The Social Media API Podcast by Ayrshare

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.

Recapping the Ayrshare April 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Auto-Schedule. Enhanced to allow selection of the days of the week for auto-schedule publishing or select specific dates to exclude.
Facebook Analytics. Facebook Post analytics now includes impressions.
Instagram Comments. Instagram Get comments response now include additional reply information, such as the username, like count, and hidden status.
Facebook Page Location. You can now tag a post with a Facebook Page Location.
Facebook Audience Targeting. When creating a Page post on Facebook, you have the option to limit its visibility to a specific audience using different demographic factors such as age, county, education, and others.
Linkedin Comments. LinkedIn comments from a company now have additional fields including organization type, company website, and the company description.
Instagram History. The history for Instagram now returns all the images and videos in a carousel.
YouTube Analytics. Get a daily breakdown of YouTube analytics at the channel level.
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 March 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Instagram Collaborators. Instagram collaboration allows you to co-author content with other accounts. The public original author can tag another private or public account as a collaborator.  Add Instagram collaborators to media posts.
Google Business Profile. Additional data on Google Business Profile is now available including links to the reviews and map, place Id, and other data. Getting this additional data requires relinking of the Google Business Profile.
Facebook Page, Instagram, Google Profile Location. On the page linking screen, you can now display the page location for a Facebook Page, Instagram account, and Google Business profile.
Facebook Profile Analytics. Facebook Social Profile Analytics now returns up to 4 quarters of data. You can set the data to be returned either aggregated or daily.
Facebook History. Facebook Stories now returned in the Get All History endpoint.
Social Linking Page. The Ayrshare Social Linking page now supports redirecting to the origin opening tab or window.
Facebook Reviews. You can now reply to a review on Facebook.
Instagram Followers. Instagram Get Followers Online has an enhanced UTC Format. This data returns the total historical count of your Instagram followers online per hour, which allows you to optimize posting for maximum engagement.
Instagram Carousel. Now publish both videos and images in an Instagram carousel. Up to a combined 10 media items can be included.
TikTok. TikTok captions now support line breaks with the “\n” character.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare February 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Reviews. Get, reply, and delete reviews on Google Business Profile and Facebook Pages using the new /reviews endpoint.
Linkedin Comments. Get LinkedIn comments by comment ID for comments done outside of Ayrshare. 
Linkedin Mentions. Linkedin mentions in comments and reply to comments now resolve to the referenced organization handle.
Public Profile Data. Now you can search for Facebook Pages and Linkedin names in the brand endpoint. Look up users' or companies' social media public information, such as followers, profiles image, and websites. These users and companies do not need to be a linked Ayrshare user.
Facebook Comments. The comments endpoint API for Facebook Comments now returns replies directly in the response body.
Instagram Banned Hashtags. Check for banned hashtags by using the new API endpoint or the new web tool. This is helpful to keep your accounts safe from suspensions or shadow banning.
Facebook Groups. Facebook has announced that they will be removing API access to Facebook Groups. Learn more.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare January 2024 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Longer Instagram Videos. Instagram Video posts now support up to 15 minute lengths and 1 GB. This is an increase from the prior 60 seconds and 100 MB.
Translate Post Text. Choose over 100 different languages to translate your post text. For example, translate English to French or Spanish to German. The source language is automatically detected.
Error Translation. Error messages can be automatically translated to the language of your choice. This is useful if you want to display the error directly to your user in their preferred language.
Pinterest Analytics. Additional Pinterest data points are available for get all history including post title, notes, and board id.
Check Post Length. The Check Post Length endpoint now includes validations for Facebook, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube.
New User Batch Endpoints. When you need a large data set, the batch endpoints are a great option. You can use the batch endpoints to get json files for all your user profiles and then use the webhook to let you know when the file is ready.
Linkedin Historical Posts. Get historical data for a Linkedin post published outside of Ayrshare.
Linkedin Posts Reactions. The Get All Post endpoint for LinkedIn now returns reactions for the post, such as Likes, Praise, Maybe, and Appreciation.
Last API Call Time. Access the time that you last used the API key in the web dashboard in the API Key section.
Ayrshare Dashboard History. The web dashboard now allows you to load all your historical posts or webhook logs with a new “Load more” button.
Webhook Errors. View the error rate of your webhooks to see the percentage of success vs error responses.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

Recapping the Ayrshare December 2023 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Instagram Followers By Time. Get detailed hourly breakdowns for when your Instagram followers are online. This allows you to optimize posting for maximum engagement, by determining the most popular times.
Public Analytics Data. The Brand endpoint is now available with the Business Plan. Retrieve analytics data on all public social accounts. For example, get social stats on @theRock or @taylorswift. This also allows the lookup of Facebook Page IDs for tagging locations in Facebook and Instagram posts.
Reply to Comments. Reply to comments (i.e. comment on comments) for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube.
Facebook History. Facebook Groups history is now available for posts made outside of Ayrshare.
Media Metadata. Get the metadata of a media file URL. For example, for a video you can get the codec, duration, file size, resolution, and more.
X/Twitter Analytics. X/Twitter post analytics and get all history now returns links to the video or animated GIF files.

Recapping the Ayrshare November 2023 Release

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Facebook Stories. Publish photos or videos as Facebook Stories. Stories are a more immersive posting format that disappear after 24 hours.
YouTube Comments. Get YouTube comments by the YouTube social ID.
Instagram Analytics. Instagram Reels Analytics have been enhanced to include the average amount of time spent playing the reel and the total amount of time the reel was played.
Linkedin History. The history endpoint for LinkedIn now returns all the media images of a post.
Reddit Flair. Retrieve the flair of a Subreddit to add the flair to a Reddit post. Some subreddits require specific flair categories to post.
Social Linking. Customize the modals on the social linking page for Facebook Groups, Instagram, and Telegram. Add your own HTML including images.
Pinterest Image Carousel. Now you can post up to five photos in a carousel with links, titles, and descriptions. Users on Pinterest can swipe through the carousel directly from the feed.
Facebook Analytics. New Facebook analytics data points on social accounts available. New data includes video data and more detailed impressions.
Integration Package. You can now download or reset your integration package via the dashboard. The integration package includes important set up and domain information, example endpoint calls, and more.
Comment Deletion. Delete Instagram and YouTube comments. Other social networks where you can delete comments are Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, and X/Twitter.
YouTube Categories. Look up and assign YouTube video categories. The categories are an important input for discovery of your videos in the YouTube algorithm.
Reddit Comments. Now you can add, get, and delete comments on Reddit.
Staging Server. Create a staging server environment in the dashboard. Go to the User Profiles page and click on Settings to add this to your account. This is a Max Pack feature.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.

What’s New At Ayrshare, November 3, 2023

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
New Dashboard. We released the new Ayrshare dashboard, which you can access at app.ayrshare.com. It’s now easier than ever to navigate with the new design, based on Chakra UI, with many enhancements over the previous developer dashboard.
Improved self service account management, such a subscribing to Max Pack.
Enhanced User Profile settings, such as upload your logo and set custom CSS (Max Pack required).
All new webhook logs with advanced search.
More detailed API call tracking.
Publish Documents to LinkedIn. Use the API to post a document on LinkedIn. Supported file formats include: PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX, and PDF.
Webhooks Per User Profile. Webhooks can now be registered per User Profile. Set up a different webhook for each User Profile.
 
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.
 
 

What’s New At Ayrshare, October 5, 2023

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
Facebook Post Draft. Now you can create a draft post or scheduled post that appears in the Meta Business Suite Draft or the Meta Business Suite Scheduled Posts tab.
Notes on a Post. Add reference notes to a post that can be retrieved via the history endpoint. You can also update those notes later. A useful complement to the post approval workflow.
TikTok Comments. TikTok comments now returns replies on comments in a list with the associated metadata for each reply.
Facebook and Instagram Comments. Now you can get Facebook and Instagram single comments and replies.
Check if Uploaded URL Exists. A new endpoint to check if a uploaded media URL exists. Should be used in conjunction with the large media upload URL.
Linkedin History. Get All History now returns the link to the image or video attached to the LinkedIn post.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.
 
 

What’s New At Ayrshare, September 12, 2023

Ayrshare co-founders Geoff and Boris run through the new features at Ayrshare for the past month.
TikTok Post Text. TikTok post text now supports up to 2,200 characters. This is an increase from the prior limit of 150 characters. Get increased engagement on your videos since the TikTok algorithm uses this text to make recommendations.
X/Twitter Captions. Add subtitles, also known as captions, to X/Twitter video files. Uploading your own captions ensures that your videos are transcribed correctly.
Post to All Social. There is a new “platforms”: [“all”] parameter for the /post endpoint. This allows you to automatically post to all linked social accounts.
Alt Text Generation. Use the /generate endpoint to automatically generate alt text for an image. This alt text description is usually not visible to average users but is accessible to search engines and assistive technologies like screen readers, used by visually impaired individuals.
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/add comment, and analytics. Great for SaaS, CMS, DAM, Agencies, and Apps.