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Jim Murphy replied on December 10, 2009 22:09 to the question "How do i get application key?" in PostRank:

Hi Vinoth,

Follow me over here:
http://data.postrank.com/api_getstart...

And I'll help you out by creating an API key for you.

You can find API docs here:

http://apidocs.postrank.com/

Talk to you soon.

Jim Murphy replied on November 10, 2009 18:33 to the idea "AideRSS support in FeedDemon" in PostRank:

One problem with using PostRank to filter the feeds is that you can't easily tweek the filter setting and get instant UI feedback - because you simply wouldn't have the items that were filtered out int he feed.

I would keep feed subscriptions the same and just call seperately for postranks. You pass in item urls we pass pack 1-10 scores.

See:
http://apidocs.postrank.com/PostRank-API

Seems more additive rather than invasive.

Jim

Jim Murphy replied on October 06, 2009 20:21 to the question "API call for the ordered Feed List?" in PostRank:

Hi Jon,

Correct this is a different API key that we provide to you. We also need to get our commercial license in place and discuss pricing. I'll contact you via email and we can turn it up to 11.

(sorry - couldn't resist)

Jim Murphy replied on October 06, 2009 14:00 to the question "API call for the ordered Feed List?" in PostRank:

Hi Jon,

That API is part in the Data Mind APIs - part of our Data Services products. Those require commercial license for any commercial use or even non-commercial use over 1000 calls per day.

More details on the site:
http://data.postrank.com

The specific API you want is called Feed Rank. Its documented on our Developer Wiki:
http://apidocs.postrank.com

Specifically,
http://apidocs.postrank.com/Feed-Rank...

Let me know if I can set you up with an API key to get started. To do that please submit the "Getting Started" Form and I'll pick you up on the other side.

http://data.postrank.com/api_getstart...

Jim Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 15:15 to the idea "It would be great to add tasks to a story" in Pivotal Labs:

Love that too - would keep us from sliming the backlog with many chores that serve the same purpose. Thing with those is that the tasks get quickly disconnected from the feature when you start them.

Jim Murphy started following the idea "It would be great to add tasks to a story" in Pivotal Labs.

Jim Murphy replied on April 28, 2009 21:55 to the problem "Do you throttle API calls?" in PostRank:

We don't throttle apis currently. Lets work through the other issues over email: jim at aiderss.com

Cheers

Jim

Jim Murphy replied on March 20, 2009 21:26 to the problem "Problem with Feed Hash" in PostRank:

Hi Winnie,

Sorry for the trouble, your feed looks good now:

http://www.postrank.com/feed/aa2a8d2f...

The problem happened after the switch from the old feed to the new one. The old feed just returns a 404 - not found error code - instead of a redirect. But, it appears to be working from this end.

Let me know what you see on that end.

Jim

Jim Murphy replied on February 12, 2009 18:24 to the question "Sort "My Feeds" By Popularity?" in PostRank:

You could average together postranks for a feed's posts over time. This is likely an API we will release but we don't have a time frame yet, sorry.

Sorry for misinterpreting your question ont he feed ranking. As Melanie said that's in this area.

Jim Murphy replied on February 12, 2009 13:24 to the question "Sort "My Feeds" By Popularity?" in PostRank:

Hi Daniel,

Sorting by PostRank is captured on our backlog as an enhancement to the Feeds Page.

In the mean time you can use the Top Posts widget for precisely the use case you describe. You can see your top posts int he widget on the left on the Feed Details page for any feed, also you can get your own Top Posts Widget installed on your blog here:

http://www.postrank.com/publishers

Just paste in your url and take it from there.

Hope that helps,

Jim

Jim Murphy replied on February 08, 2009 15:00 to the problem "Post scores not reflecting recent comments" in PostRank:

We're looking into it.

Jim Murphy replied on February 07, 2009 21:53 to the problem "Post scores not reflecting recent comments" in PostRank:

How old are the comments - relative to the post?

We stop checking posts for comments after a week. If you're comments are within that period then we should be able to track down a reason. We're looking to extend this time in the coming months.

Jim Murphy replied on January 28, 2009 02:32 to the idea "Aggregator impact - spot, make use of, count comments, ..." in PostRank:

Comments counts are 1 of many factors that effect PostRank. The others are from sites like you mention. Though there is a North American bias to of our data - Digg, Delicious, Twitter etc.

What Polish sites are the most popular?

If they have APIs we will investigate them and potentially add them.

Jim Murphy replied on January 27, 2009 13:00 to the problem "Why won`t the widget show no posts? While I have imported the feed correctly?" in PostRank:

Thanks for your patience, Steven. This is a bug the dev team is working on this week. Turns out agressive caching and asynch distributed processing is a little complex. :-)

We will update you when this is fixed, but as Melanie mentioned you'll be off to the races by the time we deploy.

Jim Murphy replied on January 22, 2009 02:51 to the question "Word filters: Boolean operators, stemming, and exact phrases" in PostRank:

You beat me too the confirmation. They indeed should work.

We're working on exposing wildcarding with * and ? but do to the perf implications on our servers we haven't made that available yet.

Love to hear what you're building!

Jim Murphy replied on January 21, 2009 23:08 to the question "Word filters: Boolean operators, stemming, and exact phrases" in PostRank:

Hi Travis,

Thanks for the question. In short: several of those features are supported but it takes a bit to get passed some gotchas:

1. you can string keywords together with ands and ors and nots but they need to be uppercased AND and OR and NOT. You can use ! or - for NOT. You can use || for OR

2. The default operator joining keywords is AND.

3. You can group your boolean operators with parens: (x OR Y) AND B etc.

4. Words currently are not stemmed. We may look at adding query stemming in the future.

Here are some samples using the Wordpress Publisher Blog:

http://www.postrank.com/feed/e24f6d39...

1. cnn
Returns 4 results containing cnn

2. (cnn AND academy) OR linkedin
Returns 2 results for me today, one from each term

3. cnn NOT academy
Returns 3 results - excludes the one that includes academy

Hope that helps,

Jim

Jim Murphy replied on January 08, 2009 01:41 to the problem "New imported aggregator does not appear to have any posts" in PostRank:

I've confirmed that the stories seem to be there now. The discovery and metrics gathering processes happen in parallel and do take some time.

Jim Murphy replied on November 26, 2008 15:58 to the problem "OPML imported postrank feeds to google reader show all posts instead of simply great" in PostRank:

Mystery solved - and as you might expect its a pretty silly head-slapper of a bug - you should be seeing better OPML export behavior now.

It turns out that OPML export wrote the filtered feed urls with the wrong url parameter for the filter level. Instead of "postrank=best" the correct url is "level=best". This is why filtering failed for OPML export but the feed itself was in good shape and other features worked as expected.

Newly exported OPMLs will now contain the correct urls and the feeds are filtered and correct.

Can you confirm on your side?

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