Hooks Data API

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Hooks Data API

Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

data.hooks.co

#webhooks#realtime data#data api#open data

145points
25comments
#282of 2,155 in 2018
Top 14%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.

Idea: 4 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Nifty, interesting use cases for developers

    From 2 comments
    • This looks nifty. On the outbound side having a SNS topic publish option (with customer supplied AWS access and secret key) would likely be popular with the serverless crowd.
      koolba on HN
    • Really cool! Looks like some interesting stuff can be done with this. So I get to passively pick up updates from your channels? I wish there was more stuff like this instead of…
      myaso on HN
  • Seen as a practical implementation of the semantic web

    From 1 comment
    • Nothing firm yet, I really would have to take a look at the data closely. This looks like a practical implementation of the semantic web. You caught me on short notice, I'm going…
      myaso on HN

Objections

  • Twitter docs had a copy-pasted Pinterest description

    From 1 comment
    • FYI in the "Channels" section under twitter your have the same description as for pintrest.
      NationOfJoe on HN

Requests

  • Add open data portal sources (CKAN)

    From 2 comments
    • Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?
      metaodi on HN
    • First of all, there are many open data portals around, so this might be a good source of quality data no matter what. CKAN is currently the de-facto standard for these kind of…
      metaodi on HN
  • Historical data access

    From 1 comment
    • Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?
      elyase on HN
  • SNS publish outbound option

    From 1 comment
    • This looks nifty. On the outbound side having a SNS topic publish option (with customer supplied AWS access and secret key) would likely be popular with the serverless crowd.
      koolba on HN
  • Advertising API integrations

    From 1 comment
    • Any plans to integrate with advertising APIs so you can run/edit campaigns based on this data? Seems to be potentially a really useful mechanism especially around concurrently…
      jsonne on HN

Questions

  • How is it different from Superfeedr and what is pricing

    From 1 comment
    • How is this different from Superfeedr? What will be your pricing?
      earlyriser on HN
  • Does it allow access to historical data

    From 1 comment
    • Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?
      elyase on HN

Alternatives named

  • Superfeedr

    From 1 comment
    • How is this different from Superfeedr? What will be your pricing?
      earlyriser on HN
  • IFTTT and Microsoft Flow

    From 1 comment
    • I'll definitely test this with Twitter! I'm using IFTTT to send webhooks from twitter and the delay can get up to 15 minutes. I also tested Microsoft Flow and the delay was…
      assafmo on HN

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