# DataSift (MediaSift Inc.)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/datasift-mediasift-inc/  
**Website:** http://datasift.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 6.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Social-Media, Social Data, Data, Analytics, Streaming, Discontinued

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/datasift-mediasift-inc/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.