Topsy's Otter API

Otter API is a RESTful HTTP web service to Topsy. Topsy is a search engine that ranks URLs by the number and quality of tweets they receive. The quality of tweets is determined by the influence of the Twitter users (referred to as authors) - which is based on their position in the retweet network. URLs that are mentioned by important authors are ranked higher.

The Otter API provides access to topsy search results, url information and author information along with the intermediate data (like author influence) that is used in creation of search rankings. http://topsy.com/ has been created using the Otter API, and almost everything available on the site is accessible to developers.

The list of Resources describe the available resources and how to query them.

What can you do with Otter?

Here are a few example queries:

• Fresh results for the query "kindle"

• Canonical results for the query "apple"

• The influence level of "barackobama" Twitter account

• The most popular stories on "wired.com" today

• All tweets that mention http://topsy.com/

• Twitter users who talk about "scala"

Otter Application Directory

If you create something with the Otter API that you want to share with the rest of the world, send us a note at api@topsy.com and we'll add to the UsesOtter list.

Happy hacking!