Many social APIs

Each of the previous chapters focused on a particular social media platform that has been popular in the recent years. Fortunately, the story is not over. Many platforms provide social networking functionalities, as well as a nice API to mine data from. On the other hand, providing a comprehensive description of all the possible APIs with exhaustive examples and interesting use cases would go far beyond the scope of this book.

In order to provide food for thought, this chapter tackles two aspects of social media mining. Firstly, we'll walk through a few interesting APIs in order to search or mine complex entities such as videos, open source projects, or local businesses. Secondly, we'll discuss what to do if a nice Python client is not available for a particular API.