For the past several months, we’ve been working hard on getting howcast.com up and running and launching new and improved versions of our product. Along the way we’ve learned a lot! We’d like to share some of that with you and hope that it’ll save you some time and provide you with some solution options for different projects. You’ll be seeing us post about different engineering problems that we’ve solved (Ruby, Rails, Flash, and Flex), how we use different commercial and open source packages and tools, and some general thoughts on different topics from time to time.

To get things started we’d like to announce the Howcast API v0.1! We are starting off small and providing a simple REST API to read video and wiki guide data. You can use the Howcast API to get lists of videos/guides with various filters; search for videos and guides, and retrieve information about a particular video or wiki guide.

For a full list of supported APIs, please refer to our API Documentation.

We are currently in active development of the Howcast API. To stay up to date with new features, or to share comments and ideas on how to make the API better, please join the discussions on our Google Group. We will notify members of the group as we release changes or enhancements.

Our Google gadget and Facebook application both use the API and we hope you find it useful as well! If you develop an application that leverages the API, please be sure email us at api+apps@howcast.com. We may feature your application on howcast.com!