Hi everyone, here are a couple of updates for you on our Data Extraction (DE) API rollout.  Your comments and suggestions have been extremely helpful...keep the feedback coming...

Getting Close to v1

We are currently finalizing some additional functionality and fixing some issues found during this Beta process.  Our plan is to release  RC1 (release candidate) this week.

As we release RC1, we will start our versioning process.  We'll keep the /beta/ path open for a few weeks still to allow everyone ample time to migrate over, but we'll be introducing the /v1/ path into the request URL as the first supported version of the service.  We'll be updating our documentation accordingly.

New functionality

We've added some new functionality to our Data Extraction API (our reporting REST-based web services) in the past couple of weeks.  Here's a quick synopsis:

1. Express Report Support - Based on very popular demand, Webtrends reporting data that is Express compliant and enabled will now show realtime data via the DX API. There are various method additions to support this:
   • The list report time period method shows the additional time period as "list name="Realtime"".
     
   • The list reports for profile method now indicates whether the report "IsRealtimeCompatible", so you know if that particular report will give you Express data.
   • And to make the request for Express data, simply use "period=current_day" in the get report data for period method.  Also now included in that response is the "LastUpdate" time stamp so you know how recently your data was updated.
     
2. Support for custom time ranges - In addition to the standard "periods" of time available (eg, current_month, etc.), you can now select relative and specific custom time ranges in your request.  For example, if you'd like to select the past 7 days, starting with yesterday, you would include "start_period=current_day-7&end_period=current_day-1", or "start_period=2009m6d30&end_period=2009m7d6"
   
3. New response format - HTML - We've morphed our "excel" format into a new "html" format response structure.  You can still select "format=excel" as an option, but the responses are all coming back in the new HTML format.  This gives us better control of the response, and more consistency with the structure.

More coming soon

Look for more information coming from us over the next couple of weeks.  It's all good!