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Welcome to the home for SoftLayer API documentation! Whether you are an IT professional, a developer for the next great startup, or a hobbyist you are welcome to learn about the SoftLayer API and how it interfaces with our backend systems and services. We have a general overview of the SoftLayer API available for a quick reference.
Whether you are a first time developer new to using an API or a WSDL consuming guru, we have you covered with our Getting Started Guide. Providing information on: choosing a communication protocol, initial API setup requirements, and a few basic code samples the getting started guide will have you up and running in no time. A few other things you may want to check out:
The SoftLayer API can be used with any programming language that has support for either the SOAP, XML-RPC, or REST protocols. Each protocol has its advantages and disadvantages with you the developer having the power to choose what best fits your needs. SoftLayer has been working on examples to get you up and running quickly. Currently we have examples for the following languages: C#, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Visual Basic .NET. We also are compiling code snippets for common requests, which are easy to port to your programming language of choice and speed up development time.
We would also encourage you to share your work with the community. We are always looking for examples and different programming language implementations not already listed here. If you are interested, feel free to check out the SoftLayer github channel or post what you have been working on in the SLDN Forums.
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August 12, 2010 : New SLDN blog post
August 11, 2010 : .NET REST Tool created.
August 10, 2010 : Ruby client updated.
August 5, 2010 : Ruby manual page created.
July 31, 2010 : Ruby client released.
July 23, 2010 : New SLDN blog post
July 9, 2010 : Stratos updated.
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Looking for something else?
This wiki is here for developers to learn how to work with SoftLayer's backend systems and sample pplications.
- If you need support for your SoftLayer servers or services please visit the KnowledgeLayer or open a support ticket in our customer portal.
- We are open to any and all suggestions, so please let us know if you would like to see anything else on this wiki. Either open a support ticket or send us an email to sldn@softlayer.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

