= APIs for add-on software = BOINC provides APIs for various types of applications and web sites that interact with BOINC components: * [GuiRpc Client GUIs]: Applications that control local or remote BOINC clients. * [CreditStats Credit statistics web sites]: Web sites showing credit information (project totals, user/team/country leaderboards) based on daily XML feeds of statistics data from BOINC projects. The XML format is documented [XmlStats here]. * [AccountManagement Account managers]: Web sites that let BOINC users create and manage accounts on multiple projects. * [StatsXml Aggregate credit statistics]: Web RPCs for getting cross-project credit data for hosts, teams and users. * [WebRpc Web RPCs]: These interfaces let a program or web site obtain information about projects, and create/edit entities (users, teams, hosts) on projects. * [PrefsOverride Local editing of preferences]: This mechanism lets you write programs for local editing of preferences. Check [//addons.php the index of add-on software] before writing anything (it may already exist). The index has instructions for submitting new add-ons.