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David Anderson edited this page May 1, 2023
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BOINC provides APIs for various types of applications and web sites that interact with BOINC components:
- Client GUIs: Applications that control local or remote BOINC clients.
- Credit statistics web sites: Web sites showing credit information (project totals, user/team/country leaderboards) based on daily XML feeds of statistics data from BOINC projects. The XML format is documented here.
- Account managers: Web sites that let BOINC users create and manage accounts on multiple projects.
- Aggregate credit statistics: Web RPCs for getting cross-project credit data for hosts, teams and users.
- Web RPCs: These interfaces let a program or web site obtain information about projects, and create/edit entities (users, teams, hosts) on projects.
- Local editing of preferences: This mechanism lets you write programs for local editing of preferences.
- APIs for remote job submission, management of input files, and fetching output files.
- Cross-project user identification
- Keywords
- Specialized download pages
Check the index of add-on software before writing anything (it may already exist). The index has instructions for submitting new add-ons.