Ident Engine YQL APIs
There are a number of cases where using a large JavaScript library like Ident Engine is problematic. A good example would be mobile applications where you may need to limit file sizes to the absolute minimum. So I have created a couple of easy-to-use web based API's that only require a few lines of code to be used in a web page or RIA.
Uses Google's Social Graph API with additional data to build a list of identities. The API can also return associated service endpoints for each of the sites it finds.
Uses Google's Social Graph API with additional data to build a list of identities.The API creates a ready-to-use block of HTML which can be directly inserted into any page.
The APIs were created by placing the core of the Ident Engine into a couple of YQL opentables which provide a simple to use API. There is only one small drawback in using the YQL architecture, it is hard to support the event driven processes of Ident Engines profile parsing. You will find that in some circumstances, using the original JavaScript library will return more results as profile parsing has had to be excluded from these APIs.