Endpoints

User - Exists

Checks if the user specified exists in your namespace.

{
    message_list: [ ], 
    success: true, // always use this boolean to check if the request succeeded
    user_exists: true,
    user: {
        title: "Henry Ford", 
        url: "http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford", 
        avatar: "http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford_avatar.png", 
        following_count: 5
    }, 
}

• Library
• cURL
• jQuery
• Python

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// make sure you've initialized the library
// before you make requests using it!
// if you haven't, type in the following
IdeaMelt.init({api_key: IDEAMELT_KEY})

// now you're ready for awesomeness!
var data =  {
    user_url: "http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford",
}
var success = function(r) {
    // everything went perfectly, do something awesome now!
    // remember, this will fire asynchronously
}
var fail = function(r) {
    // yikes! something didn't go right
    // console.log(r.message_list) to see messages from the server
    // ps. this will also fire asynchronously
}

// success and fail are optional parameters
IdeaMelt.send('UserExists', data, success, fail);

$ curl \
-d "api_key=IDEAMELT_KEY" \
-d "user_url=http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford" \
http://api.ideamelt.com/v1/user/exists/

$.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "http://api.ideamelt.com/v1/user/exists/",
    data: {
        api_key: "IDEAMELT_KEY",
        user_url: "http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford"
    },
    dataType: "json",
    success: function(r) { // remember, this will fire asynchronously
        if (r.success) {
            // everything went perfectly, do something awesome now!
        }
        else {
            // yikes! something didn't go right
            // print r.message_list to see messages from the server
        }
    },
    error: function(r) { // remember, this will fire asynchronously
        // yikes! something didn't go right
        // print r.message_list to see messages from the server
    }
});

# amazing library that makes HTTP requests super easy
# python-requests.org
import requests

url = "http://api.ideamelt.com/v1/user/exists/"
payload = {
    "api_key": "IDEAMELT_KEY",
    "user_url": "http://www.en.wikipedia.org/henry_ford",
}
r = requests.get(url, params=payload)