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

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

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monvural wrote: post #2

Really love this idea. I've started something similar for my content platform Amplifize.com, but am still in very early stages. How can folks help build this out? Could it be an open service?

Thanks! I'm one of the devs on the project; you can contact me directly at Zane@Streamified.com.

To your questions: one of the major benefits of the service is the "crowdsourced" aspect of it. That is: the more people using the same API, the more news articles get found and indexed. Furthermore, the API actually hooks into other paid APIs, so it actually wouldn't work very well for you to run it on your own servers unless you wanted to also pay for them. For all these reasons and more, we think that a hosted API is the best solution.

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

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Post by monvural »

ZaneClaes wrote: post #3
monvural wrote: post #2

Really love this idea. I've started something similar for my content platform Amplifize.com, but am still in very early stages. How can folks help build this out? Could it be an open service?

Thanks! I'm one of the devs on the project; you can contact me directly at Zane@Streamified.com. To your questions: one of the major benefits of the service is the "crowdsourced" aspect of it. That is: the more people using the same API, the more news articles get found and indexed. Furthermore, the API actually hooks into other paid APIs, so it actually wouldn't work very well for you to run it on your own servers u…

Totally agree with all of the above. I'll send you an email to keep the conversation going.

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

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SamirSam wrote: post #6

The idea is good. But clarifying it further, how many API calls per month do you offer or plan ? Correct me if I am wrong, searchable means topic/keyword parsing with context analysis (i.e. intention analysis)?

Our courtesy limit is 1k requests per day to the API. Beyond that, we're happy to discuss what makes sense, we obviously just need to prevent abuse.

Yes, our searching capacities include everything from categories to sentiment to tags to media... you name it. ElasticSearch powers our backend, which is powered by Lucene, so anything in an article can be searched. Check out the articles/search endpoint: https://streamified.me/developer/#endpoint=GET%20articles%2F...

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

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Post by ZaneClaes »

niggler wrote: post #8

If this depends on the individual APIs (especially twitter) and sees any sort of traction, isn't there a massive risk that one of the providers could block access to streamified?

Per our "whitelabeling" philosophy, Streamified actually uses your own app IDs (not ours). From Twitter's perspective, we're just acting as a middleman to help you use their API better; any blockage, then, would be a result of your implementation of their API (throttling, etc).
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