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Why GOV.UK APIs are changing and how you can get involved

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Why GOV.UK APIs are changing and how you can get involved

We’re exploring how the application programming interfaces (APIs) that deliver content for GOV.UK could evolve to better support an experience spanning multiple digital channels. Find out what we’re doing and why we want to understand more about our users.

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Busting the cache to view an update

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 28 November 2012 - Categories: How we work

...www.gov.uk/government/how-government-works?aksjdk [any random letters will do, but each combination will only work once] If it’s important that a new document appears all around the site the instant it is published,...

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Online consultation tools

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 8 October 2012 - Categories: Working with us

Lots of departments around government have been asking what we’re planning to do about consultations. We realised that we’ve been thinking so hard about it that we’ve not been telling...

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Adding a change note

Posted by: Neil Williams, Posted on: 5 August 2012 - Categories: Product changes

...favour of the date it was originally published. Below is a screengrab of how it looks right now on a policy. (But bear in mind the actual data here is...

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