APIs for add-on software

BOINC provides documented interfaces making it possible to develop various types of applications and web sites that interact with BOINC components. Examples include:

• Client GUIs: Applications that control local or remote BOINC clients.
• Credit statistics web sites: Web sites showing credit information (project totals, user/team/country leaderboards) based on daily XML feeds of statistics data from BOINC projects. The XML format is documented here.
• Account managers: Web sites that let BOINC users create and manage accounts on multiple projects.
• Aggregate credit statistics: Web RPCs for getting cross-project credit data for hosts, teams and users.
• Web RPCs: These interfaces let a program or web site obtain information about projects, and create/edit entities (users, teams, hosts) on projects.
• Local editing of preferences: This mechanism lets you write programs for local editing of preferences.

Check the index of add-on software before writing anything (it may already exist). The index has instructions for submitting new add-ons.