WorldAPI

What is it?

WorldAPI is a PHP consumer of the World API from Second Life.

SL's World API gives the aspiring web scraper a lot of info about Second Life residents, places, and groups.

WorldAPI (no space... see?) wraps all that up in a handy PHP object.

The Second Life World API documentation is here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/World_API

WorldAPI needs: cURL and DOM PHP extensions, and PHP 5 (since it's a set of classes).

You can use it with your project through Composer: http://getcomposer.org/

The standard way to install composer is:

cd to your project directory.
Install composer: curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Have composer generate a generic composer.json file: php ./composer.phar init
Tell composer to install/update dependencies: php ./composer.phar -v -o update

To include WorldAPI in your project, add something like this to your dependencies, in composer.json:

"require": {
  "mornington/worldapi": "dev-master"
}

The demo.php file has some example usage.

Basically, instantiate one of the WorldAPI subclasses, passing a UUID as the single argument.

Then call the worldAPI() function on that object and you'll have a handy array with the various meta fields as keys.

Here's how you'd show Solo Mornington's maturity rating:

$resident = new WorldAPIResident('6d286553-59ae-409a-887d-ee75df67b834');
$data = $resident->worldAPI();
echo $data['mat'];

It's happy and friendly and GNU licensed.

The official repository for WorldAPI is on github. Of course, everyone's welcome to join in with bug reports and pull requests.

I'm Solo Mornington on Second Life. I'm working on this as part of a project for the Linden Endowment For The Arts. http://www.lea-sl.org

You can contact me through my github page, or on Second Life.