DataSift (MediaSift Inc.)

DataSift (MediaSift Inc.) was a pioneering social data platform that provided real-time and historical access to social media firehoses (Twitter, Facebook Topic Data, and more) through its CSDL filtering language and its Push, Historics, and Managed Sources REST APIs. Founded in 2007 and backed by Insight Partners and others, the company was acquired by Meltwater in 2019; the datasift.com domain now redirects to meltwater.com and the standalone DataSift developer platform and APIs have been discontinued. Official first-party client SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Node.js remain published on public package registries under the datasift GitHub organization as historical artifacts.

DataSift (MediaSift Inc.) is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Social Media, Social Data, and Data.

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8.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 8.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: DataSift (MediaSift Inc.)
description: DataSift (MediaSift Inc.) was a pioneering social data platform that provided real-time and historical access
  to social media firehoses (Twitter, Facebook Topic Data, and more) through its CSDL filtering language and its Push, Historics,
  and Managed Sources REST APIs. Founded in 2007 and backed by Insight Partners and others, the company was acquired by Meltwater
  in 2019; the datasift.com domain now redirects to meltwater.com and the standalone DataSift developer platform and APIs
  have been discontinued. Official first-party client SDKs for Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Node.js remain published on public
  package registries under the datasift GitHub organization as historical artifacts.
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence