Hashtag APIs# Hashtag API
## About Hashtag APIs
Social media has helped in learning human behaviors and responses to given topics. The discoverability of interesting conversations revolving around specific themes and issues is critical. The use of pound sign (#), popularly called the hash sign, overwhelmingly helps in brand promotions, clickthrough rates, and targeting audiences on social media.
Hashtags began with Twitter, and their success has seen many people employ them in other social media platforms. Typically, social media holders use the pound sign, followed by words or phrases of interest, without any space. However, misuse of hashtags has resulted in penalties to account holders. Their immense advantages have to lead to the creation of APIs.
A hashtag API is an application programming interface that helps in finding and retrieving certain topics or themes based on hashtags.
## How a hashtag API works
Search and identify an API provider, then request for a key. The key allows you to use the developer's API console. Select your preferred coding language for the API based on the provision by the platform.
Build your API endpoints by assigning the host that you want to retrieve the hashtags. Set the required parameters and optional parameters. The endpoint allows you to make calls to the API, and it responds commonly by the XML or JSON data format.
Depending on the endpoint used, you can search hashtags, order them by popularity, find the critical influencer, get the top language used with it, and get related hashtags.
## Users
**Marketers** - Marketing departments use APIs to find popular hashtags for their marketing campaigns. Also, marketers can find their target audience and refine their marketing strategies.
**Event Managers** - Events managers use APIs to promote their forthcoming events. During events, managers can use the hashtag to show the live progress of their events.
**Influencers** - Influencers can assess their impact on the social media network through the use of APIs. The data help them justify their following and influence marketers who want to promote their brands with them.
**Social Media Platforms** - Social media platforms use hashtag APIs to monitor the use of hashtags on their media. Their algorithm is smart to recognize those who misuse the feature for warnings or penalties. Commercializing the APIs helps them to generate income.
## Importance
- Easy to integrate with different systems
- Extensive database with historical and real-time trends
- Fast way to get data for analysis
- Flexibility and automation
## Expectations
The expectation when using this API is to produce high efficiency when analyzing hashtag data.
Free examples include Hashtagy, RiteKit, Talkwalker, Ritetag, Tagboard, and keywordtool.
## Best Hashtag APIs
1. [Hashtagy Generate Hashtags](https://rapidapi.com/miguel.aka.kelter/api/hashtagy-generate-hashtags)
2. [TwineSocial](https://rapidapi.com/aaronfessler/api/twinesocial)
3. [RiteKit](https://rapidapi.com/RiteKit/api/ritekit)
4. [Hashtag](https://rapidapi.com/deftcoders/api/hashtag2)
5. [Instagram](https://rapidapi.com/Gruntwork/api/instagram29)
6. [Instagram Data](https://rapidapi.com/logicbuilder/api/instagram-data1)
7. [Tagdef](https://rapidapi.com/snokleby/api/tagdef)
## Hashtag API SDKs
All Hashtag APIs are supported and made available in [multiple developer programming languages and SDKs](https://docs.rapidapi.com/v2.0/docs/getting-started-with-rapidapi-sdks) including:
1. Node.js
2. PHP
3. Python
4. Ruby
5. Objective-C
6. Java (Android)
7. C# (.NET)
8. cURL
Just select your preference from any API endpoints page.
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Tagdef.com is the worlds largest hashtag dictionary. Use this api to access these definitions. The content is user-generated, and the directory currently contains over 60.000 definitions. The hashtags can have many definitions each, ordered by user-votes.
The hashtags are often related to Twitter , but is also commonly used on Pinterest and Google+ .
This API is free to use, but you must provide a clickable link back to the tagdef.com page for the given tag when using information from the API. This link can be found in the uri part of the reply.
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