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| This page was designed to give technical information on the APIs, and is therefore best suited to be viewed by a technologist or technology team. |
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The APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) were created to allow schools to create scripts that will seemlessly integrate their data into
the CollegeInfoDesk system. Once members of your tech team created the needed scripts to convert the data in your databases to the correct
format for the APIs, then you will be able to update the information with the click of a button any time you need. Sending the data can be
thought of as a three-step process:
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Write a script or program to convert the data from your database into the Markup required for the API (similar to, but easier than XML). This is the bulk of the work
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| 2. Test |
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Use our helpful testing scripts to see if any changes need to be made to your script before submitting.
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| 3. Submit |
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Use our submission tools to send the data to our site. |
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To convert your data to the format required by the submission tools, you will need to take a look at the templates.
There are simple plaintext versions to be used for quick reference, but you should definitely read over the HTML versions (which have additional notes)
and Universal API rules at least once.
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