sdk/README.md

# Socialhose SDKs

Official SDKs for the Socialhose Public API.

Socialhose is a social-listening and media-monitoring API for turning large streams of public mentions into usable campaign intelligence. It helps applications answer questions like:

- What are people saying about a campaign, brand, organization, product, policy, person, or event?
- Which platforms are driving the conversation?
- Is sentiment improving or deteriorating?
- Which mentions have the most reach or engagement?
- Which keywords, topics, or entities are trending?
- Who should receive alerts or mailing-list updates?

## What you can build

Use Socialhose SDKs to build:

- Social-listening dashboards for campaigns, topics, brands, people, organizations, or locations.
- Monitoring tools that search public mentions across supported platforms.
- Analytics views showing volume, reach, engagement, sentiment, platform mix, and growth.
- Trend and keyword reports.
- High-impact mention feeds ordered by recency or engagement.
- Entity pages that summarize one term/person/company/topic using mention-search facets.
- Alerting and mailing-list workflows backed by Socialhose mailing lists.
- Batch jobs, CLI scripts, or serverless functions that pull Socialhose data into another system.

## API access

API access is available with paid Socialhose subscriptions. See [Socialhose pricing](https://socialhose.net/pricing) for current plans, or use a publicly provided API key if Socialhose offers one from time to time.

API keys are provisioned by Socialhose or your account administrator. The SDKs consume existing keys; they do not create, rotate, or manage keys.

Keep API keys server-side. Do not commit keys, expose them in frontend bundles, or send them to browsers. For browser applications, call Socialhose from your own backend and return only the data your frontend needs.

## SDKs

- `sdks/javascript` — npm package `@socialhose/api`

Future SDKs can live beside it, e.g. `sdks/python`, `sdks/go`, or `sdks/php`.

## JavaScript / TypeScript

Set the key server-side before using the SDK:

```bash
export SOCIALHOSE_API_KEY="sh_your_key_here"
```

```bash
npm install @socialhose/api
```

```ts
import { SocialhoseClient } from '@socialhose/api';

const socialhose = new SocialhoseClient({
  apiKey: process.env.SOCIALHOSE_API_KEY!,
});

const mentions = await socialhose.getMentions({
  content_search: 'hospital',
  ordering: '-published_at',
});

console.log(mentions.count);
```

Documentation lives with the package:

- [Quick README](./sdks/javascript/README.md)
- [Usage guide](./sdks/javascript/docs/GUIDE.md)
- [API reference](./sdks/javascript/docs/API.md)
- [Entity analytics](./sdks/javascript/docs/ENTITY_ANALYTICS.md)
- [Caching and retries](./sdks/javascript/docs/CACHING_AND_RETRIES.md)
- [Examples](./sdks/javascript/examples)