Agent configuration examples

Agent Configuration Examples

WebsiteAgents

Hacker News searcher

Look for new Hacker News posts that mention SF or "Bay Area"

{
  "expected_update_period_in_days": 2,
  "url": "http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/items/_search?q=francisco+OR+sf+OR+%22bay+area%22&sortby=create_ts%20desc",
  "type": "json",
  "mode": "on_change",
  "extract": {
    "item": {
      "path": "results[*].item",
      "attr": "src"
    }
  }
}

Reddit Gold

Generate events whenever a comment receives gold on a specified subreddit. Here r/all is demonstrated.

{
  "expected_update_period_in_days": 2,
  "url": "http://www.reddit.com/r/all/comments/gilded.json",
  "type": "json",
  "mode": "on_change",
  "extract": {
    "body": { "path": "$.data.children[*].data.body" },
    "title": { "path": "$.data.children[*].data.link_title" }
  }
}

Follow public posts on Google+

This can follow public posts of any page/person on Google+. An API key will be needed. In this example we are following +google.

{
  "expected_update_period_in_days": 2,
  "url": "https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/+google/activities/public?key=<api-key>",
  "type": "json",
  "mode": "on_change",
  "extract": {
    "status": { "path": "$.items[*].object.content" },
    "title": { "path": "$.items[*].title" }
  }
}

Follow stock prices

This can follow stock prices. Here we are showing Google and Apple. Replace with any other companies to get their stock updates.

{
  "expected_update_period_in_days": "2",
  "url" : "http://finance.yahoo.com/webservice/v1/symbols/GOOG,AAPL/quote?format=json",
  "type": "json",
  "mode": "all",
  "extract":  {
                 "name"  : {"path": "$.list.resources[*].resource.fields.name"},
                 "symbol": {"path": "$.list.resources[*].resource.fields.symbol"},
                 "price" : {"path": "$.list.resources[*].resource.fields.price"}
               }
}

iTunes Trailers

This Agent follows iTunes trailers from the apple.com/trailers RSS feed.

{
  "url": "http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/home/rss/newtrailers.rss",
  "mode": "on_change",
  "type": "xml",
  "expected_update_period_in_days": "10",
  "extract": {
    "title": {
      "css": "item title",
      "text": true
    },
    "url": {
      "css": "item link",
      "text": true
    }
  }
}