Threads offers a platform for fresh perspectives and community building around shared interests. Following the launch of the Threads API last year, which facilitated conversations for creators and businesses, several improvements were made for enhanced content discovery.
New Enhancements to the Threads API
Recent updates include:
- Location Tagging: Users can now search for and add a location to their Threads posts.
- Polls: The ability to add polls to new threads and retrieve results from existing ones.
- Text-Only Threads: Faster creation of text-only threads using the
auto_publish_textparameter. - Post Management: Users can delete their own posts.
- Profile and Post Retrieval: Access to public profiles and public posts created by them.
- Topic Tags: Ability to create posts with topic tags and search for public posts by these tags.
- Click Metrics: Query metrics to track link clicks.
- Date Range Search: Find relevant posts by specifying a date range with keywords.
- GIF Support: Fetch GIF media on posts with attachments.
- Reply Restrictions: Restrict replies to followers only.
- Real-Time Notifications: Get notified in real-time when mentioned in a post through a new webhook.
Getting Started
Resources such as self-serve developer documentation, a sample app, and the Threads API collection on the Postman API Platform are available to assist developers. Additionally, support for programmatically debugging access tokens has been introduced, allowing developers to inspect token permissions and expiration details, simplifying the building process on the Threads API.
