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Python Social Media Analytics
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Python Social Media Analytics

by Siddhartha Chatterjee, Michal Krystyanczuk
July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
312 pages
7h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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RESTful API

This is the most common type of API that most social media provides. The information from a REST API is static and is from historical data. The back history of data can vary from platform to platform. Facebook calls its REST API service Graph API.

Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest among others have given access to their APIs to the public through robust data infrastructures. Another real-time version of the RESTful API of Twitter is the Streaming API. The two are inherently similar, but with different usages. We will explore the standard RESTful APIs of the most common platforms and also the Streaming API of Twitter.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer and it relies on the HTTP protocol for data transfer between machines. ...

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ISBN: 9781787121485