# Planning out an API

**URL:** <https://discourse.libretime.org/t/planning-out-an-api/341>\
**Category:** Dev Talk\
**Created:** [August 20, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/planning-out-an-api/341 "2019-08-20T14:49:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/planning-out-an-api/341/10 "2020-04-22T18:40:13Z")

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> [@Planning out an API](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/planning-out-an-api/341/7):
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> I maintain the Radio Station plugin for WordPress and we are looking to pull the following from LibreTime: Shows Show Schedule DJ (user) Playlists Live Stream URL We would love to read/write though back into LibreTime, so once the show schedule is passed into WordPress on the first connection, the show schedule can be updated in WordPress the push up into LibreTime. We’d want to create in WordPress new shows that are crated and scheduled in LibreTime, so they publish into WordPress automatic…

The following flow @djtonyz describes above [and here](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/question-about-user-api-uploading-from-wordpress-and-podcast-function/298/32), could be a great use case for [WordPress integration](https://github.com/OpenProducer/openproducer-platform/issues/18) with a new release of [Radio Station plugin](https://github.com/netmix/radio-station) included in [the MVP for stations and podcasters under development](https://github.com/OpenProducer/openproducer-platform/issues/2).

We’re hoping to finalize and launch a paid beta where we’d be delivering services while developing the MVP. Hopefully, that will provide a way to help fund development of the API and related integrations.

Because there’s a wide-ranging need for this functionality, the chances are good we could also run a [successful crowdfunding campaign to make it happen](https://discourse.libretime.org/t/libretime-services-and-other-ways-to-sustain-the-project/326/15).

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