Welcome to the Blurb Developer Community
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. With the launch of our API, we want to help you help your community of book lovers become bookmakers.
What is possible with the Blurb API?
The Blurb API gives developers the ability to programmatically publish photobooks onto the Blurb publishing platform. We currently have two resources available to facilitate this. The first is a Photobook resource that lets you generate an XML list of your photos and POST it to the Photobook Resource. The second is a book pricing resource which allows your application to show prices in various currencies for various book combinations.
Here are some ideas for applications that are currently possible with the Blurb API:
- Facebook application: Allows you to browse your Facebook albums and create a Blurb photo book out of any album.
- Mashup application: Shows you photos from various sites (Flickr, Picasa, JAlbum) and allows you to pick and arrange them to create a Blurb photo book
- Custom application: Allows your site users to select photos for a proof book and shows the final price before creating the proof book to purchase on Blurb.com
To get a better idea of what is possible with the Blurb API, check out our Resources section that contains tutorials and a sample application. Our API is in its early stages and we are constantly working on improving and enhancing it, so if you have particular suggestions for improvement please let us know in our forums.
Getting Started
Ready to roll? Register now for a free developer account. This account is separate from your Blurb.com account. After approving your application we will issue you a developer API Key so you can get started on your application.
