BuzzSumo API

Name: BuzzSumo API
Brand: BuzzSumo API
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For Agents

Search content, find influencers, monitor mentions, and analyse backlinks across the BuzzSumo index. Authenticate with an api_key query parameter.

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the BuzzSumo API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the BuzzSumo API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbuzzsumo.com%2Fbuzzsumo" | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL "https://jentic.com/install.sh?src=apis&api=%2Fapis%2Fbuzzsumo.com%2Fbuzzsumo" | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with BuzzSumo API.

Search articles by keyword, domain, or topic across the BuzzSumo index

Identify influencers by topic and engagement

Discover trending content within a topic or window

Set up alerts to monitor brand mentions and keywords

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Use Cases

Patterns agents use BuzzSumo API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Content Strategy Research

Use article and trend searches to identify what is performing in a topic area before commissioning new content. Marketing teams use this to prioritise topics by engagement and to spot emerging trends within hours rather than days. /search/articles and /search/trends are the workhorses.

Run /search/articles for the topic 'AI agents' over the last 30 days, sort by total engagement, and return the top 10 with author and publication

Media Monitoring and Brand Alerts

Configure alerts on brand names, product names, or competitor terms via the alerts endpoints, then poll /alerts/{id}/mentions for new captured mentions. PR and comms teams use this to react quickly to coverage and adverse mentions. Alerts can be paired with /alerts/{id}/stats for trend reporting.

Create an alert for 'Acme product launch', poll /alerts/{id}/mentions every hour, and post new captures to a Slack channel

Influencer Discovery for Outreach

Use /search/influencers to identify writers and creators with reach in a target topic, then enrich the list with /search/articles/sharers to see who shared specific URLs. PR teams use this to build outreach lists for product launches in days rather than weeks.

Search /search/influencers for the topic 'developer tools', export the top 50 with their engagement scores, and write to a CRM as a campaign list

Backlink Analysis

Pull backlinks for a target URL or domain via the backlinks endpoints to understand who is linking to your content or a competitor's. SEO teams use this for link profile audits and competitive analysis. Backlink data updates regularly so periodic pulls give a moving picture.

Fetch backlinks for a competitor blog post URL, group by referring domain, and return the top 20 referring domains by link count

AI Agent Content Research

Through Jentic, an AI agent can run BuzzSumo content research on a marketer's behalf - surfacing top articles, influencers, and mentions. Agents discover the right operation by intent, load the schema, and execute, removing the need to read API docs.

Search Jentic for 'find top buzzsumo articles', load the schema for GET /search/articles, and execute with topic and date-range filters

Key Endpoints

18 endpoints — jentic publishes the only available openapi specification for buzzsumo api, keeping it validated and agent-ready.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/search/articles

Search articles by topic and filters

GET

/search/trends

Discover trending content

GET

/search/influencers

Find influencers by topic

POST

/alerts

Create a new alert

GET

/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions

Read mentions captured by an alert

GET

/alerts/{alert_id}/stats

Read alert engagement stats

GET

/projects

List projects

GET

/search/articles

Search articles by topic and filters

GET

/search/trends

Discover trending content

GET

/search/influencers

Find influencers by topic

POST

/alerts

Create a new alert

GET

/alerts/{alert_id}/mentions

Read mentions captured by an alert

Why Jentic?

What agents get from Jentic-routed access to this vendor.

Setup

Wiring BuzzSumo by hand means attaching your API key as the api_key query parameter on every request, writing your own pagination over search results, and adding backoff for plan-tied 429s. Through Jentic you install once, import the BuzzSumo API from the API Directory, store the key once, and your agent calls it.

Permission scoping

BuzzSumo puts the alert or project id in the URL path (/alerts/{alert_id}, /projects/{project_id}), so you can pin your agent to specific alerts or projects rather than the whole workspace. You choose the operations it may call, so destructive ones like deleting an alert are not included unless you add them.

Credential isolation

Your BuzzSumo API key is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and attached as the api_key query parameter at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'find top buzzsumo articles on a topic' or 'monitor mentions of my brand', and Jentic returns the matching operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

FAQs

Specific to using BuzzSumo API through Jentic.

Why is there no official OpenAPI spec for BuzzSumo API?

BuzzSumo does not publish an OpenAPI specification. Jentic generates and maintains this spec so that AI agents and developers can call BuzzSumo API via structured tooling. It is validated against the live API and kept up to date. Get started with Jentic One, the self-hosted execution layer.

What authentication does the BuzzSumo API use?

BuzzSumo uses an API key passed as the api_key query parameter on each request. Through Jentic, the key is stored in the encrypted vault and attached at execution time so it never enters the agent's context.

Can I create alerts with the BuzzSumo API?

Yes. POST /alerts creates a new alert; GET /alerts lists existing alerts; DELETE /alerts/{alert_id} removes one. Captured mentions are read via GET /alerts/{alert_id}/mentions and engagement stats via GET /alerts/{alert_id}/stats.

What are the rate limits for the BuzzSumo API?

BuzzSumo does not document hard rate limits in the spec; limits are tied to your subscription plan. For high-volume search jobs, paginate carefully and back off on 429 responses rather than retrying immediately.

How do I find top articles on a topic through Jentic?

Run pip install jentic, then search Jentic with the query 'find top buzzsumo articles', load the schema for GET /search/articles, and execute with the q parameter set to your topic plus optional date and engagement filters.

Can I analyse backlinks with this API?

Yes. The backlinks resource returns referring URLs and domains for a given target, which is useful for link profile audits and competitive SEO research.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the BuzzSumo API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, your own rules decide which BuzzSumo operations and credentials your agent may use. You can grant read-only searches like GET /search/articles, /search/influencers, and /search/trends while withholding writes such as POST /alerts, and destructive calls like DELETE /alerts/{alert_id} are excluded unless you add them. Since BuzzSumo puts the id in the path, as in /alerts/{alert_id} and /projects/{project_id}, you can pin the agent to specific alerts or projects instead of the whole workspace.