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title: Oooh, New API @ FriendFeed
description: Social sharing and networking site Friendfeed (friend to the hyper-connected mind you - see the comp...
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# [Oooh, New API @ FriendFeed](https://www.websitemagazine.com/web-development/oooh-new-api-friendfeed)

 Written by [Pete Prestipino](https://www.websitemagazine.com/web-development/author/pete-prestipino) | Jul 20, 2009 5:00:00 AM

**Social sharing and networking site [Friendfeed](https://friendfeed.com) (*friend to the hyper-connected mind you - see the compete.com data below*) announced version 2 of their API is available for beta-testing.**

New features include realtime API's (utilize long polling - which allows to emulate information push from a server to a client - to get feeds in real-time), flexible sharing of information (direct message users, share to multiple feeds), file attachments (attach images, PDFs, spreadsheets, etc.), OAuth support and a more simplied response format. Friendfeed provides the HTML for representing entries so developers don't have to construct it.

Documentation is available at https://friendfeed.com/api/documentation. A Python library that implements the new API methods and OAuth support is available at https://friendfeed-api.googlecode.com/files/friendfeed-api-v2-beta1.tar.gz.

Friendfeed has a long way to go to compete with the likes of Twitter. Perhaps this new API will offer some help.

***Twitter vs. FriendFeed (June 2009):***

<https://siteanalytics.compete.com/friendfeed.com+twitter.com/?metric=uv>

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