Agent configuration examples

Agent Configuration Examples

WebsiteAgents

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"
    }
  }
}

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

{
  :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"}
              }
}

Google plus Agent, it'll follow public posts of any page/person on google plus. 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"}                                                                         
             }                                                                                                       
}