API Lab
Cook up plugins for our API, and collect cold hard cash!
1Eligible Plugins and Rewards
Conduct your experiments on the platforms and CMSs below. Don't see a popular framework listed? Suggest it here and we'll consider giving it security clearance for the lab.
Already completed
Choose which plugin to develop!
CMS/Blog
- Drupal
- Joomla
- Sharepoint
- Textpattern
- WordPress
- Habari
- Nucleus CMS
- Frog CMS
- eZ Publish
- Confluence
Frameworks
- Ruby on Rails (Ruby)
- Zend (PHP)
- Django (Python)
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari
Forums
- Vanilla Forums
- punBB
- Android
Power up your accelerator! The first person to submit a working plugin for each framework will receive a cash prize!
Submissions for plugins that have already been developed are not eligible to win. To receive the bonus prize, your plugin must allow job reviews, approval, rejection, and correction requests.
2Before starting your plugin
Cash rewards are awarded to the first developer to submit a working plugin for a platform/CMS listed
All plugins must:
- ・Be free to download and install
- ・Be offered under the LGPL or the same open-source license as the plugin platform.
- ・Use only your original code, code available freely from the Gengo site, and code distributed under a license that allows your use
- ・Include a quick user guide or tutorial
- ・Follow the Gengo ethos of clarity, simplicity and ease of use.
Users of your plugin must be able to:
- ・Enter their own API keys easily
- ・View pricing within the application
- ・View the status of their jobs
- ・Comment on jobs
- ・Publish their content with an SEO-friendly URL
(if applicable) - ・e.g. can use multilingual content using a different URL
- ・Plugins can be tested using the Gengo API Sandbox
- ・Please read API Recommendations PDF
- ・Please read our developer docs
3Submit your plugin
Winners will be announced via our blog,
and will also be notified by mail.
- ・Rewards will be paid via PayPal in US$
- ・For any API LAB related questions, feel free to drop us a line
- Attach your finished plugin
- Write the name of the platform you
developed your plugin for - Show us a working demo
- Submit a zip file containing your code
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