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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/1/27 Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> "Michael B. Trausch" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> LP could even expose some sort of API that could be used to quickly and
>> easily embed information about the Launchpad project on the site,
>> though I think it'd be too much to require that it be used.
>
> Now, I *am* pretty confident in stating that there would be APIs :-).
> In fact, there already are: https://help.launchpad.net/API/ (those are
> Python APIs, but I have to believe that if we offer arbitrary web pages,
> we're going to offer a way to embed Launchpad functionality in them --
> that's the whole point, after all).

I think what you'd want here is not just the APIs, but rather a way to
get a little fragment of Launchpad content in the form of an iframe or
image, so that it can be embedded into an HTML document.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>