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Welcome to the EventsAPI wiki!

The EventsAPI is intended to be a means through which events can be disseminated to all applicable social media/web sites via a single interface/submission point. This saves organizers precious time and frustration having to log into multiple sites to post the same information in many various locations.

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Application Description

The Events API is a one point broadcast method for disseminating event information to all social media used by UAS.

Technical Specification

The Events API is a RESTful web service that accepts JSON post requests from authenticated clients to broadcast event information to all supported social media site.

Social Media Sites Supported

• Google Calendar
• Meetup.com
• Twitter

Request Types

• createEvent
  • Creates event(s) on each social media site supported.
• updateEvent
  • Updates event information on each social media site supported.
• deleteEvent
  • Deletes events information on each social media site supported.
• cancelEvent
  • Updates events to indicated cancellation on each social media site supported.

More detailed descriptions and technical specification follows for each request type.

createEvent()

HTTPS/SSL Authentication

Parameters

• Event Title
• Event Description
• Event Short Description
• Start Date Time (Format: epoch)
• [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)
• [array of ‘replicated events’]
  • Start Date Time (Format: epoch)
  • [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)

Return

• Arrays of ids for event(s) created for each social media site supported.

updateEvent()

HTTPS/SSL Authentication

Parameters

• Media Site IDs
• [Event Title]
• [Event Description]
• [Event Short Description]
• [Start Date Time] (Format: epoch)
• [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)
• [array of ‘replicated events’]
  • Media Site IDs
  • [Start Date Time] (Format: epoch)
  • [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)

Return

• Array of Success or Failure for each media

deleteEvent()

HTTPS/SSL Authentication

Parameters

• Media Site IDs
• [array of ‘replicated events’]
  • Media Site IDs
  • [Start Date Time] (Format: epoch)
  • [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)

Return

• Array of Success or Failure for each media

cancelEvent()

HTTPS/SSL Authentication

Parameters

• [Cancelled Event Description]
• [Cancelled Event Short Description]
• Media Site IDs
• [array of ‘replicated events’]
  • Media Site IDs
  • [Start Date Time] (Format: epoch)
  • [End Date Time] (Format: epoch)

Return

• Array of Success or Failure for each media