Introducing OCEAN, the TalentOyster API

We're pretty excited today to be launching OCEAN a REST based API for TalentOyster. TalentOyster OCEAN lets you embed job search functionality and content from TalentOyster right into your website.

Here is an example of OCEAN in action on another site.


Our API supports both our jobs and our Connect content. That means you can add job searching functionality and display teasers of TalentOyster Connect content right from your site. The API is fairly simple, using simple HTTP GET requests and returning XML (custom or RSS) in response.

To make OCEAN even easier to use there is a PHP library available as well. This PHP class handles the connectivity and response handling aspects of the API so that you can easily add some TalentOyster functionality to your own site.

Check it out and let us know what you think. If you want to get started just request your free application key by emailing us here.

TalentOyster CommunityEventBadge

Following the launch of the TalentOyster JobBadge is our CommunityEventBadge. You can see the CommunityEventBadge running on the right side of this blog.

This badge works similarly to our JobBadge but provides community event content instead and is targetted more at those who are interested in the community aspects of TalentOyster.

We will be creating a space on our site for you to create customized versions of our badges but for now to add the CommunityEventBadge to your site just copy and paste the code below (to use on bloggercom post this code into a new custom HTML gadget for your blog).



<script src="http://www.talentoyster.com/widgets/events/events.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// create a new TalentOyster CommunityEventBadge
var talentOysterEventBadge = new
TalentOyster_Eventbadge();

// should the badge automatically refresh itself? default is true
// talentOysterEventBadge.autorefresh=false;//turns refresh off

// the interval in seconds between event list refreshes. default is 8
talentOysterEventBadge.interval=9;

// the number of events to display in the list. default is 3
talentOysterEventBadge.jobcount=4;

// sets the width of the badge in pixels. default is 200
//talentOysterEventBadge.width=300; // would set width to 300 pixels

// configures the background and font colors used for the frame and content
// talentOysterEventBadge.theme.badgeframe.background="#000000";//black background
// talentOysterEventBadge.theme.badgeframe.color="#FFFFFF";//white text
// talentOysterEventBadge.theme.joblist.background="#FFFFFF";//white background
// talentOysterEventBadge.theme.joblist.color="#000000";//black text

// displays the badge. this line is required
talentOysterEventBadge.render();

// loads the badge with jobs the first time. this line is required
talentOysterEventBadge.load();
</script>

Introducing the TalentOyster JobBadge

The first TalentOyster web-badge is now up and available for our beta site. You can see it on the right of this blog, it shows recent jobs on our site and refreshes itself every so often.

We'll be adding a section to our site where you can easily create customizable TalentOyster web badges to include on your site but for now the JobBadge code appears below. You can customize the colours used for the badge, the number of jobs to display, whether or not the list should refresh automatically and the delay between refreshes. You can also of course customize the language used for the badge to use any of the TalentOyster supported languages and locales.

So just copy and paste the code below into your page (to use on bloggercom post this code into a new custom HTML gadget for your blog).


<script src="http://www.talentoyster.com/widgets/jobs/jobs.js" type="text/javascript">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
// create a new TalentOyster JobBadge
var talentOysterJobBadge = new
TalentOyster_Jobbadge();

// should the badge automatically refresh itself? default is true
// talentOysterJobBadge.autorefresh=false;//turns refresh off

// the interval in seconds between job list refreshes. default is 8
talentOysterJobBadge.interval=9;

// the number of jobs to display in the list. default is 3
talentOysterJobBadge.jobcount=4;

// sets the width of the badge in pixels. default is 200
//talentOysterJobBadge.width=300; // would set width to 300 pixels

// configures the background and font colors used for the frame and content
// talentOysterJobBadge.theme.badgeframe.background="#000000";//black background
// talentOysterJobBadge.theme.badgeframe.color="#FFFFFF";//white text
// talentOysterJobBadge.theme.joblist.background="#FFFFFF";//white background
// talentOysterJobBadge.theme.joblist.color="#000000";//black text

// displays the badge. this line is required
talentOysterJobBadge.render();

// loads the badge with jobs the first time. this line is required
talentOysterJobBadge.load();
</script>