Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs

Post by jrussbowman » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:22 PM UTC

ZaneClaes wrote: post #11

jrussbowman wrote: post #10

Sweet, looks like something I could really dig into for unscatter.com I'm curious, are you proxying apis or crawling and keeping the information local to serve?

Thanks! Be sure to drop us a line if you want to dig a bit deeper into integration. For social networks, we're proxying the APIs (essentially). For articles and news, we both aggregate organically discovered articles from streams, as well as scrape 250k+ RSS feeds and other news sources. So, articles are stored local to the server (which is why we have such a large collection of them), but sensitive social informatio…

Post by ZaneClaes » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

akennberg wrote: post #13

Who's behind this? There's not a single name anywhere on the .me or .com sites. It's hard to trust a platform service without knowing who is building it.

Post by ZaneClaes » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

JustARandomGuy wrote: post #15

This is a nice announcement to see, especially your support of searchable article feeds. Quick question: I see in https://streamified.me/developer/#concepts that we can search news articles, is there a list of sites that you cover, or is it safe to assume that you crawl over all major news services (tech, politics, money, etc)? Also like your support for ADN. I have an account there that is sitting empty, might build…

Post by ZaneClaes » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:53 PM UTC

switz wrote: post #17

I could have used this about two months ago. Instead I built a simple npm module – https://github.com/switz/melt This is far better, though.

Post by ZaneClaes » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

mamcx wrote: post #19

I try this with js sample app + twitter auth. I get Error: {"type":"Authentication","status":401,"details":{"message":"OAuth Authentication Failure: invalid oauth_token syntax"}} In the other hand, this could be handy for my news reader app for ipad. This notify of new content? Is this suitable for manage several users, each one with their own rss subscriptions?