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by lrei 3280 days ago
Hi - I've used this API several times. Ask me anything (though there have been been changes since I last used it)
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Neat!

- What did you use it for?

- What where the alternatives you considered?

- What was your overall experience? (eg. data quality or API ease of use)

I used it only for research (1 for media bias analysis related to the refugee crisis and 1 at the intersection of social/media and economy).

I know the people who started EventRegistry (same department/institute as me) so I didn't care so much about finding alternatives (I.e I got free access, I think most research users do have free access)

Data quality was mostly ok but some artifacts of the article content extraction (e.g. Something like readability) were present like bits of social media share buttons. Also some updated articles were not marked as updates but rather as new articles (after some threshold of changes).

The API has been improved since I last used it - but I found it a bit unintuitive and complicated at the time (almost a year ago). From my understanding it is a bit engineered in order to prevent users from accidentally doing expensive queries or pulling in too much data. kind of makes it harder to use. But still simple - you get up and running Withings minutes and just refine your queries as you go. API limits were generous and you could always resume work after the limit reset (I was getting historical data rather than following the stream)

How much does it cost? Minimum?
I got access for free. You should really ask them (they are responsive) I think it depends on org type/size - but the figures I heard unofficially were in the netflix (per user) price range.