Note
These documents and this API are under development and are changing all of the time. If you’re making something that relies on some behavior of this API remaining the same, please let us know at mobile-project-info@mit.edu.
The MIT Mobile APIs is a collection of RESTful JSON interfaces to some of MIT’s services and data. The goal of this project is to create simple interfaces for as many MIT services as possible, and to link related data across APIs wherever possible. Its primary clients are the MIT Mobile iPhone and Android apps, but it’s available to everyone.
Every year, students create many interesting projects either in their spare time or as part of a class or contest, and every year those teams face the same issues of discovering what data is available and how it can be accessed programmatically. There’s no one place to look for what’s available, and much of MIT’s data is undocumented and uses protocols that students shouldn’t need to learn for a three week project. The smaller the learning curve is to use MIT data and use it correctly, the more cool projects will survive their journey from idea to reality.
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