The spactor.com API (application programming interface) offers content publishers a fast and simple way to access spactor’s powerful meta-database. Using this interface, you can easily register your online media content (podcasts or online videos) in order to have it analyzed and listed in the spactor.com search engine index. Furthermore, spactor.com search results can be directly integrated into your website via the spactor.com API.

Because spactor.com can make your online media content "visible" for the world. Based on a cutting-edge audio-video indexing technology, spactor.com will scan your media content and store the corresponding meta data in its search engine index. Users can find your content meta data on spactor.com and will be linked to you website. This way, spactor.com can help making your content popular.

The spactor.com API is a great tool for podcast creators or online video providers. You can register your media content, have it indexed by spactor’s advanced analysis technology, and search over the resulting meta data from your own website. All you need is a free account – get one here.

It is easier than you think: Create a free spactor.com account and log in to the media registration page. If you are a podcasts creator you simply register the URL of the corresponding RSS feed for your podcast. If you run a video portal, you need to create a RSS file enlisting the videos you want to have indexed by spactor.com, place this RSS file on your server and type in the URL of this file on the media registration form.

spactor.com needs to know what media content you what to be indexed. Therefore, you can create an RSS text file (XML-based) enlisting all media files to be analyzed and place it on your server so spactor.com can access it. Don’t worry: it is really easy to compile that:

• For podcast creators this is very simply: spactor.com can read your regular podcast feed. Simply register your podcast feed and spactor.com will regularly visit and catch the update.
• Video platform providers need to compile a media-RSS feed for the video content to be analyzed. Check out our media-RSS sample for more information. Just like with podcast feeds, you can register media-RSS feeds in the feed registration section.

Our API allows you to access spactor’s meta-database and run queries on it directly from your website. This way you can offer your website users to search your registered content with spactor’s innovative deep search technology. The search integration is based on the REST standard – a common standard for simple web-based interfaces.

You can access the metadata database by calling a URL that includes your parameters for the database query:

• username (your spactor.com account name)
• password (your spactor.com account password, sha1-encoded)
• searchterm (the term you search for)

Based on this parameters, you compose a query URL as follows:
http://www.spactor.com/api/rest/?username=[YourAccountName]&password=[YourPassword]&searchterm=[YourSearchTerm]

As a result, this URL call will return XML data holding information for each result of your query:

• itemId
• publishDate
• url
• title
• categories