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FAQs for Otter API
Max number of query terms =14. Even operators such as “OR” “AND” are considered as a query term. Thus – “obama” AND “osama” OR “trump” – is considered as 5 terms.
Topsy video content includes the domains: youtube, twitvid and vimeo.
Topsy image search sources include: twitpic, yfrog, instagr.am,i.imgur, plixi,lockerz, twitter.com.
It is an internal-only attribute and most partners can ignore it. It shows the number of tweets that were used for ranking.
The response times for all API calls with default values is within 2 seconds.
Currently approx 200K/hour will be hitting our max capacity.
No, currently we don’t have the ability to enable batch calls to get url/trackback metrics. Partners/users will have to call the trackbacks API with one URL at a time to get their trackback counts and details.
We used credits in the past for rate limiting our API. As of Sept 1st 2011, we switched to queries; (i.e. every call made to Otter is considered a query regardless of which specific call).
It usually depends on the number of results contained in the result. Otter API lets you get 10 pages with a maximum of 100 results per page, resulting in 1,000 results and 10 queries, one for each page.
Yes, every call to Otter is considered as a query.
Yes, if you are looking for results in a specific language you will have to do multiple queries.
Yes, you can do this by using the ‘OR’ operator.