Developers

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Build plugins for TypePad AntiSpam

Interested in building plugins for TypePad AntiSpam? We've developed plugins for Movable Type and WordPress, but we would love to see plugins available for other blogging and content management systems.

Automattic's popular Akismet platform implemented a dead-simple API for applications to make use of its service, and TypePad AntiSpam is 100% compatible with the Akismet API. This means that if you've already developed a plugin for Akismet, your plugin will be compatible with TypePad AntiSpam. And if you're looking to develop a new plugin, if you develop to the Akismet API your plugin will work with both Akismet and TypePad AntiSpam.

• Learn more about the Akismet API
• Download our plugin for Movable Type
• Download our plugin for WordPress

Update Your Akismet Code to Use TypePad AntiSpam

You can very easily update your existing Akismet plugins, libraries and code to use TypePad AntiSpam instead of Akismet. The benefits for your users are simple: It's free no matter how they use it, and it works better. If you're not comfortable switching yet, you can make TypePad AntiSpam an option alongside Akismet. And as a developer you should know that the TypePad AntiSpam engine itself is open source — if you're reading this, you already know the benefits.

Adding TypePad AntiSpam support is easy:

1. Change the API endpoint for your code from rest.akismet.com to api.antispam.typepad.com.
2. Tell your users to get a free TypePad AntiSpam API key to replace their Akismet API key.
3. There is no step three.

Build and operate your own spam service

Interested in building your own antispam service? We've made the application framework behind TypePad AntiSpam available under an open source license (GPL v2, to be exact).

While we aren’t sharing all of the rules and logic that we run with our implementation of the TypePad AntiSpam engine (lest we arm spammers with too much information), we are open sourcing the core engine. This allows others to build and operate their own services -- even competitive services -- on top of our framework. We encourage developers who make use of the system to share what they learn with others who use the code.

• Download the TypePad AntiSpam application framework from code.sixapart.com. [view] [svn]

Be sure to let us know when you’ve developed a new plugin or implemented TypePad AntiSpam on other services or applications.