When it comes to scrubbing important documents for an investigative project, there’s no better tool than DocumentCloud. But when it came to managing those documents through our own Django-powered CMS, as opposed to relying on the DocumentCloud web interface each time, we were out of luck. So we built a bridge and threw the code into GitHub.
This is a technical post about how MuckRock recently integrated DocumentCloud’s services into our site using their API. If you are creating a Django based site and are interested in how to integrate DocumentCloud into your site, read on!
A simple Python wrapper for the DocumentCloud API