Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Lisa Brooks <lisa AT issuelab.org>]

Hi there - 

Recently -- within the last couple of weeks or so -- one of our processes here that relies on a call to the CC API stopped working.

We use cURL and PHP to post data to the CC API and get back the license URI. Here's the function that we use -- this hasn't been changed in months:

function makeCCLicense($commercial, $derivatives, $jurisdiction)

{

$ch = curl_init('http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/1.5/license/standard/get');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, TRUE);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'commercial=' . $commercial . '&derivatives=' . $derivatives . '&jurisdiction=' . $jurisdiction);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

$result = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);

....}

I've been testing for clues and have set this up to print the contents of the $result variable to the screen. I get "None". I used to get something like "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/", depending on the chooser's choices.

I've run out of things to check/tweak on our side. I'm now wondering if we are experiencing this problem due to the changes that you all just did to the API? 

Appreciate any help you can offer - thanks!

~Lisa

Lisa M. Brooks

Co-director
IssueLab: bringing nonprofit research into focus - http://www.issuelab.org
lisa AT issuelab.org
773-649-1790

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  1. Re: CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark (Asheesh Laroia)


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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:16:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Asheesh Laroia <asheesh AT asheesh.org>
To: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [cc-devel] CC REST API Updated for Public Domain Mark
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Doig wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> This morning, the CC REST API was updated to include support for the
> Public Domain Mark and to deprecate the issuing of the retired Public
> Domain Certification and Dedication. We have also added a new element,
> `deprecated`, in license responses, that denotes whether or not the
> issued license has been deprecated by Creative Commons. These changes
> affect all versions of the REST API, excluding 1.0.

This is a bit of a late reply, but -- it's *great* to see the 'deprecated'
metadata showing up in the REST API. That's excellent.

And the new Public Domain stuff Mark work been a long time coming. A lot
of CC fans really appreciate the work CC is doing on revising that, and so
it's a really welcome sign that it's stable enough to land in the API.

-- Asheesh.

--
You will triumph over your enemy.


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