3. What is Pearson Plug & Play Pearson Plug & Play is exploring the potential of an ‘open data’ approach to Pearson’s content, creating data feeds (APIs) and a developer ecosystem. Goals of the project are to increase innovation, reachcustomer satisfaction, and sales. In support, the Plug & Play team worked with Pearson business units to identify initial datatorelease, make the data available, and establish underlying infrastructure. 20+ Data Sets explored 3
4. What API’s are available today? DK’s Eyewitness London Travel Guide of best hotels, restaurants, bars and shops in London FT Press’ titles on business, marketing and science from award winning authors Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, 230,000+ words plus examples and pronunciations in video and pictures
5. Pearson Developer Website Browse the site. All the Pearson APIs currently available are in Explore/the APIs tab. This where you’ll find all the documentation and methods for each API, the terms & conditions, prices, etc. Apply for a production API key for your application… …using the application form behind the API Key Get started You select the APIs you wish to use along with the price plan. Once the Pearson API team has have approved your production API key, you’re good to go. Register To register, just provide your name and email address. You’ll automatically get a free sandbox API key, with which you can play with the APIs in the test tab and report bugs. Take part in the Pearson Developers Community by asking your questions and sharing your findings on the APIs in the Forums, or using the contact form
6. Why work with Pearson APIs? High quality, curated content from recognisable brands Pearson datasets can be used for free Sandbox key gives you access to all the APIs Unique content from one of the first publishers of its size & diverse reach to provide open access via APIs RESTful APIs (JSON, XML, HTML) built for the web
8. Metia Labs Team within Metia London Focus on exploring applications emerging technologies Undertake rapid prototyping and Proof of Concepts Feedback learnings to our customers and into broader development teams 8 www.trainhound.co.uk The Rough Guide to the World
9. Overview Create a Proof of Concept Find new ways to use Pearson’s content assets: Great experiences Added utility, enriched value Feedback to the Plug & Play Platform team to improve the API 9
25. Front end developers able to write mobile apps without having to learn a new language
26. Portable to other platforms, such as the iPhone and iPadCSS 3 JavaScript
27. Thank you Download ShowMe London now at: https://market.android.com/ Steve Ellis steve@metia.com @steveellis www.metia.com 16
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29. London New York Dubai Singapore Buenos Aires Hub Offices Sydney Development Melbourne Client Services Winner for Digital Publishing - PANPA Award 2010 Finalist, Telstra Business Awards, 2011, 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50: 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Winner D&AD Yellow Pencil, Mobile Marketing 2009 Winner Digital Publishing Solution - iAwards 2011 Winner Innovation in Content Delivery - ACCOM Awards 2011 Winner Best Mobile Product and Best Marketing - AIMIA 2011 Winner Outstanding Export Achievement - ATS Award 2010
30. Pearson Plug & Play API Robust API Support for multiple formats i.e. JSON & XML Easy access to lots of content Simple consistently structured calls Search leveraging API
43. An access to the Sandbox APIs to test the Pearson APIs using your free sandbox key. The sandbox APIs available in the test areas in APIs are the same as the full production APIs, but the underlying data is only a subset of the full production data. For example, the sandbox Longman Dictionary API displays letters A to C, but the full production Longman Dictionary API goes to letter Z
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45. Calling an API using jQuery var apiKey = '27***************************73'; var searchUrl= 'https://api.pearson.com/longman/dictionary/0.1/entry.json’; function doSearch(searchFor){ var data = 'apikey=' + apiKey + '&q=' + searchFor $.ajax({ type: 'GET', url: searchUrl, data: data, dataType: 'jsonp', jsonp: 'jsonp', success: function(data){ handleResponse(data); }, error: function(req, err, text ) { debugLog.append('Error: ' + status + '(' + text +')<br/>'); } }); }
