Overview

The Infochimps APIs give you powerful access to many Tb's of data on topics ranging from Twitter to geo data. All of our APIs consistently use REST and have a similar structure. Each data source has its own page with documentation describing it. To browse our APIs, start by going to our Data Marketplace. Our Geo APIs have a few unique features that are worth checking out: Geo API Documentation.

A typical Infochimps API Call

A Trstrank Call Dissected

http://api.infochimps.com/social/network/tw/influence/trstrank?apikey=XXX&screen_name=infochimps

Domain - this is the same for all calls.

  http://api.infochimps.com/ 

Source - the data you are querying against.

  /social/network/tw/influence/trstrank

API Key - You must supply an API key in order to use the Geo API. Learn more about how to obtain Your Infochimps API Key.

  &apikey=[YOUR API KEY HERE]

Paramater - In this case, we're using the screen_name as our required identification parameter on a call to Trstrank.

  &screen_name=infochimps