Due to popular request we’ve now added Category support into our API.

If you haven’t already installed the Howcast Gem you can do so with: “sudo gem install howcast”

To get you up and running here is some sample code to interact with the Category taxonomy.

What no posts about video transcoding?! Shocker, we know. We are always working hard to improve howcast.com, and despite what the droughts in blog posts may suggest, we actually do like to do things that do not involve work. Recently, I completed my first triathlon (the Santa Cruz Sentinel) which was a really fun experience. I am a complete hack, but for those of you that may be on the fence about giving it a go, I wrote a wiki guide that might help convince you to make the jump:

http://www.howcast.com/guides/2297-How-To-Not-So-Seriously-Train-For-a-Triathlon