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corank, the site that let’s you make your own socially driven site (think digg), announced yesterday that they have released their own api. while the api allows some basic calls right now and more functionality is on the way, the best part is that the api automatically applies to every site that you make using the corank system. what this means is that if you make your own digg-like site, users can make applications for your site without requiring you to release an api and simply by using the corank api.

One thing to note is that this first version of the API is read-only. That is, you can read data from your coRanking site, but you cannot use the API to write things. In other words, you can read data from stories, users, who voted what, comments, etc. but cannot use the API to cast a vote, submit a story or a comment.

We left the “write” part of the API for the next version, coming very soon. But even before the next version comes out, we’re already working on a new group of “read-only” calls to provide even more functionality and flexibility very soon, so check this blog often.

if you use the api and feel something is missing (apart from the features that are already under construction), be sure to let them know.