While the chart wideget makes for some nice eye candy, I would really love it if there was an API equivilent.
Looking at the javascript source, I can see that ultimately tweetmeme is generating a list of 24 integer values (corresponding to the past 24 hours) which are then used to create an Image URL using the Google Chart API. I don't really car about the image, What i'd like to be able to do is get those 24 numbers back from an API call (or better still: be able to specify a durration (ie: 1 day) and an interval (ie: 1 hour) and get back the resulting numeric values).
This would be very helpful for computing trend based scores for arbitrary URLs -- scraping the generated javascript to get the values is possible, but unappealing.
Posted 2 years ago by hossman