Saturday, November 24, 2012

New collector products with Colnect's API


Do you want to create unique products for collectors based on the unique information freely available on Colnect?

Colnect's new API enables you to query Colnect's database to extract relevant information available on Colnect. You can then use this information to offer new products to collectors. This opens a new world of possibilities.

Rock The Collectors' World
Here are some ideas for products that can be implemented using Colnect's new API:
  • Mobile applications for collectors
  • Facebook applications for collectors
  • Offline collection management software interacting with one's Colnect account
  • Online marketplaces or shops can extract updated collectible item details for sales
  • Statistical analysis applications based on unique collectors information
  • Mashup applications such as image recognition to search for an item on Colnect
  • Tools to automatically check and update Colnect's catalogs

Background

Colnect is the constant work of so many people and that's how it has become as amazing as it is today. Colnect contains unique information found nowhere else and it's easily and freely available to anyone. At the heart of Colnect are the online catalogs used by collectors to manage their personal collection and use advanced features such as Best Matches.

Colnect's catalogs are extensive and in many of the collectible categories supported they are THE BEST catalogs available anywhere in the world. They are offered in 61 languages to more than 333,333 people visiting Colnect every month. The members of Colnect currently manage about 50 million items on their inventories on Colnect.

How to Use the API

Please see the post on Colnect's forum and write us that you're interested in using the API and what you generally plan to do with the information. You will then be given more specific information and a unique API key to enable you to use the API.

8 comments:

  1. Hi, my name's Ernani and I'm a scholarship programming student, I'm very in have access just to the colnect information to develop an android app, could send me the key?

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  2. CAPI application form was sent to your email. Best would be to write us on Colnect's support forum. Thanks.

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  3. Hi, my name's Artejose and I'm a scholarship programming student, I'm very in have access just to the colnect information to develop an android app, could send me the key?

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  4. Best would be to write us on Colnect's support forum and detail exactly what your app is supposed to do.. Thanks.

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  5. Hi, my name is Lukas and I'm software engeenering student.This year I need to complete my honours project and I thought the good idea will be to create the Android application for collectors that allows them to exchange the goods they collect. How I can use the API to achieve it?

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  6. Best would be to write us on Colnect's support forum and detail exactly what your app is supposed to do.. Thanks.

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  7. I'm interested in a API key.
    I'm a FileMaker Pro Developer and creating an application for Stamp Collectors...

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  8. Hi there. My name is Ploutarchos and I am a mobile developer and a fanatic stamp collector. I would like to create a useful and user friendly mobile app for stamp collectors and would appreciate if you could register me for an API key

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