DIGITAL PODCAST INTRODUCES THE DIGITAL PODCAST SEARCH SERVICE

New service to Provide Developers with Comprehensive Web Service API for Digital Podcast Search

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Digital Podcast Search Developer Network http://digitalpodcast.com/podcastsearchservice/ a new resource that provides developers with access to Web Service application programming interfaces (APIs) to Digital Podcast Search. This new Podcast Search Service allows application and website developers to integrate Digital Podcast’s directory search capabilities directly into their applications.

This powerful new web service allows remote keyword search of the podcast directory by relevance, listener subscription rate, ratings, visits, total user votes and date added. The service returns results in OPML and RSS formats.

Digital Podcast has launched PodcastSearchService.com as a demonstration site for the Digital Podcast Search Service api. This new site allows users to search for podcasts by keyword and select the sort order for the results. The functionality demonstrated at http://podcastsearchservice.com can easily be integrated into any application or website using the service API.

Digital Podcast is also releasing an open source Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Podcast Search Service. The SDK provides BSD licensed code examples and libraries for accessing the Digital Podcast Search Service API.

Digital Podcast has launched the open source Podcast Search SDK project to extend the SDK to PHP, Perl, Python, and Java environments. The Podcast Search SDK project can be found at http://sourceforge.net/project/podcastsearch .

The combination of the Digital Podcast Search Service API and the Podcast Search SDK will enable any website or application to provide complete podcast search capabilities.