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Mastering Social Media Mining with Python

You're reading from   Mastering Social Media Mining with Python Unearth deeper insight from your social media data with advanced Python techniques for acquisition and analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783552016
Length 338 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Bonzanini Marco Bonzanini
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Preface 1. Social Media, Social Data, and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. #MiningTwitter – Hashtags, Topics, and Time Series 3. Users, Followers, and Communities on Twitter 4. Posts, Pages, and User Interactions on Facebook 5. Topic Analysis on Google+ 6. Questions and Answers on Stack Exchange 7. Blogs, RSS, Wikipedia, and Natural Language Processing 8. Mining All the Data! 9. Linked Data and the Semantic Web

Getting started with the Google+ API


The Google+ API is the programming interface of Google+. This API can be used to integrate your app or website with Google+, similar to what we have already discussed for Twitter and Facebook. This section discusses the process of registering an application and getting started with the Google+ API.

Before starting, we need a Google account (https://www.google.com/accounts) if we haven't registered yet. Google offers several services (for example, Gmail, Blogger, and so on) but the account management is centralized. This means that if you are a user of one of these services, your account can be quickly set up for Google+.

Once you are registered and logged in, the starting point is the Google Developers Console (https://console.developers.google.com/start). From the console, we need to create our first project. Figure 5.1 shows the dialog for project creation, all we need to specify is a name for our project:

Figure 5.1: Creating a project in the Google...
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