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Asked: 2026-06-01T18:23:35+00:00

I have a website A with a database and a search engine of some

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I have a website A with a database and a search engine of some object, user can create account on my website then add comment for these objects.
I need to create an api with something like a plugin, it will result on having the seach engine on another website B.

I have planned to do like fb or twitter plugins : the dev who want to use my api will just need to add a line of js, and a line of html on website B, then it will load the plugin. But I’m wondering how to organize it.

Here it what I’ve guessed : I create a page on my website A, put the search engin on it. I create a js that will load this page whithin an iframe, on the dev’s page (website B), under the div he added to have my plugin. Then I implement OAuth 2 (with a provider and so, so people can do post requests to alter my db), and people who is one the website B will have the ability to post comment on the objects of the search engine on website B.

Actually it seems to be the same as fb comment plugin process, but it seem too complicated to do all that stuff. Is it the right way? Can anyone detail the problems that I should face during implementation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to develop a decent API which can return search result in JSON (and XML if you want to please everyone). That already would offer other developer the ability to use your site functionalities, that’s mostly back end work tho. So they can develop their own widget.

    To develop your own widget as a search widget you don’t need that much, you just need either a set target (maybe a required element) or/and an initialization method (more flexibility for the dev) to which you pass a target.

    Bind the search button, grab terms search, call your API and when you get your result display them or/and execute a custom callback pass the result as an argument, flexibility)

    If you do your javascript well you can create a little API there too which facilitate the usage of your API via javascript. And then even easily port it to a jQuery plugin or something similar.

    When serving JSON always remember to set your headers for your API to allow for crossdomain or go for jsonp instead.

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