PowerTrack API

Powerful filtering with complete coverage of the data you need, delivered in realtime - available now.

Overview

New features, version differences, and sample payloads.

Rules & Filtering

List of supported operators and more.

Recovery and Redundancy Features

Replay, Backfill, Redundant Connections, and Additional Streams.

API Reference

How to make a request to the API.

Code Samples

Code snippets to get your started.

FAQs

Get answers to frequently asked questions.



API Summary


PowerTrack now includes features such as the cashtag ($) operator, lower latency, and enhanced reliability while still offering the reliable, enterprise-grade filtering engine to deliver you Twitter data in realtime.

Change Log


Below is a list of recent changes to the API:

  • [01/23/2017] Quote Tweet filtering is now supported with Replay API requests.
  • [01/23/2017] Quote Tweets are now fully rehydrated within Replay 2.0 Tweet payloads.
  • [01/17/2017] Quote_count and reply_count now availabale in original format payloads.
  • [12/05/2016] Rule management (get and delete) by RuleID is now available for PowerTrack 2.0 and PowerTrack Replay 2.0
  • [08/01/2016] Replay 2.0 is now supported for PowerTrack 2.0.
  • [08/01/2016] Klout 2.0 is now supported for PowerTrack 2.0.
  • [04/01/2016] Excess connection leniency, extra connections are now disconnected after a short grace period instead of blocked immediately.
  • [04/01/2016] Volume/Connection Graphs have been added to the console.
  • [03/08/2016] Emojis are now supported as keywords.
  • [03/08/2016] Rule IDs now delivered in Rule API responses and matching rule element of tweets.
  • [03/08/2016] Additional foreign language tokenization now supported.

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