The Green Web Foundation Api Service

Currently available services

• Greencheck api service: With the Green Web Foundation greencheck api service it is possible to check if a website is green against our Green Web database.

Usage

The greencheck api service can be used by calling the /greencheck/{url} script at this url. http://api.thegreenwebfoundation.org/greencheck/{url}

The greencheck api service expects only one parameter : "url". This should be the url of a website without the "http://" part, so just "www.example.com".

http://api.thegreenwebfoundation.org/greencheck/www.example.com

This url parameter is checked and the result is returned to the calling script. The result contains a couple of fields:

• If the url was not valid, then only an error field is returned
• For a correct url, both the url and the green field are returned. Green is either true or false. For websites that are hosted on a known hosting provider we return a "hostedby" and "hostedbywebsite" with either the Name and website of the hosting provider.

Looking up "www.cleanbits.nl" with the greencheck api

  http://api.thegreenwebfoundation.org/greencheck/www.cleanbits.nl

returns the following json result

{
"green":true,
"url":"www.cleanbits.nl",
"hostedby":"LEASEWEB",
"hostedbywebsite":"www.leaseweb.com"
}

Jquery example

View the source of this webpage to see how you can call the greencheck api service by using jquery

The Green Web add-ons

There are add-ons that use this api, available at The Green Web Foundation webiste, called The Green Web. It shows you for every website you visit if it is green, and if so the hosting party.

Widgets

In the future, we will add some widgets to this page, so that you can easily put a greencheck widget on your site, without the need to code it yourself