Pingerati

Ping Senders

These services support microformats and send microformat update pings to Pingerati. By using these services, your updates are handled automatically!

If your service supports microformats, please ping Pingerati with updates!

Ping Receivers

These services index and aggregate microformats and are automatically notified of Pingerati updates.

Do you have a service that uses microformats and would like to receive microformat pings? Contact us and let us know which specific microformat pings you want to receive (or all microformats). See the About page for details of the types checked. Be sure provide us with your HTTP GET REST API for your ping receiver, as well as a nice logo graphic.

How Pingerati works

Ping multiplexing

Pingerati receives updates of pages with Microformat data in, and passes them on to services that are interested in indexing them. With the growth of services that publish and index microformats, there is a need to connect the publishers with the indexers. The 'ping to update' model has worked well with weblogs, but is not ideal for other kinds of pages that may contain microformats.

Sending Pings

The ping format is a straightforward HTTP GET of http://pingerati.net/ping/[url that is updated].

For example, to ping with the URL 'http://microformats.org/blog/', you would fetch the URL http://pingerati.net/ping/microformats.org/blog/.

Specialized Pings

The main Pingerati URL is meant for pages that have a mixture of microformats in, and will be passed on to services that index multiple formats, such as Technorati. There are services that are only interested in pages with a single kind of microformat. For example, EVDB only collates hCalendar events. To accommodate these specialised services, there are a series of subdomains to receive pings for specific microformat types as follows:

Subdomain	Microformat	Notes
contacts.pingerati.net/ping/	hCard	pages that contain just contacts
events.pingerati.net/ping/	hCalendar	pages that contain just events
reviews.pingerati.net/ping/	hReview	pages that contain just reviews
listings.pingerati.net/ping/	hListing	pages that contain just listings
links.pingerati.net/ping/	xFolk	pages that contain just tagged links

For example, to ping with the events-only URL 'http://epeus.blogspot.com', you would fetch the URL http://events.pingerati.net/ping/epeus.blogspot.com.