Envato Extras

This article was originally written for the ActiveDen blog by MSFX. Please note that Envato is not affiliated with any of these applications – anyone is free to use the Envato Marketplace API for their product or service.

What’s an “API”? A Pink Igloo? A Pig Itching? Not quite.

The Marketplace’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows the development of applications with access to a range of data from all the marketplaces such as the most popular and latest files. More sensitive data such as your account balance, recent sales, and monthly statements can also be accessed securely using your individual API key!

So what? I’m a designer – why should I be interested in geeky code interface stuff? Well, using the API you can develop apps/sites for your mobile, your desktop, or even your blog. Did I mention you can even design and style your applications however you want? Now that’s pretty cool, right?!

Since the Marketplace API was released about 6 months ago, several authors have jumped in feet first to develop some outstanding contributions for the community.

Let’s see what’s been going on…

Envato Marketplace Mobile

by: hagdesigns
link:http://www.hagportfolio.com/envato/

The Envato Marketplace Mobile is a gorgeous site that displays recent & popular files, popular authors, and the most recent blog posts for each Envato marketplace. As well as looking super stylish from the word go, when browsing each of the 5 available marketplaces the site is re-skinned for that marketplace, making you feel right at home.

In addition to browsing the marketplaces’ files and blog posts in such stylish fashion, using your username & API Key, you can securely access your most recent sales, account balance, commission rate, and monthly sales statements. There is even an upcoming feature where you can have your statements emailed to you! How could you top all of this? Well, you can view all of this whilst skinning the site to the Marketplace of your choice! Seriously cool.

Designed specifically for the iPhone, this site works great on most mobile phones and although I will soon be stroking a shiny new iPhone, it even looks great on my old Sony Ericsson K800i!

This site is definitely the top contender right now. Superb work by hagdesigns.

Envato Marketplace Items WordPress Plugin

by: Derek Herman (Valen Designs)
link: Down the Foxhole: Working with the new Envato Marketplace Items Wordpress Plugin

For those of you with blogs and/or sites powered by WordPress, this plugin is a MUST have. In less than 5 minutes, you can have a neatly formed grid displaying a marketplace’s popular files or the recently uploaded files from a specific category (i.e. music-players on Activeden, wordpress on ThemeForest or icons on GraphicRiver). You can also display a specific user’s latest files (i.e. Bitfade). You can use the plugin multiple times per page so if you’re torn between two categories of files, you can display both! :-)

As well as being able to promote files, this plugin also provides the opportunity to earn referral money by adding your referral id to the hyperlinks!

Awesome work by The WordPress Ninja.

iEnvato AIR Application

by: mpc
link: http://www.blog.mpcreation.pl/ienvato-1-0-released/

iEnvato is a gorgeous little app made with Adobe AIR allowing installation on both MAC and PC! *applause*

This gorgeously-skinned, resizable app, which supports skinning and shortcuts for all 5 marketplaces, displays your 50 most recent sales, which can then be sorted by file name, amount made, or time and date of purchase. There is also a page devoted to statistics, showing your last 50 sales and the income made from each of those sales – a really nice touch for those of us who don’t make 50+ sales a day!

As well as having a slick design, this app also features shortcuts to your author dashboard and chosen marketplace forums, and notifies you of new sales! There is also a very worthy donate button. ;)

Great work mpc, looking forward to more. :)

Envato Product Sales Web Report

by: jernigani
link: http://www.israeljernigan.com/themeforest/iphone_api_report/

Another really cool site that’s been targeted for iPhone users is Jernigani’s Envato Product Sales Web Report App that focuses more on your account details and sales than on browsing the marketplaces.

With recent sales statistics, monthly sales, earnings statistics, your current commission rate, balance, and total earnings, this site provides a lot of information for you.

But wait, there’s more! All the files you have for sale on the marketplaces are displayed along with all the comments for each file so you can easily check your comments whilst checking your sales stats and balance! Awesome!

This app will soon be for sale on the ThemeForest MarketPlace and there is a considerable list of future plans so keep a sharp eye out for it!

Envato App

by: Emroni
link: http://emroni.com/EnvatoApp

This slick Envato app not only shows your balance and number of sales but also your rating, your referral/file earnings, AND all your badges! Love it! Super smooth page transitions will also reveal a list of your last 50 sales and the most recent comments made on your items whilst also providing a link to that item comment from the app. Gorgeous and exceptionally clever work from Emroni!

NB: Due to the awesomeness of this app, you have to be logged into your account in either Safari or Internet Explorer whilst using it to provide the extra information not provided by the marketplace API.

Nvator iPhone App

by: DenonStudio
link: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/nvator/id337047746?mt=8

Nvator is a very sleek native iPhone app that allows you to keep a tab on your Envato account wherever you are. Although it’s a relatively new app, Nvator has already got a slick feel to it and boasts several cool features with the promise of more to come! The current version (v1.1) displays your balance, commission rate, recent sales, and monthly sales in tabular and graphical formats! Upcoming features include viewing buyers’ comments, popular items, and more stats! Awesome work by DenonStudio – definitely keep an eye on this one!

SalesDonkey

by: uDesignStudios
link http://mac.salesdonkey.net/
iPhone app http://iphone.salesdonkey.net/

SalesDonkey is an app for those MAC users out there who want a better way of finding out our account balance than hitting ?R in Safari over and over again.

When minimized, you can decide whether to display your total earnings or account balance alongside the Super Sexy SalesDonkey system tray icon! Once maximized, the app shows your recent sales and, most importantly, how much you’ve made. You can also browse recent comments as well as opening the comment for replying in your browser straight from the app!

Great Little App, Heeee Hawwww! :-)

Envato Sales, Twitter Notification Service

by: danharper
link: http://danharper.me/salesnotifier/

For those of you who user Twitter, which is almost everyone, the Envato Sales Twitter Notification service is a great little app that will send you a message on Twitter every hour on the hour if your balance has changed, keeping you up to date without the need for any other program. For those who don’t use Twitter, what are you waiting for?! This makes it worth signing up for!

Make sure you remember to follow @salesnotifier once you’ve signed up!

Envato Chrome Extension

by: Sitebase
link: http://www.sitebase.be/en/portfolio/envato-chrome-extension/

With this Google Chrome extension you can take a look at your Envato marketplace income. You can view your income in a graph or table.

You can download the extension for free on the Chrome extension website.

iNvatooPro

by: ArtCroky
link: http://bit.ly/iNvatooProAppStore

iNvatooPro is a great application by user ArtCrocky packed with all kinds of features. From checking your sales, to viewing graphs, to sharing on social media sites. This app definitely has something to interest any author or user of the Envato Marketplaces. Check it out today using the link above!

Conclusion

There’s some really impressive work beginning to emerge with the use of the Marketplace API, so hats off to all the authors mentioned and those who have apps in the making! For those of you who want to get your hands dirty with the API, here are some links to get you started.

Introduction to the Marketplace API
API Official Documentation
Make An iPhone App Using the Envato API – Nettuts+
Display Anything You Want From The Envato MarketPlace API Using PHP

The Envato Marketplace has an API which allows outside applications to access the marketplaces easily and safely. You can use it to build all sorts of awesome apps!

What’s an API?

An application programming interface (API) is a set of routines, data structures, object classes and/or protocols provided by libraries and/or operating system services in order to support the building of applications. You can find out more about APIs here.

Apps that use the Envato Marketplace API

The Envato Marketplace API means that talented developers can build applications to access the Envato marketplaces, and that they can access account information such as author sales or referrer earnings without the user needing to provide their username and password details.

Where you can find your API key

If you’re using an app that requires your API key, you can find it by visiting your Account page then clicking the My Settings tab. At the bottom of the page you’ll find your account’s API key and a button to regenerate it as needed.

API documentation

If you’re a developer and would like to use the Envato Marketplace API for an application you’re developing, you can access all the documentation here.

Please visit Envato Extras for a current list of API tools and information

Envato Extras

• Member means a person who is registered as a Member by completing and submitting the Membership application, accepts the Membership Terms and Conditions and that application is accepted by Envato.
• In these API Terms, a reference to “we” or “us” means Envato and a reference to “you” or “your” means a Member.
• Application is any software application or service that you create which uses the API Service.
• Sites : the following Envato Marketplace web sites, including but not limited to:

In using the API Service, you agree to the following:

1. You must have a valid and active Envato Membership account that has not been disabled or terminated by Envato.
2. You must act in good faith at all times and provide such assistance and co-operation as we reasonably request.
3. The API Service will usually be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week or as otherwise stated on the Sites. Envato may, in its absolute discretion, and for any reason, and at any time, with or without notice interrupt or suspend your right to access the whole or any part of the Sites; and/or alter, interrupt or suspend the provision of the whole or any part of the content and/or the services available on the Sites. You agree that Envato will not be liable to you for any loss that you may suffer as a result of any such interruption, suspension or alteration.
4. Applications may not include the trademarked word Envato in the application name, though the Envato trademark may be included in a descriptive subtitle. e.g. "AuthorWorks – The Envato Marketplace Author App".
5. Applications must acknowledge use of the API Service, by including the “Powered by Envato API” banner.
6. Applications must only make requests from the API Service that is absolutely necessary.
7. You must protect the privacy and legal rights of your Application’s users. If the Application’s users provide you with, or your Application accesses or uses, user names, passwords, or other login information or personal information, you must make the Application’s users aware that the information will be available to your Application, and you must provide legally adequate privacy notice and protection for those Application’s users. Further, your Application may only use that information for the limited purposes for which the Application’s user has given you permission to do so. If your Application stores personal or sensitive information provided by Application’s users, it must do so securely and only for as long as it is needed. If the Application’s user provides your Application with Member Accounts information, your Application may only use that information to access the Application user’s Member Accounts when, and for the limited purposes for which, the Application user has given you permission to do so.
8. You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Envato has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any Applications you distribute and for the consequences of your actions (including any loss or damage which Envato may suffer) by doing so.
9. You agree that you are solely responsible for (and that Envato has no responsibility to you or to any third party for) any breach of your obligations under this Membership Terms, any applicable third party contract or terms of service, or any applicable law or regulation, and for the consequences (including any loss or damage which Envato or any third party may suffer) of any such breach.
10. You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Envato and Envato’s affiliates, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising in any way from your use of the Sites, your placement or transmission of any Product, message, content, information, software or other materials through the Sites, or your breach or violation of the law or of these Membership Terms. Envato reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and in such case, you agree to cooperate with Envato’s defense of such claim.
11. Envato may, at its sole discretion, revise or change these API Terms (in whole or in part) from time to time and at any time without notice to you. Changes in the API Terms will be effective at the time notice of the change is posted by us on the Sites. It is your responsibility to check for these notices. Your continued use of the API Service after any changes to the Membership Terms are posted will be considered acceptance of those changes.
12. The laws of New South Wales, Australia govern this API Terms. Each of Envato and the Member irrevocably and unconditionally submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales, Australia.