As a part of our efforts to offer developers public real-time data
to enhance their applications, we’ve added song and video plays to our
Real-Time Stream. These are based on the Activity
Stream spec. The song plays include metadata about the artist and song,
including song name and link, duration, artist and artist URL, album and album
thumbnail. The video data includes title/description, a thumbnail, link,
duration, and author. Developers could use this new data in the stream to
build a real-time trend analysis on all popular songs or videos being played at
any given moment. Also, it can also give a pulse of what artists are hot at
that second.
Since we launched
our Real-Time Stream API, we’ve seen many companies, like Collecta, using it
to enhance their site. Our RTS pushes out rich data the moment it has been
published, with public and private channels that respect users’ privacy. To
view our full privacy policy, visit it here.
Check out the Real-Time
Stream Overview to get started pushing the stream to your site.