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Real-time sentiment & analytics social finance API

Announcing a 1.0 beta API that exposed FSWire's real-time social analytics (sentiment, volume and trending for US and UK securities and FX pairs) as JSON, free for personal use.

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Written in 2013. Technologies, companies and links mentioned may have moved on since.

Part of my FSWire series, written in 2013 while I was building a social-data analytics platform for financial markets. Kept here as originally published.

I have been locked in a dark room for the last 3 weeks building out a new API which opens up access to the social analytics generated by our platform providing real time social analytics including sentiment, volume and trending for major US/UK securities and FX pairs in JSON format.  This has come about after many requests from our existing (and potential) customers to open up our technology stack for integration purposes.

The API is free for personal use and provides a very cost-effective way to experiment with the data, increasing the cost, only as your usage increases.  Documentation link is here.

This is a version 1.0 beta release, while we fine tune performance, scalability and functional scope. We hope to iterate fast which requires considerable input from our existing eco-system of users.

Thus if you don’t ask for features you won’t get them - so ask away !

Social Stream Widget

Social Stream Widget built with our new API

So what does our API provide ?

  • Key Technicals focus on the social data we pull from Twitter and other media
  • Analytics on URIS
  • Social Relevance
  • Rest/Streaming access

These are the same APIs on which our social dashboard is developed, so you can start embedding live streams and social charting within your LOB applications today !