Prosper Developer Services allow users to acquire data from and interact with the
Prosper Marketplace in two ways:
We provide a WSDL based web-service that can be called to get public information
about the Prosper Marketplace. It allows ad-hoc querying of the Prosper Marketplace so you can develop richer
more powerful tools for bidding, listing and portfolio analysis than the Prosper
Marketplace web interface can provide.
Imagine tracking Prosper Marketplace performance
to other indices, for example the S&P 500, LIBOR, or the surf conditions at Ocean Beach.
You don't think it correlates? Try it and find out.
Authenticated Webservice API
In addition, the webservice also provides extended credit and lender specific data via an authenticated API. For the inital
release this includes extended credit fields on the Listing object and a new LenderLoan object.
Click here to get started with the API
We provide a complete snapshot of all listings, bids, user profiles, groups
and loans ever created on Prosper.
This snapshot is updated nightly. We provide this data in a raw XML format. Additionally,
we will also provide the tools to import the XML data into the database of your
choice (e.g. SQLServer, MySQL, Access, etc.)
This is a very powerful resource to both developers as well anyone familiar with
Microsoft Excel. Consider the possibilities. You can:
- Build graphs and trends of listing rates
- Use bidding patterns to determine the best lending strategies
- Compare groups using your own research
- Create a loan portfolio analysis tool
- Monitor changes to the marketplace over time
- Explore our dynamic marketplace offline using your own tools
Extended credit and loan performance via private download
In addition, for authenticated lenders an additional download is available. This
private data download (XML) offer 2 additional data objects CreditProfile and LoanPerformance
for access to the extended credit profile and individual loan performance.
This data is explicity prohibited from row level publication and distribution.
Whether you're considering using Prosper for an academic research paper, loan
analysis, or creating a start-up of your own using Prosper, we welcome your participation.
Use the data export as a great place to start. It's available now and if you sign
up for the mailing list we'll try to answer any technical questions or issues you
may have.
Click here to get started with the Data Export
All API Services are subject to the API Terms of Use.
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