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Category Archives: API

App Builder Spotlight: Matthias Hönig

This is the latest in our App Builder Spotlight series for dev.xing.com, where we ask developers the same set of questions to learn a bit more about them and their respective apps. If you’d like to participate, please contact us at api-support@xing.com.


App Builder Spotlight: Marvin

Passionate about developing apps? Want to be recognized among the XING community? Want your app to reach millions of people? Want to be famous? If you answered yes to at least one of these questions, you’ve definitely come to the right place! We came up with a new idea where developers now have a chance   Continue Reading…


Life cycle of XING API calls

This is the first in a series of blog posts on specific aspects of the XING API. To kick things off we will cover the lifecycle of API calls. All XING API calls have one of the following states: Experimental Experimental calls are fully specified, implemented, tested and can be accessed by any test consumer. We specifically have this status in our   Continue Reading…


Welcome Marvin to our developer family

We have a winner! Our prize draw has closed and we now have a lucky winner. His name is Oliver he’s now the proud owner of a XING developer shirt and coffee mug so he can drink coffee in style while enjoying the spring sunshine. So from now on our dev.xing.com robot will be known as ‘Marvin’.


Revamped XING Share Button now part of Developer Portal

Over a year ago, a couple of dedicated engineers got together and used their innovation time to produce a new and cool way to boost interaction with XING. In the meantime, a new team was formed to take over the innovation project and has continued to improve the performance of this JavaScript-based plugin. The XING   Continue Reading…


devblog unchained

From now on we’ll continue our look at the various programming languages and provide you with tips, tricks and hacks while also reporting on the latest updates to our API, interesting and trending Developer Group topics, planned XING developer events, and brand new apps. We highly recommend you subscribe to our RSS feed so you   Continue Reading…


The XING API is live!

Once upon a time: Kick-off with closed beta phase In March we shared with you how we kicked off the closed beta phase for the XING API and what led us there. Back then we started with the following items on dev.xing.com, your one-stop shop for everything related to the XING API: A bunch of   Continue Reading…


oEmbed – open embed format

Since the latest release, XING is able to embed YouTube and vimeo videos as well as SlideShare presentations in the “What’s new in your network” feed so you can watch and navigate them without having to leave XING. While this isn’t a completely new feature, embedding is now implemented using oEmbed, which gives us more   Continue Reading…


XING Open API: How did we do it?

Not so long ago we had our first brainstorming session about the open API project. We carefully considered several points that would motivate the developers to stay and create awesome applications using the XING API. More importantly, however, we thought about the points which might discourage them and eventually make them leave. By the end   Continue Reading…


Closed Beta Version of XING Developer Portal now LIVE

The first users can now log in to dev.xing.com with their XING login credentials and access all the information and documentation they need to get started with the API as well as a personal dashboard allowing them to create and manage apps.