Likes API: Sample Flows

This article presents possible use cases and corresponding sample flows that you can support. This can be a helpful jumping off point as you plan your implementation.

Create a blog engagement dashboard

Your project displays blog analytics that combine post statistics with like data to show content engagement metrics. You want to identify which posts are most popular and track user engagement trends.

To create a blog engagement dashboard:

1. Call Query Posts to retrieve all published blog posts.
2. For each post, call Query Likes to get the total likes for that post.
3. Call Get Post Metrics to retrieve view counts and other engagement metrics for each post.
4. Combine the data to calculate engagement scores (likes + views + comments) for ranking posts by popularity.
5. Display the results in your dashboard, showing top-performing posts with their like counts and engagement metrics.

Manage featured content

Your blog automatically promotes popular posts to featured status.

To manage featured content:

1. Create a custom logic to run weekly that calls Query Likes with date filters to find posts with the most likes in the past week.
2. For the top-liked posts, call Get Post to retrieve each post's current details and category assignments.
3. Call Update Post to mark highly-liked posts as featured by setting featured: true.