Nature Blogs is a science blog aggregator. Since May 1st 2013 API keys are no longer necessary.
ALM Name | nature |
ALM Configuration | staleness: [ 1.day, 1.month, 1.month, 1.month] requests_per_hour: 200 |
ALM Core Attributes | id url date (as published_at) |
ALM Other Attributes | title blog title blog url |
Protocol | REST |
Format | JSON |
Rate-limiting | 2/sec 5,000/day |
Authentication | no |
Restriction by IP Address | no |
API URL | http://blogs.nature.com/posts.json?doi=DOI&api_key=API_KEY |
License | CC-BY-NC |
Example Response
[
{
post: {
percent_complex_words: 12.9994,
popularity: 0,
created_at: "2009-02-05T17:12:41Z",
title: "A new link in the chain of whale evolution",
body: "Paleontologists have found a new fossil of a whale ancestor - and its announced just after I finish watching my preview DVD of Nat Geo's Morphed on whale evolution. I smell fate.Anyhow, the new whale predecessor was unveiled in a PLoS One article ...",
updated_at: "2009-09-22T23:09:56Z",
flesch: -21.5166,
url: "feedproxy.google.com/~r/observationsofanerd/~3/aMcNB2CZW_Y/new-link-in-chain-of-whale-evolution.html",
blog_id: 558,
id: 29082,
hashed_id: "a8b538120801f6735681c4ce346e3d27f4c1739f3bf349eec7f206d34cdba95b",
blog: {
percent_complex_words: 14.0934,
popularity: 2,
created_at: "2008-11-05T16:42:48Z",
title: "Observations of a Nerd",
niche_tag: "life_sciences",
updated_at: "2012-07-28T01:13:27Z",
flesch: -39.0166,
feed_url: "scienceblogs.com/observations/index.xml",
url: "http://scienceblogs.com/observations/",
decided_on: "2008-11-06T19:34:40Z",
rank: 426,
num_posts_per_week: 1.754,
id: 558,
outgoing_bloglove: 2,
num_words: 5852.28,
ip: "bogus address",
niche_rank: 141,
header_title: "BLOGS",
fog: 46.4802,
description: "A blog about anything and everything that piques the interest of a biologist",
status: "accepted"
},
links_to_doi: [
"10.1371/journal.pone.0004366"
],
num_words: 6708,
published_at: "2009-02-05T17:12:41Z",
fog: 40.0465
}
},
Source Code
The source code is available here.