Interactions

Interactions are objects that represent users taking certain actions on App.net. Interactions are structured to form a sentence like: User X took action Y on object Z. If multiple users take the same action (e.g. multiple users reply to one post) within a set time window those events will be combined into a single Interaction.

The objects list of an Interaction will vary based on the action

(Example) @dalton and @berg reposted post 1:

"repost_interaction"

(Example) @berg started following @dalton:

{
  "action": "follow",
  "event_date": "2012-07-16T17:23:34Z",
  "objects": [
    "...@dalton's user object"
  ],
  "users": [
    "...@berg's user object"
  ]
}

Interactions Fields

Field Type Description
action string What users did. Currently one of follow, reply, repost, star, welcome, broadcast_create, broadcast_subscribe, or broadcast_unsubscribe.
event_date string The time of the most recent interaction occurred at in ISO 8601 format.
objects list users took action on. These objects will be Users if action=follow. For star, repost, reply these objects will be Posts. For broadcast_create, broadcast_subscribe, broadcast_subscribe these will be channels. For welcome this will be empty.
users list A list of User objects that took action on objects.

List User interactions with me

List all the Interactions other users have had with me.

Responses from this endpoint are paginated.

You can only request this list for the current user.

Although this endpoint supports paging, a user’s Interactions stream is continuously rebuilt as new actions in the system occur, so developers should generally plan to refetch the stream whenever switching to display it as Interactions may have shifted their position, with users being added or removed. If you need to keep track of activity in a more precise manner, you should using the Streaming API to monitor the global feed for relevant activity.

This endpoint accepts the interaction_actions as a query string parameter whose value is a comma separated list of actions you’re interested in. For instance, if you’re only interested in repost and follow interactions you could request stream/0/users/me/interactions?interaction_actions=repost,follow.

Endpoint

Method URL Token
GET https://alpha-api.app.net/stream/0/users/me/interactions User

Example

to see more complete examples.

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR ACCESS TOKEN>" -H "X-ADN-Pretty-JSON: 1" \
    "https://alpha-api.app.net/stream/0/users/me/interactions"
{
  "data": [
    {
      "action": "repost",
      "event_date": "2012-07-16T17:23:34Z",
      "objects": [
        "...post 1..."
      ],
      "users": [
        "...@berg's user object",
        "...@dalton's user object"
      ],
      "pagination_id": "10"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "code": 200,
    "more": false,
    "min_id": "10",
    "max_id": "10"
  }
}