AlchemyAPI FAQ
- What is AlchemyAPI?
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AlchemyAPI is a web service that analyzes your unstructured content (news articles, blog posts, e-mail, etc.), exposing the semantic richness in your data. Our uniquely powerful natural language processing technology analyzes your text or web-based content, identifying named entities (people, locations, companies, etc.), facts and relations, topic keywords, text sentiment, taxonomy classifications, scraping structured data, and more! For more information on AlchemyAPI and it's capabilities, take a look at our documentation, and check out our interactive demo.
- Why would I use AlchemyAPI?
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If you're a content portal, web developer, ad network, CMS provider, content publisher, or media monitoring firm, AlchemyAPI can provide significant value. AlchemyAPI automatically categorizes, tags, and enriches any text and web-based content. We offer multi-lingual support and advanced disambiguation features not found in any other solution.
By exposing the semantic richness contained within your data, AlchemyAPI can be used to:
- Automatically Generate Tag / Topic Clouds
- Improve Website Navigation
- Provide "Related Articles / Content" Website Features
- Enrich Content with Linked Data (LOD) Resources
- Target Ads Contextually
- ...and more!
- Is there a demo? How do I try it out?
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An interactive demo is available at: http://www.alchemyapi.com/api/demo.html
This demo illustrates named entity tagging, text categorization, language identification, and more. Enter any news article / blog website URL and AlchemyAPI will analyze the specified content, presenting the results in your web browser. A CNN article is analyzed by default.
- How do I use AlchemyAPI programmatically?
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AlchemyAPI can be utilized directly via it's Internet-accessible REST interface, or through any of our downloadable software developer kits. SDKs are provided in over a half-dozen programming languages, enabling easy integration of AlchemyAPI content analysis capabilities into your web, mobile, or standalone application.
- What languages does AlchemyAPI support?
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AlchemyAPI supports more than a half-dozen spoken languages, including English, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, and more! Our multi-lingual support is the most comprehensive in the industry; language coverage extends to the native tongue of more than 1.1 billion individuals!
- Can I use AlchemyAPI for commercial purposes?
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Yes, AlchemyAPI may be utilized for both personal and commercial purposes, even within the "AlchemyAPI Free" plan. Just be sure to abide by our API usage limits. If you require a Service Level Agreement, technical support, or more daily/monthly transactions, please inquire about our commercial support options.
- What are the usage limits? How many API calls am I allowed to make each day?
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"AlchemyAPI Free" == 1,000 calls daily, or 30,000 calls daily (for approved academic users)
"AlchemyAPI Basic" == 70,000 calls daily
"AlchemyAPI Professional" == 140,000 calls daily
"AlchemyAPI Metered" == Up to 200,000,000 calls daily
For more information on API service tiers please click here. - Do you offer a Service Level Agreement?
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Yes. We offer a Service Level Agreement for paid service tiers. Please inquire for more information on AlchemyAPI commercial products and support options.
- Do you offer technical support services?
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Yes. E-mail and telephone support services are available for paid service tiers. Please inquire for more information on AlchemyAPI commercial products and support options.
- Is any special access available for nonprofits?
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We offer special access for select education institutions and other nonprofits: Increased daily API limits, batched processing, and more. Please inquire for more information.
- How much text does AlchemyAPI require to generate results?
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AlchemyAPI prefers to be given at least a few paragraphs of text, but is capable of processing smaller utterances (e.g., Twitter posts). Certain API features such as automated language identification require a certain number of characters text (usually less than 20) to achieve ideal results.
- I have a question about AlchemyAPI. Who should I contact?
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See our Contact Page for more information.
