Indico HTTP Export API

​http://indico.cern.ch/export/2l5?format=json&orderby=date&descending=true&from=20100120&to=20110202T150000Z00&limit=10

• Output granularity:
  • events
  • sessions / contributions
  • only contributions
  • sub-contributions

• Criteria (only one? several?)
  • Name - regexp?
  • Date/time
    • event criterion: start date, end date, happening
    • absolute interval: from/to
    • relative interval (next 2 hours, 5 days, 1 month...)

• Results
  • Limit (number of results)
  • Order by (criterion) . date . alphabetic . ...
  • Descending - order of appearance

• Metadata
  • Authors/speakers
  • Whole timetable? (w/ breaks, etc)
  • Materials?
  • Protection data?

• Formats:
  • JSON
  • XML
  • HTML 4
  • HTML 5 Microdata ?
  • YAML ?
  • RDF ?
  • CSV ?:

Access

• HTTPS only
• HTTP auth?
• Cookie?
• SSO? Is there anything?
• API key for specific user? ​http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/principles-for-standardized-rest-authentication.html ? parameters? header?
• client-side certificates?