Membit Python Client

The Membit Python client provides powerful social media analytics and monitoring capabilities for your Python applications. Easily integrate trending discussion discovery, cluster analysis, and social post search with a simple and intuitive API.

Installation

pip install membit-python

Or with uv:

uv add membit-python

Quick Start

Basic Usage

from membit import MembitClient

# Initialize the client with API key
client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

# Or use environment variable MEMBIT_API_KEY
# client = MembitClient()

# Search for trending discussion clusters
clusters = client.cluster_search("artificial intelligence", limit=5)
print(clusters)

Features

🔥 Trending Discussion Clusters

Find and analyze trending discussions across social platforms with intelligent clustering.

🔍 Deep Cluster Analysis

Dive deeper into specific discussions to understand context and participants.

📱 Social Post Search

Search for individual social media posts on specific topics.

⚡ Async Support

Full async/await support for high-performance applications.

📊 Multiple Response Formats

Get data in JSON format for applications or LLM-optimized text for AI workflows.

Usage Examples

Finding Trending Discussion Clusters

from membit import MembitClient

# Initialize client with API key
client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")
# Or use environment variable MEMBIT_API_KEY
# client = MembitClient()

# Search for trending clusters
clusters = client.cluster_search("artificial intelligence", limit=5)

# clusters is a dict containing trending discussion clusters
for cluster in clusters.get("clusters", []):
    print(f"Cluster: {cluster['label']}")

Getting Detailed Cluster Information

from membit import MembitClient

# Initialize client with API key
client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

# First, find clusters
clusters = client.cluster_search("climate change")

# Get detailed info about the first cluster
if clusters.get("clusters"):
    cluster_label = clusters["clusters"][0]["label"]
    cluster_details = client.cluster_info(label=cluster_label, limit=10)
    print(cluster_details)

Searching for Individual Posts

from membit import MembitClient

# Initialize client with API key
client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

# Search for specific social posts
posts = client.post_search("machine learning breakthrough", limit=20)

# Access individual social media posts
for post in posts.get("posts", []):
    print(f"Post: {post}")

Using Different Response Formats

from membit import MembitClient

# Initialize client with API key
client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

# Get JSON response (default)
json_response = client.cluster_search("space exploration", output_format="json")
# Returns: dict with structured data

# Get LLM-optimized text response
llm_response = client.cluster_search("space exploration", output_format="llm")
# Returns: str with formatted text optimized for AI processing

Async Support

For applications that need high performance or handle multiple concurrent requests:

import asyncio
from membit import AsyncMembitClient

async def analyze_topics():
    client = AsyncMembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

    # Search for trending clusters asynchronously
    clusters = await client.cluster_search("tech news", limit=5)

    # Get detailed info for multiple clusters concurrently
    if clusters.get("clusters"):
        tasks = [
            client.cluster_info(label=cluster["label"])
            for cluster in clusters["clusters"][:3]
        ]
        cluster_details = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)

        for details in cluster_details:
            print(details)

# Run the async function
asyncio.run(analyze_topics())

API Reference

MembitClient(api_key=None, api_url=None)

Initialize the Membit client.

Parameters:

• api_key (str, optional): Your Membit API key. If not provided, uses MEMBIT_API_KEY environment variable.
• api_url (str, optional): Custom API URL. Uses default Membit API URL if not provided.

---

cluster_search(q, limit=10, output_format="json", timeout=60)

Get trending discussions across social platforms. Useful for finding topics of interest and understanding live conversations.

Parameters:

• q (str): Search query string
• limit (int, optional): Maximum number of results to return (default: 10)
• output_format (str, optional): Response format - "json" or "llm" (default: "json")
• timeout (int, optional): Request timeout in seconds (default: 60, max: 120)

Returns:

• dict: Trending discussion clusters (when output_format="json")
• str: Formatted text response (when output_format="llm")

---

cluster_info(label, limit=10, output_format="json", timeout=60)

Dive deeper into a specific trending discussion cluster. Useful for understanding the context and participants of a particular conversation.

Parameters:

• label (str): Cluster label obtained from cluster_search
• limit (int, optional): Maximum number of results to return (default: 10)
• output_format (str, optional): Response format - "json" or "llm" (default: "json")
• timeout (int, optional): Request timeout in seconds (default: 60, max: 120)

Returns:

• dict: Detailed cluster information (when output_format="json")
• str: Formatted text response (when output_format="llm")

---

post_search(q, limit=10, output_format="json", timeout=60)

Search for raw social posts. Useful when you need to find specific posts (not recommended for finding trending discussions).

Parameters:

• q (str): Search query string
• limit (int, optional): Maximum number of results to return (default: 10)
• output_format (str, optional): Response format - "json" or "llm" (default: "json")
• timeout (int, optional): Request timeout in seconds (default: 60, max: 120)

Returns:

• dict: Raw social posts (when output_format="json")
• str: Formatted text response (when output_format="llm")

Error Handling

The client includes comprehensive error handling:

from membit import MembitClient, MissingAPIKeyError

try:
    # Initialize client with API key
    client = MembitClient(api_key="your_api_key_here")

    result = client.cluster_search("python programming")

except MissingAPIKeyError:
    print("Please provide a valid API key")

except TimeoutError:
    print("Request timed out")

except Exception as e:
    print(f"An error occurred: {e}")

Requirements

• Python: >=3.10
• Dependencies:
  • requests>=2.25.0 (for synchronous client)
  • httpx>=0.28.1 (for asynchronous client)

Examples

Complete working examples are available in the examples/ directory:

• examples/client.py - Synchronous client usage
• examples/async_client.py - Asynchronous client usage

Running Examples

# Set your API key
export MEMBIT_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"

# Install dependencies
uv sync

# Run synchronous example
uv run examples/client.py

# Run asynchronous example
uv run examples/async_client.py

Development

Installing for Development

git clone <repository-url>
cd membit-python
uv sync

Running Tests

uv run pytest

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Support

For support or questions about the Membit Python client, please reach out to our support team.