Social Media RESTful APIs

Social Media Application Development has drastically expanded recently due to RESTful APIs. As a result, the developer communities at Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Foursquare, Yelp, and Twitter are growing and becoming more collaborative. Tweets can literally impact elections, your LinkedIn profile can be vital for your career progression. Stackoverflow and GitHub demonstrate your expertise as a developer. In this class, students will explore topics including Social Graphs, Social Media Advertising, Analytics, Reputation Management and Social Listening. We will review the major social media APIs.

Each week we write a practical application including chatbots based on Facebook messenger, Reputation Management via Yelp and Google APIs combined with sentiment analysis via IBM Watson. We explore the APIs of LinkedIn, Foursquare and combine them with Uber and Airbnb and Snapchat. We don't require a specific programming language! All our samples are available in HTML and Java Script. However, the APIs are standard REST APIs and you can choose your favorite language and development environment and present your applications to your classmates. For the more advanced developer, we also cover the mobile APIs and more advanced integrations with Machine Learning for Reputation Management or Augmented Reality via Snapchat. We also plan to offer follow-up classes and meetups.