Credibility Rating Database API

Last modified July 31, 2006

This document describes the web services exposed by the Credibility toolbar database. These are REST style API calls that return plain text values.

This API is under construction and is subject to change.

Supported functions

wsGetRatingDouble

Returns the mean user rating for a given URL.

Params:

• url – the URL to retrieve ratings for

Returns: the mean rating for the URL. If the site has not been rated, the web service will return 0.

Sample: http://cows.syr.edu/ws/wsGetRatingDouble.php?url=http://google.com/ig

wsGetRatingInt

Returns the mean user rating for a given URL, rounded to the nearest integer.

Params:

• url – the URL to retrieve ratings for

Returns: the mean rating for the URL, rounded to the nearest integer. If the site has not been rated, the web service will return 0.

Sample: http://cows.syr.edu/ws/wsGetRatingInt.php?url=http://google.com/ig