Hootsuite Real Time Metrics Rest API
When calling the Real-time Metrics API, the client needs to be authenticated.The [REST API authentication](#tag/rest-api-authentication) section contains more details on how to authenticate your client.
Hootsuite Real Time Metrics Rest API is one of 21 APIs that Hootsuite publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, authentication docs, and rate-limit docs.
This API exposes 9 operations across 9 paths, and defines 18 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version v1.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://platform.hootsuite.com.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 4
Hootsuite Real Time Metrics Rest API declares
4 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearer-token).
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basic-auth).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (Oauth2ClientCredentials) using the clientCredentials flow, exposing 1 scope.
An API key is passed in the header as X-Hootsuite-Signature (SharedSecret).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 9
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 9 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
When calling the Real-time Metrics API, the client needs to be authenticated. The [REST API authentication](tag/rest-api-authentication) section contains more details on how to au…
Schemas 18
The contract defines 18 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are ResponseTimeRequest (8 properties), HandleTimeRequest (6 properties), TotalMessagesRequest (6 properties), TotalResolvedConversationsRequest (6 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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