Just POST your tech events as JSON

Towards a programmers friendly information hub for tech events.

In 2015 at PolyConf, during one of the breaks, I remember watching Phil Nash and Joe Nash (two of our speakers) filling in the forms with the conference details on Lanyrd. It looked tedious.

At that moment it struck me… Wouldn't it be easier to just POST this data through an API without the need of using forms? How to create a developer friendly information hub for tech events so not only checking, but also adding them is convenient? In the end as programmers we like to automate processes…

Today we are introducing a simple way of adding events to Eventil, a first, small step towards a full-featured API. You don’t need to create an account or to generate an API key, you can just send us interesting events by POSTing them as JSON and we will take care of the rest.

Here's the shape of the data we're accepting:

{
  "name": "PolyConf 16",
  "startDate": “2016–06–30T09:00:00",
  "url": “http://polyconf.com",
  "description": “PolyConf is a three-day, single track, multi-disciplinary conference on advanced technologies for programmers interested in polyglot approach to software development.",
  "city": "Poznan",
  "country": "PL"
}

Here's how to send it in using cURL.

curl -X POST -d @event.json -H “Content-Type: application/json” https://api.eventil.com/events

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