# How to use opendesktop.org API
**URL:** https://forum.opendesktop.cc/t/how-to-use-opendesktop-org-api/240
**Category:** Pling
**Created:** [September 25, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.cc/t/how-to-use-opendesktop-org-api/240 "2016-09-25T19:19:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@thuban](https://forum.opendesktop.cc/u/thuban)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.cc/t/how-to-use-opendesktop-org-api/240/1 "2016-09-25T19:19:41Z")
Hi,
I’m trying to write a simple application to find themes. I currently use python and beautifulsoup to parse the website, but it seems to exist an api.
I was wondering where to find any documentation to use it correctly, because I didn’t find anything yet.
Regards.
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### Author:  [@plhardy](https://forum.opendesktop.cc/u/plhardy)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2016, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.opendesktop.cc/t/how-to-use-opendesktop-org-api/240/3 "2016-11-01T20:03:33Z")
Hi, i am in a wider problematic, that is to create a addon for ktuberling.
From the ktuberling maintainer (Albert Astals Cid) i got this information to use download api:
[https://api.kde.org/frameworks/knewstuff/html/index.html](https://api.kde.org/frameworks/knewstuff/html/index.html)
( [https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Get\_Hot\_New\_Stuff](https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Get_Hot_New_Stuff) ).