Get familiar with Listening sources

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In this article, we have covered all the sources supported by Social Listening.

Social channels

Source

Overview

Twitter

  • Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All tweets and engagement stats are available in real-time)

  • Coverage: Both Public & Privately owned accounts data are available

  • Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins

  • Historical Data: Quarter 3 2014

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Retweet Count, Reply Count, Favorite Count, and Quoted Message Count are updated in real time

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Twitter as a Listening Source.

Facebook

  • Source of Data: Public API

  • Coverage

    • Earned: Public Pages only

    • Owned: Facebook page, profile, groups

  • Latency: 5-30 Mins

  • Historical Data: From the date of addition/ indexing of the Facebook page to the Sprinklr coverage

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: 2-3 hours

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Partial (Earned mentions), Full (Owned mentions)

For more information, refer to Facebook as a Listening Source.

Instagram

  • Source of Data: Meta/ Public API

  • Coverage: Earned: Hashtag based listening only, Owned support available

  • Latency: 5-60 mins

  • Historical Data: Topic backfills Not available (since partner level tokens are leveraged to fetch IG posts)

  • Backfill Support: No

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Engagements stats will keep updating every 30-60 mins for first 7 days from the day of ingestion

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Partial (Earned), Full (Owned)

For more information, refer to Instagram as a Listening Source.

YouTube

  • Source of Data: Public YouTube APIs

  • Coverage: Publicly available data on native

  • Latency: Keyword authentication Route : Within 2 hours

  • Source verified channels: 24-48 hours

  • Historical Data: Keyword authentication Route : Past 7 days

  • Source verified channels: Going forward data will be grabbed

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned & Owned)

For more information, refer to YouTube as a Listening Source.

Quora

  • Source of Data: Full Firehose. All public question, answer and comments are available

  • Coverage: Both Public & Private owned accounts data are available

  • Latency: Near Real Time

  • Historical Data: After 2009

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Refreshed every 2 hours only for 7 days.

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Quora as a Listening Source.

VK (Vkontakte)

  • Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All VKontakte posts and engagement stats are available in real-time)

  • Coverage: Full firehose, Both public & private owned accounts data are available for all content types.

  • Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins

  • Historical Data: Q2 2020, Full history on owned accounts

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Likes & comments count is updated. Refreshed every 1 hour

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Vkontakte as a Listening source.

Sina Weibo

  • Source of Data: Official Sina Weibo APIs

  • Coverage: Sina Weibo is a premium listening source, and a limited number of mentions are procured from Sina Weibo as a part of Sprinklr-Weibo annual contract. The broadsearch listening functionality for Sina Weibo is available upon request using a support ticket request

  • Latency: Within 15-20 minutes

  • Historical Data: Not available

  • Backfill Support: No

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Engagement stats not supported.

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Sina Weibo as a Listening Source.

Web sources

Source

Overview

Reddit

  • Source of Data: Official API - Firehose (All Reddit or Sub reddit posts and engagement stats are available in real-time)

  • Coverage: Direct firehose of both public & private owned accounts data.

  • Latency: Near real-time: 1-3 mins

  • Historical Data: Quarter 2 2017, Full historic access to owned account data dating back to account creation date.

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate

    • Due to Firehose - API the post is updated in real time, 5-8 minutes max, once it is fetched.

    • Reddit scores are updated hourly once, for 7 days and Comment count for every 1 hour.

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Reddit as a Listening source.

News

  • Source of Data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Public mainstream news media primarily national and local market newspapers, news portals, wire services, news magazines, and various other news sources.

  • Latency: 12-24 hours

  • Historical Data: Q2 2015

  • Backfill Support: Yes, till the date of addition of News sites in Sprinklr

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not supported

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to News as a Listening source.

Blogs/Websites

  • Source of Data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Content coverage from millions of professional and personal blogs for broad search analysis. We also offer comments on a portion of the blogs that we cover.

  • Latency: Depends on Blog/Website: Less than 24 hrs from time of publication.

  • Historical Data: Q2 2015

  • Backfill Support: Yes, for new sources: from the date of addition, for existing sources: all the data that has been fetched.

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Blogs/Websites as a Listening source.

Forums

  • Source of Data: Data vendors

  • Coverage: Content coverage from millions of forums & message boards across dozens of industries including – automotive, beauty/healthcare, consumer electronics, gaming, parenting.

  • Latency: Depends on Forum Sites – Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.

  • Historical Data: Q2 2015 (depends on source verification of forums)

  • Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source all the data that has been fetched.

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Forums as a Listening source.

Reviews

  • Source of Data: Data vendors and Firehoses.

  • Coverage: Earned reviews are fetched via Vendors/ Firehose from different review sites. Owned reviews are not supported.

  • Latency: Depends on Review Sites: Less than 24 hrs from time of publishing.

  • Historical Data: From the date of addition of product SKU to the review coverage

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)

For more information, refer to Reviews as a Listening source.

Classified

  • Source of Data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Sprinklr supports coverage of 3100+ Classified sources

  • Latency: Depends on Classified Sites – Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.

  • Historical Data: From the date of addition to the coverage

  • Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source, all the data that has been fetched.

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Classified as a Listening source.

Podcast

  • Source of Data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Sprinklr supports coverage of 1000+ Podcast sources

  • Latency: Depends on Forum Sites : Less than 24 hrs from time of publish.

  • Historical Data: Q2, 2021

  • Backfill Support: Yes, for a new source from the date of addition, for an existing source all the data that has been fetched.

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not supported

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Podcast as a Listening source.

Videos

  • Source of Data: Data Vendors

  • Coverage: Publically available data

  • Latency: Within 12 - 24 hours

  • Historical Data: Q3, 2017

  • Backfill Support: Yes, from the date of addition of domain inside Sprinklr

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Videos as a Listening source.

WordPress

  • Source of Data: Official APIs Firehose

  • Coverage: Full firehose of both public & private owned accounts data available.

  • Latency: 1-3 mins

  • Historical Data: Q4 2020

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not Updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to WordPress as a Listening source.

Stack Exchange

  • Source of Data: Stack Exchange Official API

  • Coverage: All Public Data from site : Stack overflow and serverfault.com

  • Latency: 5-15 minutes

  • Historical Data: No, only going forward data is available.

  • Backfill Support: No

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate

    • Engagement Stats are updated only for first 24 hours

    • Every 15 Minute for last 2 hour mention

    • Every 6 hours for the last 24 hours

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Stack Exchange as a Listening source.

Traditional sources

Source

Overview

TV

  • Source of Data: Datavendor [LexisNexis]

  • Coverage: Sprinklr includes Broadcast (TV and Radio) with over 2100 channels in all 210 US Nielsen markets, Canada, and the UK.

  • Latency: Less than 60 Mins

  • Historical Data: Q3 2017

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Archive Support: Upto 2 Years

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)

For more information, refer to TV as a Listening Source.

Radio

  • Source of Data: Datavendors [LexisNexis]

  • Coverage: Sprinklr includes Radio transcripts and audio clips of 750+ major radio sources across US, UK, and Canada.

  • Latency: Less than 60 Mins

  • Historical Data: Q3 2017

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Archive Support: Up to 2 Years

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes (Earned)

For more information, refer to Radio as a Listening Source.

Print

  • Source of Data: LexisNexis

  • Coverage: We cover 13000+ global print sources across all geographies

  • Latency: Less than 24 hrs

  • Historical Data: Q3 2014

  • Backfill Support: Yes

  • Engagement Stats Refresh Rate: Not updated

  • Author/ Profile Metadata Details: Yes

For more information, refer to Print as a Listening Source.