Brandwatch API / Doing things bigger with the API

Tian Yang US Analytics, tian@brandwatch.com | Tel: +44 (0)1273 234 290

May 2014

Contents

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• About the Brandwatch API

• Getting Started

• API in Action

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Brandwatch API

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Brandwatch API / Brandwatch on the Go

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The power of Brandwatch API

• Automate & iterate tasks!

• Generate reports

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Brandwatch API / Brandwatch on the Go

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API Request Types

• GET

• POST

• PUT

• PATCH

• DELETE

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OAuth2

• Grants access to Brandwatch

Formats/Data Types• API2 supports 4 data types

• JSON (recommended)

• XML

• CSV

• XLSX

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Getting Started

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Getting Started / Logging In

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OAuth/Tokens

• To login, get tokens

Getting Information• In request headers in the format: Authorization: bearer [your token]

• In the URL as a parameter: &access_token=[your token]

• Basic requests are

• /projects/summary

• /project/{projectid}/queries

• /project/{projectid}/queries/{queryid}

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Action

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