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What is an API

An application programming interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program that enables it to interact with other software. It facilitates interaction between different software programs similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers.

The Mibbit API allows you to gather information on your widget. You have to have a manager account, and a settings ID for the api to work. Where you see <settingsID> in this document, replace it with your own settings ID. If you cannot find yours, it is located on the widget manager.

How many people are using my widget?

If you run a site, and are using the widget, you might want to show elsewhere on your site how many people are using it. Well now you can do that easily.

The results are updated every 20 minutes, so should give you a reasonable idea of how many mibbitians are chatting but not the exact number.

First thing you need, is the settingsID. This is in the widget URL you are using (last line in Manager "Prefs").

For example: widget.mibbit.com/?settings=42c110f3cbbaea489c0b0e40a40e6e18&channel=%23chat

The section in bold is the settingsID

Just replace <settingsID> with your particular ID.

Using the API

The link below outputs just the number of mibbitians using your widget. You could use this from PHP,Python,etc and get it to output in the page.

http://api.mibbit.com/<settingsID>

Output:

15

Examples:
api.mibbit.com/42c110f3cbbaea489c0b0e40a40e6e18
ajax api demo

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This one outputs a snippet of javascript which will write to the document the current number. So you can include this in your HTML, without any backend changes needed.

http://api.mibbit.com/<settingsID>.js

Usage (on your html-page):

There are <script src="http://api.mibbit.com/42c...e18.js"></script> people chatting 

Output:

document.write("15")

Examples:
api.mibbit.com/42c110f3cbbaea489c0b0e40a40e6e18.js (Javascript example)
api-demo (full blown example)

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You might prefer to use this link, it’s likely that later on this one will contain more useful info as well.

http://api.mibbit.com/<settingsID>.json

Delivers data as json object to be processed by your javascript (e.g. ajax call):

{mibbitians:15}

Example: api.mibbit.com/42c110f3cbbaea489c0b0e40a40e6e18.json

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also availabe, as requested:

http://api.mibbit.com/<settingsID>.jsonp

(details will follow)

Example: http://api.mibbit.com/42c110f3cbbaea489c0b0e40a40e6e18.jsonp?callback=some_function

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There are also a couple of graphs updated at

http://api.mibbit.com/graphs/<settingsID>_week_mini.png (thumbnail)

http://api.mibbit.com/graphs/<settingsID>_month_mini.png (thumbnail)

thefollowing graphs may have a wrong scaling (will be fixed as soon as possible)

http://api.mibbit.com/graphs/<settingsID>_month.png

http://api.mibbit.com/graphs/<settingsID>_week.png

Usage:

Last 4 weeks 
<img src="http://api.mibbit.com/graphs/42c...e18_month_mini.png">
user stats.

Request a Feature

New API features are in the works, and this page will be updated when they are available.

For any feature requests for the new API, ask axod at #help on irc.mibbit.net or add them to the WishList