PostRank Data Services >> Request/Response APIs
The PostRank Data Services APIs enable access to content and engagement metrics from the Content Stream and the Engagement Stream. The APIs are categorized based on which stream the underlying data set is derived from.
API Keys for Request/Response APIs
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PostRank Data Services Overview
PostRank Data Services enable access to:
- The PostRank Content Stream: If you're looking for Content. Historical archive and new content indexed on a daily basis.
- The PostRank Engagement Stream: If you're looking for Metrics and Engagement data from the most popular social hubs/networks.
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Content Stream
Content Archive
Our archive encompasses over 3 years of content and reader engagement activities. If you need historical information, we've got it.
Are you interested in knowing what a particular source wrote about a topic during a specific period of time and how the audience reacted? Retrieve specific feed content from our entire archive based on time, keyword or PostRank engagement.
Retrieve a feed’s most engaging recent posts as filtered by PostRank.
Engagement Stream
Metrics
Access to the raw metrics at the Domain, Feed, or Post Level (e.g. # of tweets, bookmarks, diggs, comments, etc. )
Metrics Level: Domain
Time Based: Yes
Discover social interaction metrics at the domain level and track how many tweets, bookmarks, comments (and many more) are taking place for any website. The information is rolled up to a day level and provides information on the domain, subdomain, metric source, date and value.
Metrics Level: Post/Article
Time Based: No
Retrieve the raw social interaction counts for a given story. Track how many tweets, diggs, delicious tags (and many more) are found for a given story.
Metrics in scaled mode returns metrics counts with weightings based on the influence of the user who carried out the engagement activity.
Ranking and Engagement Scores
APIs to discover and rank content based on social engagement activities tracked by PostRank.
Score/Rank Level: Post/Article
Time Based: No
Save time finding and filtering news and information required for your unique application. Rank the URLs against the other URLs provided in the request. Aggregate a collection of story links and query our analytics engine for their PostRank scores. Retrieve PostRank scores for a hand-picked collection of URLs using thematic filters.
Score/Rank Level: Feed
Time Based: Yes
Measure relative engagement of publishers at the feed level. Detect engagement trends and analyze influence on the audience. Retrieve feed engagement scores for any time interval in summary mode (total average min/max engagement) or detailed mode (summary, plus daily breakdowns within the specified interval).
General APIs
The feed information API is provided to allow you to retrieve the feed identifier for a given URL.
Tells PostRank that a feed has been updated and queues that feed for immediate fetching.
Engagement Sources
The list of engagement sources PostRank tracks
