The Threads API is available now, with a launch promised by the end of June. The free API will allow developers to build “unique integrations” within Threads and potentially even develop third-party applications for Meta’s competitor, formerly known as Twitter.
“People can now post via the API, get their own content, and use our reply management features to set reply and quote controls, retrieve replies to their posts, hide, unhide, or reply to specific replies,” Threads project.
Chen said that in-depth understanding of Threads posts is “one of our most requested features for the API,” so Meta allows developers to view the views, likes, replies, retweets, and citations of Threads posts through the API. number. Meta has published a lot of documentation on how developers can get started using the Threads API, and there’s even an open source Threads API sample application on GitHub.
Meta has been testing the Threads API with a handful of developers: Grabyo, Hootsuite, Social News Desk, Sprinklr, Sprout Social, and Techmeme. These test integrations allow sites like Techmeme to automatically post to Threads, or Sprout and Hootsuite customers to send Threads posts to social media management platforms.
We’re now waiting to see if developers can easily build third-party Threads applications using this new API that’s not connected to the social media management platform. The existing fediverse beta version can help solve this problem, allowing Threads users to access posts through the Mastodon client and share content to the Mastodon server. The current beta version of the Fediverse integration does not allow users to view replies and follows from Fediverse, so it is far from complete as a replacement for third-party Threads applications.
