Database.com Chatter REST API Developer's Guide - Salesforce.com

CHATTER API
Chapter 1
Introducing Chatter REST API
In this chapter ...
Chatter API is a REST API that provides programmatic access to Chatter feeds
and social data such as users, groups, followers, and files. It's used by developers
• Deciding When to Use Chatter API who want to integrate Chatter into a variety of applications such as mobile
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Understanding Chatter API
Resources
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applications, intranet sites, and third-party Web applications. Chatter API is
similar to APIs offered by other companies with feeds, such as Facebook and
Twitter. Its advantages include ease of integration and development.
• Understanding OAuth and Chatter
API
Note: Chatter API and Chatter REST API refer to the same API.
To use this documentation, you should have a basic familiarity with software
development, Web services, OAuth, and Chatter.
The following sections include:
• The key characteristics and architecture of Chatter REST API. This will
help you understand how your applications can best use Chatter API resources.
• How to set up your development environment so you can start working with
Chatter API.
• How to configure OAuth for your client application.
• A tutorial that leads you step by step through a typical use case.
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