Authors
Thomas Ludwig, Christian Reuter
Abstract
This deliverable presents the EmerGent Social Media API for continuously gathering data from
various social media services. The document provides a documentation of the functionality
and endpoints for accessing data from different social media services; this includes:
- a discussion about selected social media services the API focuses on
- a discussion of potentials of related technologies and APIs
- an overall API architecture design
- the data structure and its representation
- a technical functionality overview and documentation
Purpose of the Document
The API aims at establishing a technical basis infrastructure for the following technical work
packages. The detail targets are:
- Selection of a subsection of social media services this API focuses on
- Designing and implementing the technical API
In order to archive this purpose the following tasks have been performed:
- We have reviewed related approaches for gathering social media spanning data
- We have designed the overall architecture of the API
- We implemented and tested the API