Friends and Followers

A histogram of followers and friends (following) counts for each date. Term must = user:name to specify an @name; entering @name will produce unexpected results. Counts are retrieved only from posts that the user has made during the date range specified. If there have been no posts on a given day / time period within that range, the counts from the previous day will be reflected.

Endpoint: http://api.peoplebrowsr.com/friendsandfollowers

Request - Required Parameters

• app_id (STRING) - Eight Digit ID [ex: 84d8620b]
• app_key (STRING) - Thirty-two digit key [ex: 281014ad8b0fba5adcc88fac7d79999c]

Post app registration, your app id and key can be viewed by going to https://developer.peoplebrowsr.com/admin/applications and clicking "view"

Time Period - Only two of three of these need to be used in a string. First & Last, First & Count, or Last & Count. Last & Count will return results the easiest.

• first (STRING) - Defines the start of the time period. If January 1 2012 to February 21, 2012 was the specification required, start with specifying the the first time point with first=2011-01-01. Alternatively, say the specification was between yesterday and today.
• Example(s): first=2011-01-01 first=1323466328 or first=yesterday
• last (STRING) - Defines the end of a time period. To continue the example above, if the date range specified is January 1, 2012 to February 21, 2011, specify last=2011-02-21. Alternatively say the time period you always wanted to measure was today. One could specify last=today, and then use count to specify 14, 30, up to 1000 days back relative to the time range enabled for the account on the API.
• Example: last=2012-02-21 or last=1318195928 OR last=yesterday OR last=today
• count (STRING) - Count is used as a period proxy to specified time periods. The standard time period is a day, so using count, you would specify the last 30, 60, 90, 100, to 1000 days by specifying last=today & count=30 (or another period length).
• Example: count=1 OR 10 OR 100 OR 1000 to specify the time period backward or forward

Request - Option Parameters

• period (STRING) - Integer of the number of seconds that a period constitutes if "count" is specified rather than a start/end date.
  • Default setting: period=86400 (24 hours x 60 minutes x 60 seconds) or one Day
  • Day: Count=30 (30 days)
  • Example: &first=yesterday&count=30 - Specifies chart or histogram to return 30 days (periods) of data with reference to default period setting
  • Hour: Specify period=3600 (60 minutes x 60 seconds) & Count=24 (hours)
  • Example date setting: &first=1323468000&count=24&period=3600 - Returns 1 day of data by hour
• limit (STRING)- Limit search results to the specified number. Limit=20 will only return 20 data points and can be used in histograms or charts.
• number (STRING) - Specifies number of items in non-histogram queries. If the parameter &number=10, the query will only return 10 data points.
• reverse (STRING) - When set to reverse=true, this will reverse the order of the histograms, charts.

Request - Sample URL

http://api.peoplebrowsr.com/friendsandfollowers?last=yesterday&count=4&source=twitter&term=barackobama&app_id=12345&app_key=fds9sdf8wjf23

Response

Responses return 100 data points with JSON format.

Response - Fields

1. #date (DATE)
2. friends (NUMERIC)
3. followers (NUMERIC)
4. status (STRING) - The status of your request (values: submitted, processing, complete)

Sample Response

{ "data": [ [ "2011-09-14", { "followers": 10064193, "friends": 689758 } ], [ "2011-09-15", { "followers": 10076141, "friends": 689703 } ], [ "2011-09-16", { "followers": 10088470, "friends": 689650 } ], [ "2011-09-17", { "followers": 10099017, "friends": 689622 } ], [ "2011-09-18", { "followers": 10114061, "friends": 689592 } ], "id": "1018-76d66df4d4fdc12d9dcf8d08c9795cfe", "request": { "count": 10, "external": true, "generate": 1230336000, "last": 1316736000, "name": "friendsandfollowers", "source": "twitter", "term": "user:barackobama" }, "status": "complete" }