The Social Media API Podcast by Ayrshare

Recapping the Ayrshare February 2025 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
TikTok Posting. Create a draft video post in the TikTok app. The draft video will be in the notification Inbox in the app, and the user can edit the video before publishing.
TikTok Analytics. Additional TikTok analytics data fields were added, including demographics such as audience cities and gender. Other new profile fields include profile views and email, address, and bio link clicks.
Instagram Collaboration. In addition to images and Reels, users can now add collaborators to carousels.
Instagram Analytics. Instagram post analytics now includes the view count, which is the total number of times your post has been seen.
Instagram Details. Get additional Instagram details for a user profile, such as used quota and whether the account type is Creator or Business.
Compression. Compression now supports Brotli for all endpoints, which is faster and offers better compression.
LinkedIn Comments. LinkedIn comments and replies to comments now support images.
Reddit Mentions. Reddit posts now support mentions of other users or subreddits.
Bluesky Posting. Link previews are now supported in Bluesky posts. Include a link in a post, and a preview will automatically be generated.
Max Pack. Image resizing and conversion now supports converting to WebP.
Max Pack. Image resizing and watermarking now support positioning the watermark, such as the northeast corner.
Dashboard. The Ayrshare web dashboard has been refreshed with a new color scheme, enhanced alerts, and improved workflows for a smoother user experience.
 
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, manage messages, and detailed analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare January 2025 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Bluesky API. Bluesky social media management is now available as the 11th social network that Ayrshare supports.
LinkedIn Targeting. LinkedIn allows you to target your organic posts to specific groups of users. You can target by countries, industry, job title, and more.
YouTube Targeting. Block or allow countries and regions for a YouTube video.
Auto Schedule. Reset an auto-schedule to start scheduling from the current time. This is accomplished by deleting the last scheduled date.
TikTok Analytics. TikTok social network analytics on a user profile is now available as a historical daily time series.
TikTok Posting. If the post is completely or mostly created with AI, you can label the post as “Creator labeled as AI-generated”.
X Posting. X now supports up to 4 videos in a single Tweet.
 
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, manage messages, and detailed analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare December 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Dashboard. The User Profiles page performance in the web dashboard has been optimized. You will now get a smooth scrolling and loading experience regardless of how many user profiles you have in your account.
Dashboard. The Posts page in the web dashboard now allows you to include deleted posts in your history timeline. This lets you access, filter, and search deleted posts in the same way as successful posts.
Deleted Posts. If you or your users have manually deleted a post on a social network, you can mark it as manually deleted in Ayrshare. This will prevent Ayrshare from trying to delete the post in the future and allow you to access a more accurate post history.
Webhooks. You can now get all the registered webhooks for all your user profiles in a single call.
Analytics. Instagram post analytics now includes share, followers gained, profile visits, and profile activity counts.
Comments. TikTok comments now return the name of the person who made the comment.
Comments. X comments now return the ID of the Tweet the comment was replied to.
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, manage messages, and detailed analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare November 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
All New Docs. Check out the new Ayrshare docs. We migrated to a more advanced Documentation platform with many user experience improvements versus the prior version.
Instagram Analytics. Instagram post analytics now includes the metrics how many times your reel replayed after the first time and how total times your reel played after the first impression. 
Hashtags. The hashtags endpoint now allows you to specify a language hint to keep the hashtags in the same language as the post. 
X Analytics. X/Twitter Social analytics now returns the most recent Tweet and the Pinned Tweet, if a pinned Tweet has been set.
Dashboard. In the developer dashboard, Auto-Scheduled Posts are now tagged as “Auto-Schedule”.
Auto-Schedule. Get all the pending Auto-Scheduled Posts via the API. This returns the list of posts that have been scheduled but not yet published.
TikTok. You can check if a linked TikTok account is a business account with the Social Analytics endpoint.
Instagram Comments. The comments endpoint now returns the Instagram top-level post ID to identify the original post.
History. The history endpoint now returns “paused” scheduled posts. In addition the number of past posts returned was increased to 1000.
Linking Page. Add a footer and copyright info on the user profile social linking page. Max Pack required.
Image Conversion. The image resizing endpoint can now convert a PNG or other image type to a JPG as part of the conversion process. Max Pack required.
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, manage messages, and detailed analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare October 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
First Comment. Automatically add a first comment to your published social media posts. Great to add more details and context, boost engagement, and set the tone of the conversation.
Comment Errors. Now comment error also are returned in an errors array to align with how post errors are returned: 
X/Twitter Comments. You can now optionally add media to X/Twitter Comments and Comment Replies.
Pinterest Analytics. Pinterest metrics were enhanced and now include one full year of analytics data and lifetime comments and reactions for both images and videos.
RSS Feeds. When adding an RSS feed to be automatically posted you can now select which social networks the article is published to. This is available  both on the dashboard and via the API. 
Dashboard. In the Ayrshare Dashboard API page there is a new Monthly API Calls overview, which now includes comment API calls as well as post API calls.
PyPi Package. The Python PyPi package has been updated with new endpoints.
 
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, and deep analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare September 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.

Recapping the Ayrshare August 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Linkedin History. Now you can get the post history for LinkedIn personal pages. Previously only LinkedIn company pages returned history. Requires relinking of LinkedIn with Ayrshare. 
Linkedin Analytics. There are new data points available for Linkedin personal and company pages including likedBy and comment details. 
Linkedin Lookup. The brand endpoint now allows you to look up a person or company. This is useful to see details of who liked one of your posts.
Facebook History. You can limit the results for a Facebook Page history to only show posts that were published by the page itself. This will filter out all the content that was not published by the page. 
User Profile. The user endpoint now returns a new field with the timestamp of the last time that this user profile was used in an API call.
X Long Posts. You can publish long posts to Premium X Accounts. Long posts can be up to 25,000 characters long. You can also now get full long Post data including the full body and URL in the long Post body when calling analytics or history.
Web Dashboard. The post page design was improved and several new content types were added. You can now post Facebook and Instagram Reels or Stories or YouTube Shorts directly from the dashboard.
Team Management. When you invite a team member you can now see if they accepted the invite or resend the invite from the Dashboard User Profiles page. 
AI Video Titles. The video transcripts now include a suggested title. This is useful for posting to YouTube which requires a title for every video upload. (Max Pack Required)
Pausing Posts. You can pause and unpause scheduled posts with the post endpoint.
Sentiment Analysis. The generate endpoint now can generate sentiment analysis for a post or comment to understand if it is negative, positive, or neutral. The result also includes recommendations on how to improve.
Instagram Analytics. Instagram analytics has been enhanced to return additional demographic data on the engaged audience.
TikTok Photos. You can now post to TikTok with a photo. Previously a video was required.
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, and deep analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare July 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Post History. Filter the history endpoint based on the social network platform, whether the post was immediate or scheduled, and the status.
Web Dashboard. The list of user profiles can now be sorted by title or create date and the scheduling modal for posts has been improved.
Webhooks. Webhooks now automatically retry two times with the same hookId if the initial webhook does not get a success response.
Reddit. Check if a subreddit exists based on the subreddit name.
Facebook Stories. A Facebook Story returned via the history endpoint now includes the cover image and direct url to the video. 
Cropping Images. There are new “crop” mode options for resizing an image. Now you can specify the dimensions and starting coordinates to crop an image. 
Demo Social Media Posting App. We released the code for a demo React + Node.js web application that allows users to compose, schedule, and post content to multiple social media platforms simultaneously.
Multi-Platform Posts. The post endpoint was enhanced to allow you to customize your post content and media for different social networks in a single API call.  
Instagram Analytics. Instagram profile analytics are now available in a daily historical time-series.
Linkedin Comments. Getting comments from Linkedin now return the comment media link for images or videos. 
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, and deep analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Messaging API & Recapping the Ayrshare June 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Ayrshare Messaging API. The Ayrshare Messaging Add-On is an optional paid add-on that allows your platform to manage the direct messaging for your users including Facebook Messenger, Instagram Messaging, and X/Twitter Messaging.
YouTube Comments. You can now delete comments on YouTube by using the YouTube comment ID.
Auto Hashtags. Introducing the new fully rebuilt auto-hashtag system with more relevant hashtags and no limit on post length. The amount of hashtags has also been increased to allow up to 10 hashtags per post.
Web Dashboard. The dashboard UI has been updated with the ability to remove all the target social networks in the post page with a single click, and a new code example section in the API Key page.
User Profile Management. The Profiles endpoint has been enhanced to allow you to filter the results to profiles that have active social accounts or contain certain platforms.
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, and deep analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare May 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Google Business. You can now update your Google Business Profile location data including phone numbers, website URL, map location, and more.
History Search. With the History endpoint you can now search post IDs across all your user profiles.This is useful if you have a post ID and do not know which user profile posted it.
User Profile Tags. Add your own tags to a user profile so you can better organize and manage profiles. The web dashboard also allows you to see the tags assigned and search for tags in the User Profiles page.
YouTube Captions. Add your own custom captions to a YouTube video with a SRT or SVB file.
NPM Package. An updated Node.js NPM package was released with new endpoints and more detailed documentation. The package was also renamed to social-media-api.
Facebook Comments. You can now add an image as part of your comment on Facebook.
Linkedin Comments. Linkedin Comments now return the like count for that specific comment.
Linkedin Brands. The Brands endpoint for Linkedin data was enhanced with the localized name of the account, company specialities, and company description.
Disable Comments. You can disable comments on a post on Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok. This works on new posts or already published posts.
Historical Posts. Get historical post data from TikTok on posts that were not posted via Ayrshare.
Instagram Analytics. New data points available for Instagram Stories including replies, shares, and exit counts.
AI Generate. Generate social media post text with AI based on one or more images. This can also be used to write an image caption.
Web Dashboard. For each user profile listed in the dashboard, you can see the connected social networks. Each social network icon can be hovered to see the name on the social network.
Social Linking. In the web dashboard and in your social linking page, there are now profile images shown next to the page or company name.
About Ayrshare
Ayrshare allows you to easily integrate Social Media APIs to manage all your users’ social accounts right from your product: post, auto schedule, get and add comments, and deep analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.