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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 “color_hexadecimal” attribute for categories. This new attribute defines the color to be used with a category; colors are typically used with categories in graphs. If you have write permission for categories, you can also change the color associated with a category.

Second, Iron Money now allows you to add localizations to your applications. You can change the name, description, and URL for each localization.

Last, but not least, you can now see how many users have authorized your application each day! 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 any of Iron Money’s thousands of users, I urge you to sign up and check out the API today and take advantage of these new features!

Today I’m happy to introduce a couple new resources to Iron Money’s API. These new resources give developers programmatic access to data they could not request before.

The first new resource is a list of all of the applications owned by a user. This resource requires an OAuth token with the appropriate permissions; check out the permissions documentation for more information.

Second, any application can get basic information about any application without authorization. Basic information includes the name, description, and URL for an application. This resource can be used in conjunction with the notifications resource to show information about the application that sent a notification.

Iron Money’s extensive API allows programatic access to user data (once a user authorizes the application to access their data), which means developers can build whatever they want to on top of Iron Money—the API terms of use are the limit.

Join the hundreds of others that have signed up for Iron Money and let me know if you have any feedback!

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!