Fetch details of an author

GET /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/authors/{author_id}

You can fetch all data concerning an author by its id.

note that authors depend on alerts. A same author, for instance the website http://www.spaceinnovations.net may have id 1 for alert 112233, and id 345 for alert 112233. As with tags, you cannot use the author of one alert for another.

Parameters

  • account_id (string) - Id of the account
  • alert_id (number) - Id of the alert
  • author_id (number) - Id of the author

Page content

Minimal curl example

curl -ig 'https://api.mention.net/api/accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/authors/{author_id}' \
    -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
    -H 'Accept-Version: 1.15'

Request example

  • Headers
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
Accept-Version: 1.15
  • Body

None

Response example

  • Body
{
    "id": "22817438340",
    "alert_id": 112233,
    "author_unique_id": "fr.news.yahoo.com",
    "kind": "web",
    "url": "https:\/\/yahoo.com",
    "name": "fr.news.yahoo.com",
    "score": 58,
    "scored_id": "fr.news.yahoo.com"
}

Kind

kind

This is the kind of author we are talking about: web or twitter.

Score

score

This is the influence score given to the author, identified by its scored_id. The value is at 0 (zero) for author with the lowest influence, and 100 (one hundred) for author with the highest influence.

Scored id

scored_id

This is the id being scored. Very important in web, as influence rating may differ between a host and a subdomain of a same site...