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How We Moved from Subversion to Git / GitHub

Posted by Tim Ledlie on Tuesday, April 10 2012

In February and March, 2012, Kiva moved from Subversion to Git. We're six years old and have use... (more)

Kiva Engineering: Tools of the Agile Trade

Posted by Cailin Nelson on Thursday, March 3 2011

At Kiva, our development process is based on Scrum - with work broken into two week Sprints (we ca... (more)

Kiva Engineering: Innovation Iteration

Posted by Cailin Nelson on Thursday, February 10 2011

At Kiva, we tend to attract and hire engineers with a strong creative, entrepreneurial streak.  ... (more)

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Re: Corrupt files in XML Snapshot (kiva_ds_xml.zip)

Updated at 00:56 PST on Friday, May 17 2013

Corrupt files in XML Snapshot (kiva_ds_xml.zip)

Updated at 00:12 PST on Friday, May 17 2013

New throttle limits

Updated at 13:14 PST on Thursday, May 16 2013

Re: portfolio yield in the api?

Updated at 05:26 PST on Sunday, May 5 2013

Ready to Explore?

Check out our section on Getting Started or jump straight to testing out some of the API methods below.

API Spotlight

lenders/<id>/teams

Returns teams that a particular lender is a member of.

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teams/<ids>

Get detailed information about a lending team or a list of teams.

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loans/newest

This method returns all of the loans raising funds right now at Kiva, newest first.

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Data Snapshots

Need to work with a lot of our data all at once? Every night we archive public data from the Kiva API into easily downloadable snapshots. Grab them in your favorite format here:

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API Status

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Build 6b5dfe1c304fb8448f9be0c4194ccd7b47a1f90e was released 8 hours, 18 minutes ago.

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