Category: API

To hydrate Reddit posts from the output of the AIReD API, this Jupyter notebook can be used. For simpler use case, this Python script, that does not require a Reddit API key, can be used (substitute the AIReD results in the URLS array):

AIReD is harvesting Mastodon social media posts, and the social media post IDs can be downloaded from either the API or the Dashboard (for instance by executing text search queries). Once a text search is executed, some Mastodon post IDs can be downloaded in CSV format, for instance: The next logical step is to get the contents of said social media posts, which requires a bit of coding. To get the original social media posts, you first need to get […]

Some steps in this tutorial require Python, versions 3.8 and greater, to be installed along with the python packages requests, matplotlib and wordcloud. The Twitter API contains an endpoint which allows authorized users (details on how to attain access is listed here) to attain variety of information about the Tweet specified by the requested tweet ID or list of tweet IDs. There are a number of ways in which an interesting list of tweet ids may be attained, one of […]