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The client-side code is available in two forms:

1. Easy: WordPress Plugin

A WordPress plugin that makes it easy to setup and add CiteIt.net-style citation to any WordPress blog.  One nice thing about this plugin is that it adds two new buttons to the editor, for the majority of people who do not hand-code their html

2. Advanced: Javascript Library

A jQuery plugin that you can add to any website to pull in the contextual JSON files generated by the CiteIt.net web service.  The library is a MIT-Licensed jQuery plugin that iterates over all <blockquote> and <q> tags ..

• It then checks to see whether the tag has a “cite” attribute, noting the source of the quotation ..
• If it does, it makes a http-get request to the read.CiteIt.net web service, requesting to retrieve a previously uploaded JSON file.

3. Advanced: Python API Server

This is the code for the API server that the javascript clients talk to when creating a new quote file.

• This program accepts a URL “POST” request
• The program downloads the contents of the POSTED URL and looks for <blockquote cite=”URL1″> and <q cite=URL2″> tags.
• It then downloads the contents of each URL and calculates the context immediately prior and after the quote
• It saves the results to a SQL-lite or PostgreSQL database
• It saves a JSON file to the local filesystem
• It (optionally) uploads the JSON file up to Amazon S3.