit to when we might have a new one. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Hi Dmitry

That's a pity. For a CMS that focuses closely on its member directory capability, being able to locate those members on a map seems to me a good selling point.  I hope it gets some attention soon.

Thanks

Phil

petern:

What I would like to do is use Wild Apricot as the authentication source...

 So ideally, WA could provide a web service that I could post a username and password to and it would return true or false if the user is authenticated. Better still, it could return a JSON / XML object with userid, full_name, email, paid_until, member_since etc.

We could also really use this function.

  

 

 

we would like an API feature in order to implement an self hosted zip code proximity lookup tool and mapping of members in the member database. 

 

We would want access to at least name, membership status, address, zip code and a return URL to go to the member's profile on our existing Wild Apricot hosted site. 

 

Elliott Aldrich 

www.nahac.com 

Any update on when you might have some sort of way to get membership data out of Wild Apricot?

 

I am working on integrating your system now and this is an important requirement for us.