BackType Acquired by Twitter
Just heard news that
BackType has been acquired by Twitter!
Unfortunately they have decided to discontinue their API :(
So BackTypeSharp will, at some point, no longer work. Sorry to those who were using it.
An alternative has been suggested in a Hacker News comment:
http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/
Good luck!
Project Description
BackTypeSharp is a C# library that allows querying of BackType's API (www.backtype.com)
It was written in a fluent manner (or attempted) so that you can easily query BackType for information.
Make sure you get a BackType API key from their website!
About BackTypeSharp
I started BackTypeSharp for a personal project and decided it could be useful to others and so I've decided to share it on CodePlex. I first saw BackType being used on Mashable.com. If you go to any story on Mashable's website and scroll towards the bottom
you'll see a section called "Reactions" with comments from people posted via "BackType." A little research on BackType and a few days later I thought the "Reactions" was a neat idea and wanted to implement it into my own project. Since there were no libraries
written in .NET to support interaction with the BackType API I created one.
I've used TweetSharp quite a bit and really enjoyed the fluent manner in which you execute requests so I attempted to model BackTypeSharp in a similar manner.
BackTypeSharp is far from a complete library and I will continue to work on it over time. If you'd like to help please feel free to contact me. There are some "tests" in the solution but I have no experience writing unit tests or doing TDD so I wouldn't rely
on them. I would love to have someone who is experienced with writing unit tests help. If anything the test project shows how to query and get results using the library.
For more information on BackType you can visit the developer site here:
BackType API Documentation