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For Developers

The datasets used to generate the visualizations are available for download formatted as JSON. Simply pass the querystring ?format=json to the visualization data you want:

http://archivist.visitmix.com/{username}/{archive_id}/{visualization}?format=json

The visualizations names are as follows:

Volume Over Time: volume
Top Users: users
Tweet vs. Retweet: retweets
Top Words: wordcloud
Top Urls: urls
Source of Tweets: source

For example, to get the volume dataset might look like:

http://archivist.visitmix.com/mixonline/1/volume?format=json

Want to run your own instance of The Archivist?

Go for it. The source code can be downloaded from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/archivist. Feel free to get in touch about this at archivist@microsoft.com.