Today I’m happy to introduce some improvements for developers building applications on top of Iron Money’s API.
The first is a brand new page that outlines four new headers that the API respects: If-Match, If-None-Match, If-Modified-Since, and If-Unmodified-Since. These headers allow you to execute your requests conditionally; for example, to only get a resource if it’s been changed since you last requested it.
Second, Iron Money now allows you to edit your applications as well, so if you need to change the contact email or URL you can easily do so. Or, if you need to remove an application, you can do that too.
Third, the currencies resource no longer requires a valid OAuth Access Token, so you can get the list of supported currencies before authorizing any users.
Last, but not least, you can now see how many users have authorized your application! This is less useful for web applications, but tremendously interesting for desktop and mobile applications that are installed on the user’s device.
If you’re a developer who wants to have programatic access to their finances, or want to build applications for other people to use, I urge you to sign up and check out the API today and take advantage of these new features!
