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Creative Commons Web Services

Author:	Nathan R. Yergler
Updated:	2005-08-30

Creative Commons provides web service APIs which can be used to integrate the Creative Commons licensing engine into third party applications. We have release the 1.5 version of the API, which is documented in the 1.5 README The 1.5 API is stable, and development is occuring in CVS HEAD.

The current in-development API is described in the Dev README. These APIs are currently in beta, and we are soliciting feedback and suggestions. As such, the API may change in the future.

The Previous Releases are still supported by the server at their canonical URIs.

Sample Code

ccPublisher uses the REST interface. See class CcRest in wizard/pages/license.py for an example.

Other example usages:

Python: The ccwsclient package provides basic abstraction of the REST interface via a Python class (ccwsclient SVN).
Java: The org.creativecommons.api package provides the CcRest class for using the REST web service from Java. Relies on JDOM and Jaxen. (org.cc.api SVN)

Your comments, feedback and suggestions can be sent to software@creativecommons.org.

Revision History

19 July 2007: Updated links.

30 August 2005: 1.5 (1.5 readme)

2005 1.0 (1.0 readme)