Protocols/AOL/Midas/Megaphone

Megaphone is the API and system developed in-house by AOL to be used exclusively with the chat system for AOL Desktop Gold.

Backend Language

Megaphone is completely coded in JS or Javascript. When a user accesses AOL Desktop Gold and goes to access the chat system, Megaphone is what powers it. Megaphone is loaded in the client as a minified version of itself, this is so the file size will be smaller.

POST Requests

api/v1/categories

This allows to get the chat categories available.

Request parameters: “locale”: The language that you would like results to be displayed in.

Response: A list of categories.

Response Name	Response Description
id	UUID (identifier) of the category
name	Name of the category
locale	The language of the category
adult	Is this category an adult category?
createdAt	Created at time in milliseconds
displayName	Display name
isCreatedByAolMember	Is this category created by an AOL member? (See adult if so)
isPrivate	Is this category private?