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With Viralheat's powerful pipeline API's you can embed social media intelligence into your applications enabling the strategic business decisions that optimize performance across your organization – all from one vendor, all through one platform, at an incredible price.

The Viralheat Pipeline API is designed to return the analytics generated by Viralheat. The REST API returns the raw mentions, statistics, trends and all the data in Social trends in XML.

What can it be used for?

Viralheat vast collection of social media data can be used to power a variety of applications. Some of those could be:
  • Ad Networks
  • Political intelligence
  • Charting applications
  • Internal dashboards
  • Content placement
  • Research projects
  • Visualization projects

Truly, the possibilities are endless.

Getting Started

Social trends offers users a subset of paid aggregated and analyzed data for free. If you use Social Trends statistics to power your applications, we appreciate attribution.
  • Limitations
    • Calls per day
      • Viralheat allows 500 or 1500 calls per day/IP address depending on your plan. If you would like to request more calls, please contact Us
Viralheat offers a rich and powerful social media analytics dataset for paying customers. Every data piece displayed in the system can be exported via Viralheat's API platform. Before you get started, keep these things in mind:
  • API Key
    • The REST API has number of methods that require authentication. To obtain an API key, please login to our account and go to My Accounts->API.
  • Profile Plan
    • Your account must have a professional or business plan in order to access Viralheat's Pipeline API. To upgrade your existing account go here or signup here.
  • Calls per day
    • Viralheat allows 500 calls per day/ip address for professional plan users and 1,500 calls a day for business plan users. If you would like to request more calls, please contact Us

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