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The goal of AMO Version 3.3 is to support Web API access to AMO content. There are two target clients of the API: Firefox 3 and extension authors.
Firefox 3
The new Add-Ons Manager for Firefox 3 includes a revised dialog that allows content from AMO to be displayed. A design walkthru depict this new set of interactions.
Add-Ons in this context refers to the triumvirate of extensions/add-ons, themes and plugins.
Add-Ons Details
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| DTL-1 |
P1 |
Retrieve Add-Ons attributes |
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- Attributes should include:
- name
- type (plugin/extension/theme)?
- description
- thumbnail?
- rating
- "reviews" URL
- "learn more" URL
- "install" URL
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| DTL-2 |
P1 |
Support the UpdateInfoURL mechanism |
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bug 395857 |
- Firefox 3 now supports display of "release notes" when add-ons updates are available. More details
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Add-Ons Lists
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| LIST-1 |
P1 |
Retrieve a list of recommended add-ons from a single or all categories (n random results) |
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- Since only the first n (3? 5?) recommendations are listed, the API doesn't need to return the entire recommended set. In fact, the results should appear to be "random" so that the same list of n addons doesn't always appear at the top of the list. Note also that since the Fx 3 client will need to subtract out the already installed addons, we may want to return more than simply n.
- Open Issue: What happens if we change the AMO design to allow for multiple recommendation lists (e.g. based on user type - new user, advanced user, extension developer, web developers, etc...)
- Possible Answer: The reco list only returns results from the new and adv user reco lists.
- Given : app name/version, (list of installed addons)
- Return: list of recommended addons, link to "more results" on AMO, total number of recommended
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| LIST-2 |
P1 |
Retrieve a list of featured add-ons for the AMO site |
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| LIST-3 |
P1 |
Retrieve a list of new add-ons (n results) |
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Add-Ons Search
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| SRCH-1 |
P1 |
Ability to retrieve AMO search results |
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- Given : text query, app name/version
- Return: list of compatible, public addons matching query
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| SRCH-2 |
P1 |
Limit search results to addons only or plugins only or themes only |
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Add-Ons Ratings
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| RATE-1 |
P1 |
Ability to submit/upload a user ratings of an addon |
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Open Issue: Do we require login to submit a rating? How to prevent abuse if no login is collected?- User can submit a rating without being logged in
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Extension Authors
Extension authors and developers have indicated that they are looking for more metrics and information about the current usage and popularity of their add-on on AMO. To that end, we should offer a read-only API to allow extension authors access that data.
Download Details
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| DOWN-1 |
P1 |
API should be web-ready (REST) and format should be XML for easier integration into PHP and AJAX sites |
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| DOWN-2 |
P1 |
Retrieve Cumulative Downloads |
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- Parameters should include:
- GUID or identifier for addons
- Version number: either all versions of the addon or only the current version
- Locale Specification: either all locales or a specific locale
- Firefox version: either all or a specific version of Firefox {need spec}
- OS Platform: either all or a specific OS platform {need spec}
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| DOWN-3 |
P2 |
Retrieve Period X Downloads |
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- Parameters should include:
- Period: enum of either {Day, Week or Month}
- Date: specific day, specific week or specific month
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| DOWN-4 |
P2 |
Offer the cumulative download count for all addons versions, locales, platforms, fx versions as an RSS 1.0/RSS 2.0/ATOM feed |
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Usage Details
| ID |
Priority |
Requirement |
Assignee |
Bug/Design links |
| USE-1 |
P1 |
Retrieve Period X Update Pings |
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- Parameters should include:
- GUID or identifier for addons
- Version number: either all versions of the addon or only the current version
- Locale Specification: either all locales or a specific locale
- Firefox version: either all or a specific version of Firefox {need spec}
- OS Platform: either all or a specific OS platform {need spec}
- Period: enum of either {Day, Week or Month}
- Date: specific day, specific week or specific month
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Future Ideas
- Offer an upload API for extension authors to send their XPI to AMO
- Offer an upload API for sites like MozDev.org to be able to send XPI's in batches (perhaps a sync API?)