Mention Alerts API
The Alerts API from Mention — 8 operations for the standing keyword queries Mention crawls the web and social media for — list, create, read, update, pause and unpause an alert, plus the per-account notification preferences on it. Since version 1.21 group_id is mandatory on create and the stats field must be requested explicitly. There is no delete operation: an alert dies with its last share.
Mention Alerts API is one of 9 APIs that Mention publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Alerts. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a getting-started guide.
This API exposes 8 operations across 5 paths, and defines 13 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.2.0, at version 1.21.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api.mention.net/api, https://api.mention.com/api.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 3
Mention Alerts API declares
3 security schemes
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (bearerAuth).
An API key is passed in the query as access_token (accessTokenQuery).
It supports OAuth 2.0 (oauth2) using the authorizationCode flow.
By default, every request must be authenticated.
bearerAuth— Access token passed in the Authorization header, prefixed with 'Bearer '. This is the preferred method. A token for your own account is available at the bottom…accessTokenQuery— The same access token passed in the query string. Supported but discouraged, as it puts the credential in the URL.oauth2— Authorization-code flow used to obtain an access token for a third party's Mention account. No scopes are defined: a granted token carries full access to the a…
Paths & Operations 8
Across 5 paths, the API surfaces 8 operations — 3 GET, 3 POST, 2 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
The keyword queries Mention crawls the web and social media for.
Schemas 13
The contract defines 13 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Alert (20 properties), Account (13 properties), AlertCreate (8 properties), Share (7 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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