Social Mention

API Documentation

Social Mention provides a feed API for developers access search results in several different formats.

Feed API

The search query feed is read-only data and comes in several formats including RSS, JSON, and KML. It offers a window into what's going on across various social media sites - which you can use in news readers, blogs, or your own third-party applications.

Base URL prefix: 

http://socialmention.com/search

Parameters:
q= Url encoded query term.
f= Response file format (json). RSS will be supported shortly.
t= Type of search (blogs, microblogs, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, videos, all).
l= Location (city and state/province). Required if search type is "events".

Example: 

http://socialmention.com/search?q=ipod&f=json&t=images

API Terms Of Service

  1. You may make use of the Social Mention API for personal, noncommercial use only.
  2. If you make use of or republish Social Mention results, you must provide attribution to Social Mention, either by placing a hyperlink to socialmention.com on the page where the results are displayed, or by giving similar credit on the origin of the results in whatever media or format used.
  3. If you would like to use these results in a commercial manner you must have permission in writing from Social Mention. Please contact hello (at) socialmention (dot) com for more information.