Ident Engine

A JavaScript library that retrieves and aggregates profiles from across the web

Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We've filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints.

Demos

Identity Discovery

Uses Google's Social Graph API with data from profiles to build the list of identities.

Profile Discovery

Creates a collection of profiles from across the web using identity search

Combined Profile

Combines the profile collection together to find the most complete description of an individual

Form Auto Fill

Uses the combined profile data to auto fill a profile form. Also inculdes a photo picker example

Lifestream

Builds a lifestream by combining identity search with calls to API endpoints.

Current release: v.0.1.6
Download | Ident Engine
558k zip - with documentation

Ident Engine has a MIT license


A List Apart article about Ident Engine - Discovering Magic


ReadWriteWeb - Ident Engine: Put Activity Streams on Your Site Easily

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