All site plugins, themes and language packs. Terms. Elgg - Open Source Social Networking Engine. Web Services. Elgg provides a powerful framework for building web services.
This allows developers to expose functionality to other web sites and desktop applications along with doing integrations with third-party web applications. While we call the API RESTful, it is actually a REST/RPC hybrid similar to the APIs provided by sites like Flickr and Twitter. To create an API for your Elgg site, you need to do 3 things: expose methods setup API authentication setup user authentication Additionally, you may want to control what types of authentication are available on your site.