index
API OVERVIEW
AUTHENTICATION
API PROTOCOL
API DATA
- Recipes
- Recipe Reviews
- Recipe Images
- Recipe Search Results
- Food Glossary
- Favorites
- Try Soons
- Grocery List
- User Profile
DATA MANAGEMENT
BRANDING, LEGAL & FINANCIAL
Common Bigoven URLs
BigOven uses a set of URLs to describe the location of common resources.
How Can I Link to a BigOven user?
http://www.bigoven.com/~{username}
Many of the API queries result in usernames being returned. For example, when a
set of recipe reviews is returned, a "Poster" object is included with the following
format:
<Poster>
<UserID>
{userid}
</UserID>
<UserName>
{username}
</UserName>
</Poster>
How Can I Link to a BigOven glossary entry?
http://www.bigoven.com/whatis.aspx?id={term}
How Can I Get Image Thumbnails for Recipes and User Avatars?
The Recipe Results and Recipe Images API calls will give you the name of the JPG. You can get pre-scaled thumbnails in various sizes as follows:
256x256: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/rs/256/250208124756.jpg 128x128: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/rs/128/250208124756.jpg 64x64: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/rs/64/250208124756.jpg 48x48: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/rs/48/250208124756.jpg 36x36: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/rs/36/250208124756.jpg
Similiarly, for Users:
128x128: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/avatarsquare/128/16090810314829.jpg
64x64: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/avatarsquare/64/16090810314829.jpg
48x48: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/avatarsquare/48/16090810314829.jpg
36x36: http://www.bigoven.com/pics/avatarsquare/36/16090810314829.jpg
