1. CRUK HACKATHON
JustGiving’s APIs
@jghackers

2. Over
15m
users
Over
9,000
charities
over
£1bn
raised
50m API
hits in
2013

4. Innovating together

5. Recent Examples
POW
ERED
BY
Justgiving
APIS

6. Working with CRUK

7. On JustGiving you can…
• Create a fundraising page and donate to it
• Make a direct donation to a charity (one off or recurring)
• You can donate in multiple currencies
• You can donate via SMS (JustTextGiving)
• You can join in a team of fundraisers

8. NEW! Crowdfunding

9. NEW! Crowdfunding

11. 1. Register Fundraising Page
https://api.justgiving.com/docs/resources/v1/Fundraising/Register
• Used to create fundraising pages for users
• Generates 250k+ pages per year on Race For Life
• Can PUT certain content (images, story, videos etc) to the
fundraising page
• Page types include Event based, In Memory, Birthdays etc

12. 2. Get Page Details
https://api.justgiving.com/docs/resources/v1/Fundraising/GetFund
• GET data from any given fundraising page (totals, donation
comments, media etc)
• Used to pull display data in the Race For Life Android
App

13. 3. Get Donations For User
https://api.justgiving.com/docs/resources/v1/Account/GetDon
ationsForUser
• GET donation history (amount, charity, date etc) for any
given user (requires Auth)

14. 4. Account Registration
https://api.justgiving.com/docs/resources/v1/Account/Registe
r
• Create a normal consumer account for a new user based
upon a unique email address.
• Used to create new accounts for Dryathlon users signing
up via the Facebook App

15. Simple Donation Integration (SDI)
No - we don’t have a donation API 
• SDI is a redirect based integration technique
• Allows you to send users to JustGiving to make a donation (optimised
for mobile)
• Users are returned to your site afterwards with some query string magic
• You then use the API to verify the donation
• Simple stuff

16. Sandbox
API = https://api-sandbox.justgiving.com
Platform = www.v3-sandbox.justgiving.com

17. Key to the Kingdom
1. Set yourself up with a developer key at
https://apimanagement.justgiving.com/signup
2. Create an application
https://apimanagement.justgiving.com/admin/applications
3. Point to sandbox
4. Away you go!

18. Test Cards for Donations

19. Useful stuff to know…
CRUK Charity ID = 2357
Test Card Details =
- Master Card
- 5105105105105100
- Any valid looking expiry date / start date / CV2 code
- Auth Code = 12345

20. Help, I’m stuck?!

21. Help is on hand!
1.Come grab us in person!
2.Google Support Group at
https://groups.google.com/
forum/?fromgroups#!forum/justgiving-api
3.Tweet us at @jghackers

22. Useful Links & Documents
• GitHub repository with open source SDKs
https://github.com/JustGiving/JustGiving.Api.Sdk
• Sign up for an API account and create API keys
http://apimanagement.justgiving.com
• Documentation and usage information
https://api.justgiving.com/docs
• Developer portal
http://www.justgiving.com/developer
• Simple Donation Integration guide
http://www.justgiving.com/developer/simple-donation-integration
• Some hack-tastic examples in a few languages
https://github.com/JustGiving/JustGiving.Api.Sdk/wiki
• Logos & Assets
https://justgiving-charity-support.zendesk.com/entries/210512

24. The Growth of mobile on JustGiving
Percentage of mobile & tablet visits to JustGiving

25. A *marathon* amount of mobile traffic

26. Growth of mobile Facebook

27. Mobile Facebook has overtaken desktop Facebook

28. Our mobile journey
Jan 2011 July 2012 October 2012

30. New mobile social sharing

31. Mobile users share more

32. Social begets social
Shared donations that result in
another donation
Shared donations that result in
another share

33. Slacktivism is a myth