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lfl1001's avatar
lfl1001
Contributor
9 years ago

How many Lithium data export options i can choose

Hi, I'm newbie of lithium. I'm currently evaluating the platform and we have requireme of pull the forum data to 3rd party tools for custom analytics. I want to know which method Lithium can provide to customer about getting data from their nodes. I know the Community/Bulkdata API can be the options. Is there any other way to do that as well?

 

Thanks Fenglin

    • AdamN's avatar
      AdamN
      Khoros Oracle
      9 years ago

      Hi lfl1001,

       

      There are three different APIs you can use to pull data from the community:

      1. Community API v1 - Our original API which has a huge number of calls for almost every aspect of the community.
      2. Community API v2 - Our newer API which features the ability to search using LIQL (Lithium Query Language).
      3. Bulk API - Allows you to obtain a log of the various events and actions that have occurred in the community.

       

      You might also be interested in reviewing details about implementing a federated search strategy. Although it's not the exact same use case, there will be a lot of similarities in how you obtain the data, and crawling is another option for doing so:

      http://community.lithium.com/t5/Developers-Knowledge-Base/Implementing-a-federated-search-strategy/ta-p/7269 

       

      I hope this helps!

      • lfl1001's avatar
        lfl1001
        Contributor
        9 years ago
        Thank you Adam. The link you provide about the federated search strategy is invalid. I tired to search the keyword but can't find any related topic in lithium.com. Could you please send it again?