New year, new API features...
Dear Nestovelopers,
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the new year did not bring much to our API. Quite to the contrary, in fact. Over the festive break we’ve been busy adding two useful API features.
Are you sure it is where you say it is?
We believe that location is the key component for property search and we put lot of work in our geolocation algorithms. As anyone who has ever used address data to put a pin on a map will tell you, this is not as trivial problem as it may sound.
We have long since known that not all listings can be located with the same degree of certainty. In order to shield our users from poorly-geolocated listings we have long been showing only those listings for which we are fairly confident that we have located them accurately.
However, we have since realized that this might not be enough information for those developers using our API. In some use scenarios developers might want to use only the most-accurately located listings or they might want to implement their application logic based on the location accuracy.
To enable this level of granularity, from version 1.19 we are passing location_accuracy field with each listing requested through our API. This parameter gives an indication of how accurate the latitude and longitude provided are. The value returned ranges from 1 to 10, with 10 being the best, although we typically withhold listings with low location accuracy anyway.
Would you like your rent warm or cold?
Second improvement relates to the addition of “Cold Rent” price field to our API. This change will not be applicable to all countries that we currently operate, but it will be very handy for those developing applications for German market.
For those that are not familiar with the concept - Cold Rent denotes the basic portion of the rent, paid just for the space rented and therefore exclusive of other standing charges and fees. We have recently added this feature to our core product and wanted to make it available through the API as well.
Nestoria API - all the features, all the time
We are very keen to expose all Nestoria functionality through the API. These two new features just show that we are constantly updating Nestoria API in order to align it with our core functionality.
We are hoping that this will encourage you to build amazing applications on top of our data. Why don’t you have a look at the documentation and have a go yourself!
