API Updates, Farcaster Actions Spec, and Data Product Schema Improvements - Neynar

API Updates, Farcaster Actions Spec, and Data Product Schema Improvements

Oct 17, 2024

by dylan

API

• Recent Updates
  • Channel APIs
    • /feed/channel APIs now show channel member content only by default
  • Algorithmic Ranking
    • MBD as a new feed provider, in addition to Openrank
    • Algo ranking on conversation replies
  • Blocks
    • Fetch blocks, blocked by
    • Blocked users are filtered out by default if you pass in viewer_fid to APIs like /feed and /conversation
  • App level bans
    • Ban certain users from showing up on your app without impacting the rest of the protocol — client level access for app developers
• Up Next
  • Location APIs — location data as part of user object
    • Available next week
    • Fetch users from a specific location — can build but not sure if people need it yet, reach out if interested
  • Twitter usernames — Twitter usernames will be part of hydrated user objects
  • Better embed data in cast objects — we already return metadata for embeds in most cases. Coming next:
    • Quote casts, twitter links

Farcaster Actions

• Read the spec here
• Extends the same sort of auth signature for channel actions to other actions that clients might want to have
• eg. multiple clients using the same bookmarking service, other APIs etc
• Doesn't require Neynar the way the spec is designed (apps can just go through each other), or can use a Neynar POST endpoint so other apps using our signers can build this out

Data Products

• Upcoming — indexing custom schemas
  • Will start simple, timeline still TBD; actively investigating second half of October