Protocols/AOL/Midas/Megaphone
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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.
