Mention Shares API
The Shares API from Mention — 5 operations over the join between an account and an alert. Share is the authorization primitive AND the lifecycle owner of an alert: deleting the last share deletes the alert and everything it collected.
Mention Shares API is one of 9 APIs that Mention publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Shares. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and a getting-started guide.
This API exposes 5 operations across 2 paths, and defines 8 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 Shares 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 5
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 5 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Which accounts an alert is shared with.
Schemas 8
The contract defines 8 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Account (13 properties), Share (7 properties), ShareList (2 properties), Links (2 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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