Gnip Pushed a New Platform Release This Week

We just pushed out a new release this week that includes new publishers and capabilities. Here is a summary of the release highlights. Enjoy!

• New YouTube publisher: Do you need an easy way to access, filter and integrate YouTube content to your web application or website? Gnip now provides a YouTube publisher so go create some new filters and start integrating YouTube based content.
• New Flickr publisher: Our first Flickr publisher had some issues with data consistency and could almost be described as broken. We built a brand new Flickr publisher to provide better access to content from Flickr. Creating filters is a snap so go grab some Flickr content.
• Now publisher information can be shared across accounts: When multiple developers are using Gnip to integrate web APIs and feeds it sometimes is useful to see other filters as examples. Sharing allows a user to see publisher activity and statistics, but does grant the ability to edit or delete.
• New Data Producer Analytics Dashboard: If your company is pushing content through Gnip we understand it is important to see how, where and who is accessing the content using our platform and with this release we have added a web-based data producer analytics dashboard. This is a beta feature, not where we want it yet, and we have some incomplete data issues. However, we wanted to get something available and then iterate based on feedback. If you are a data producer let us know how to take this forward. The current version provides access to the complete list of filters created against a publisher and the information can be downloaded in XML or CSV format

Also, we have a few things we are working on for upcoming releases:

• Gnip Polling: Our new Flickr and YouTube publishers both leverage our new Gnip Polling service, which we have started using internally for access to content that is not available via our push infrastructure. We plan to make this feature available externally to customers in the future, so stay tuned or contact us if you want to learn more.
• User generated publishers from RSS Feeds: We are going to open up the system so anyone can create new publishers from RSS Feeds. This new feature makes it easy to access, filter and integrate tons of web based content.
• Field level mapping on RSS feeds: A lot of times the field naming of RSS feeds across different endpoints does not map to the way the field is named in your company. This new feature will allow the editing and mapping at the individual field level to support normalization across multiple feeds.
• Filter rule batch updates: When your filters start to get big adding lots of new rules can be a challenge. Based on direct customer feedback it will soon be possible to batch upload filter rules.