Hi5 API (beta)

Introduction

Welcome to the API for Hi5.com We've got a full SOAP API, and even a few REST endpoints. Feel free to check it out!

Disclaimer

The API service is currently in beta test, this means that interfaces can change without warning.

Send email to api-request@hi5.com if you intend to access this in any way.

SOAP

This API is exposed through a set of WSI Basic Profile -compliant SOAP v1.1 endpoints. The API supports XML-binary Optimized Pacakging (XOP) and SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) for transmission of binary data. The SOAP API is fully described by the following endpoints:

Namespace http://api.hi5.com (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/ (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/auth (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/feed (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/fu (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/message (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/music (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/notification (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/platform (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/presence (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/profile (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/profiler (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/status (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/test (wsdl):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/widget (wsdl):

The SOAP API is also accessible by client-side libraries that can be downloaded from the download page.

REST

This API supports a Representational State Transfer (REST) model for accessing a set of resources through a fixed set of operations. The following resources are accessible through the RESTful model:

Data

All SOAP endpoints and REST operations act on the same set of data described by XML Schema. The following data (grouped by namespace) are available:

Default Namespace (schema):

Default Namespace (schema):

Namespace http://api.hi5.com/ (schema):

Namespace http://purl.org/syndication/history/1.0 (schema):

Namespace http://wink.com/developer/profilemap (schema):

Namespace http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# (schema):

Namespace http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom (schema):

Namespace http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/ (schema):

Namespace http://xspf.org/ns/0/ (schema):

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