Ayrshare
Post to all your social media networks via an API
We are an API-first product that enables companies to programmatically automate their social media posts. Companies can skip the social network approval processes and build time to be posting within minutes.
A fun new product we just introduced is an API to build Link In Bio Pages, or microsites, for your users.
What is a link in bio page? Social media platforms, such as Instagram, allow users to share photos and videos, engage with others through likes and comments, and build their community. But one thing Instagram doesn't allow is for users to include a clickable link in their posts. This means that if a user wants to direct their followers to a website or specific landing page, they have to do so in their Instagram bio.
Enter the "link in bio" page, also known as a microsite. This is a dedicated webpage that users create to act as a central hub for multiple links they want to share with their followers. This can include clickable links to their personal website, blog, store, or even a landing page for a specific campaign or product.
Check out our new API for Link In Bio Pages:
We decided to launch as small podcast on social media APIs. We'll review the changes to our social API and industry news. We plan for these to be short, but informative. We also plan on having fun. Please check it out and subscribe!
We're excited to work with Oracle on integrating Ayrshare's Social Media API with the Oracle Content Management platform. You can now published direct to social networks like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter directly from OCM. Here are some more info about the social API integration:
I can't tell you the number of requests for posting to Instagram Reels via our social media API. Unfortunately, Reels have not been available using Instagram's official integrate, but now...we have lift off!
Instagram has become more competitive with TikTok's API, so they decided to make Reels, the TikTok comp, available.
Ayrshare now offers Instagram Reels API posting. Here is an article on how to implement the IG API yourself or use Ayrshare.
https://www.ayrshare.com/instagram-reels-api-how-to-post-videos-to-reels-using-a-social-media-api/
We are starting a series of 1-minute videos about each social media API capability. In the first one we'll look at using the API to get Analytics from social networks such as Facebook and Instagram.
If you have any suggestion, please let us know. Enjoy!
So the big exciting headline is: Ayrshare Announces 100 million API Calls as Demand for Social Media Integrations Surges
It was a thrill to be able to write this, and we're so proud and thankful to everyone - our users, the team, advisors, and friends - that got us here.
But we're not done yet...We have have some amazing new features for our social media api such as TikTok posting and analytics, Twitter Threads (Tweet Storms), and more.
You can check out the press release or the What's New section.
For a while now we've been asked about Facebook Groups API and Pinterest API access via Ayrshare...well, the excuses are done, because as of today the are now available.
With the Pinterest API integration, you can create new pins on your Pinterest boards and retrieve engagement analytics. Some users live on Pinterest, so this is a powerful engagement platform to share your content. If you want to see example of how to use the Pinterest API, click the above link.
With the Facebook Groups API integration, you can post images or videos to a FB group you own and also retrieve post analytics. Groups are wonderful to start conversations with your users.
There is more to come!
Side note, doesn't the Pinterest icon look like the Peloton logo?
https://www.ayrshare.com/pinterest-api-integration-on-ayrshare/
Get More Detailed Analytics Data
New data sets are now available at the social network level, such as a Facebook Page or Instagram Account. Get the number of followers, username, and more.
Learn more in the docs.
RSS Posting Is Better Than Ever
Automated RSS Feed posting, including Substack, now supports posting to Instagram. The RSS Feed endpoint also now allows you to automatically add hashtags and post the image from your article.
Learn more in the docs.
The Node.js NPM Package Has Been Updated
Check out version 1.0.18 here.
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Upcoming API Changes
On October 1, 2021, the History endpoint will change with several return field names changing and UTC time additions in the response.
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We've previously made several videos, but they have always been developer focused, meaning we open up Visual Studio Code and show how to implement our Social Media API.
For a while we've want to create a general marketing overview of what Ayrshare's APIs do. We investigated a 3rd party to create animations, narrate, and score the video, but we weren't happy with anyone we found in our price range.
So, my co-founder create one. Luckily, he has been dabbling in video editing and the results looks, well, see for yourself below.
What we used to create the video:
- Camtasia for Animations: a great tool to edit videos, animate, and more.
- Google Text to Speech (TTS): If you haven't tried out TTS, it is absolutely amazing. You can choose dozen of different accents to speak your text, and the inflects and output is close to perfect for show text.
- Envato Elements for Graphics and Music: A good repository of vector graphics, music, website templates, etc.
The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK4V26hWUuE
We've been doing two things the past few months: supporting users and building features they ask for - we've stopped building what we "think" our users want and now just build what they actually want.
During that time, we've done a poor job of announcing the cool new features and capabilities to all our sign up users. We've honestly been focusing on our paid users, taking special care to personally notify them of changes they requested.
We finally created a nice announcement email with a link to our What New for 2021 🚀 page in our docs and set it out to all our sign up users (paid and not paid). We try to keep emails to a minimum since we don't like it when companies send us too many emails.
Wow! I didn't expect the level of positive feedback.
We got comments like:
I've been waiting for [this] feature, how do I sign up?
You guys have been busy. When will [this feature] be available?
While it seems obvious in hindsight, there were many non-paid users who were on the fence and seeing all the great new things or features they were waiting for was the turning point. We got several new conversion both on our standard and business level plans.
So the lesson learned is don't forget about spreading the word about all the amazing things being created.
You can find out more about Ayrshare and our social media APIs at our site.