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Feature:Local Volunteering opportunities feed. VolunteerMatch.org #17

Open c1505 opened 8 years ago

c1505 commented 8 years ago

Make a connector feed by scraping data from volunteermatch.org or working with the api.

andyhull commented 8 years ago

@c1505 I like this idea. Is there documentation for the API anywhere?

c1505 commented 8 years ago

http://cdn.volunteermatch.org/www/legal/VM-Public-Use-API-Overview.pdf api documentation. there isn't much there. looking through it now

c1505 commented 8 years ago

more detail on the api here http://cdn.volunteermatch.org/www/legal/VM-Public-use-API-user-manual.pdf

c1505 commented 8 years ago

I am waiting on approval to use the API. Without approval, I can only operate the hello_world action and can't access any actual data.

There is code to access the api here https://github.com/volunteermatch/vm-contrib/blob/master/api-examples/ruby/apiv2.rb . You just need to call it with your username and API key.

The api takes an action and a query. Will use the searchOpportunities action and pass in the locations as the query.