Mention Authors API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Mention Authors API
  description: 'The Mention API is a JSON-based, RESTful API that gives programmatic access to the media monitoring and social listening platform: alerts (the keyword queries Mention crawls for), mentions (the results it finds), curation, tags, tasks, alert sharing, authors and influencers, and aggregate statistics. Everything the Mention web client can do is available through this API.


    Authentication uses bearer tokens, obtained either from an app''s settings page (for your own account) or through the OAuth2 authorization-code flow (for a third party''s account). Requests send JSON with a Content-Type: application/json header; the OAuth2 endpoints alone take application/x-www-form-urlencoded. Dates use the W3C date-time format level 6 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD) so that fractional seconds can drive date-based pagination. Collections are cursor-paginated through a _links object. The API version is selected per request with the Accept-Version header; without it, the version configured in the app''s settings applies.


    This description was reconstructed from Mention''s own published API reference at https://dev.mention.com/current/ — Mention does not publish a machine-readable OpenAPI definition.'
  version: '1.21'
  contact:
    name: Mention Support
    url: https://en.support.mention.com/
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://mention.com/en/terms-and-conditions/
servers:
- url: https://api.mention.net/api
  description: Mention API — the base URL named in Mention's own reference documentation.
- url: https://api.mention.com/api
  description: Alternate host observed answering the same API (returns the same OAuth2 challenge).
security:
- bearerAuth: []
- accessTokenQuery: []
- oauth2: []
tags:
- name: Authors
  description: Authors and influencers behind an alert's mentions.
paths:
  /accounts/{account_id}/alerts/{alert_id}/authors:
    get:
      operationId: listAuthors
      summary: Fetch authors and influencers of an alert
      description: Returns the authors behind an alert's mentions, with their influence score, reach and social profiles. The query string must be URL encoded.
      tags:
      - Authors
      externalDocs:
        description: Mention API reference
        url: https://dev.mention.com/current/src/account/alert/author/GetAuthors.html
      parameters:
      - name: account_id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: ID of the account.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: 12345_69gjjsg4itgkcco040okwsck700o4w8gsco0k4kco0s4scw8o0
      - name: alert_id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: ID of the alert.
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 112233
      - name: kind
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Restrict to authors of a given source kind, e.g. twitter.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: twitter
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Only consider mentions retrieved after this date.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: '2016-01-14T00:00:00.0'
      - name: to
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Only consider mentions retrieved before this date.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: '2016-01-20T23:59:59.0'
      - name: sort
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Field to sort authors by, e.g. score.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: score
      - name: order
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Sort direction.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - asc
          - desc
        example: desc
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Number of authors to return.
        schema:
          type: integer
        example: 3
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AcceptVersion'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/AcceptLanguage'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of authors.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AuthorList'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ValidationError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '402':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PaymentRequired'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  responses:
    Unauthorized:
      description: Access was denied — missing or invalid access token.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
    Forbidden:
      description: Access was denied — the token is valid but not permitted on this resource.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
    NotFound:
      description: The resource does not exist.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
    ValidationError:
      description: Invalid input — query string, body or parameters.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
    PaymentRequired:
      description: Payment required — the account's plan does not cover this request.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limited. The response carries an X-Rate-Limit-Reset header holding the unix timestamp at which the limit resets.
      headers:
        X-Rate-Limit-Reset:
          description: Unix timestamp at which the rate limit resets.
          schema:
            type: integer
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/OAuthError'
  schemas:
    AuthorList:
      type: object
      properties:
        authors:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Author'
    Author:
      type: object
      title: Author
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
        avatar:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        gender:
          type: string
          description: Deprecated as a chart dimension from API version 1.19; soft-deprecated before that.
        influencer_score:
          type: number
        email_fetched:
          type: boolean
        enriched:
          type: boolean
        main_author:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
          description: 'The primary social profile behind the author: kind, url, name, realname, score, picture and followers_count.'
  parameters:
    AcceptLanguage:
      name: Accept-Language
      in: header
      required: false
      description: Language used for translated resource fields.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: fr
    AcceptVersion:
      name: Accept-Version
      in: header
      required: false
      description: API version to use for this request, e.g. 1.21. When omitted, the version configured in the app's settings applies.
      schema:
        type: string
      example: '1.21'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: 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 of your app's settings page.
    accessTokenQuery:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: access_token
      description: The same access token passed in the query string. Supported but discouraged, as it puts the credential in the URL.
    oauth2:
      type: oauth2
      description: '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 authorizing account.'
      flows:
        authorizationCode:
          authorizationUrl: https://web.mention.com/authorize
          tokenUrl: https://web.mention.net/oauth/v2/token
          scopes: {}
externalDocs:
  description: Mention API reference
  url: https://dev.mention.com/current/
x-generated-from: https://dev.mention.com/current/
x-generated-by: api-evangelist-enrichment-2026-08-13