Yandex.Disk opens API

Almost a month ago, Yandex.Disk started. During this time, we invited on board more than 150,000 people, prepared several software updates for Windows and Mac OS X and finalized the web interface. The service team has a lot of development plans in store, and already now there are several new features in development that you have repeatedly asked about.

We thank everyone who participates in the beta testing of the Disk and sends us feedback and bug reports.

Today we will talk about the recently opened Yandex.Disk API and the first program written with it. The API documentation currently contains only a description of the WebDAV protocol methods that allow you to manage data in the Disk. In the future, we plan to supplement it with new methods.
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Many of you asked about the Yandex.Disk client for Linux, which in addition to working with data in the Disk, would allow you to store a local copy of the files. Today, as an example of a program written using the API, we will talk about a prototype client for Linux created by our colleague Alexey Kapranov .

Immediately make a reservation that this is a prototype, not a full-fledged program, and we do not recommend using it in the current implementation to synchronize important data. The current version is available on GitHub - about 130 lines of Perl code. The client has so far only rudimentary error handling, as well as the simplest interface.

If you are committed and able to program, try to modify the prototype! Or use the Disk API to create completely new programs and applications. They will help us to understand in what direction the API should evolve.

Yandex.Disk team