Overview
Our goal with the Empire Avenue API is for third party developers to develop applications to work alongside and extend Empire Avenue. We are committed to providing developers with access that will produce new and innovative applications on various platforms. Before you get going though, we strongly encourage you to browse through the Getting Started section below.
Beta and what it means
At present, Empire Avenue is in BETA state. It means that this API continues to evolve and expand. Those that use our API will be using it at the risk that whole swathes of it may be rewritten, changed etc. While we will try very hard to let any developer know when we make changes, in order to get announcements of additions and changes please sign up to the following Google Group: empireave-api-announce@googlegroups.com
To contact us, discuss and/or report bugs with the API, we also encourage you to join the developer discussion which is available at the following Google Group: empireave-api-discussion@googlegroups.com
Developer Responsibility
We are committed to the privacy of our users. We expect any third-party developer to be as careful and as committed to the privacy of our users as we are. This means that we expect you to protect any data retrieved from Empire Avenue on behalf of a user. Please read our Developer Guidelines and other legal documents that may pertain to you and your application carefully. If you intend to store the data from Empire Avenue, you may be required to have a privacy policy that pertains to your application.
Please note: we have provided a mechanism for any Third-Party Application to be blocked from accessing a user's data at the request of a user. We will take abuse of the API and access to Empire Avenue data extremely seriously.
Getting Started
To use this API you will need to obtain an API Key. As you get started we suggest you go through the following steps:
- Read how to obtain an API Key and register your application with Empire Avenue
- Read our Developer Guidelines and other Legal Documents that might apply to you
- Learn about how to connect to the API and run queries
- Learn about Authentication and how to query the API as a user
- Understand our usage and query limits
- Look through the actual API Calls