F8: Facebook Launches Four New Media APIs

Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday may have been dominated by mobile, but the social network didn’t forget the media, as it introduced four new application-programming interfaces aimed at allowing media organizations to integrate content and data from Facebook into their work.

PublicContentSolutionsGraphic650Facebook’s F8 global developer conference in San Francisco Wednesday may have been dominated by mobile, but the social network didn’t forget the media, as it introduced four new application-programming interfaces aimed at allowing media organizations to integrate content and data from Facebook into their work.

The four new APIs were described as follows on the page for Facebook’s Public Content Solutions initiative:

  • Trending: The Trending API exposes a list of depersonalized trends that people are currently talking about on Facebook.
  • Topic Insights: The Topic Insights API provides aggregate anonymized insights about people mentioning a certain topic.
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