NicheDB
Sources in, feeds out: an open, ever-growing database of real-time public data, enriched.
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What it can do
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Sources in, feeds out: an open, ever-growing database of real-time public data, enriched.
Server tool list (21)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| stats | What this deployment holds: collections, sources, items, items added today, feeds. |
| list_collections | The collections (niches) with their source, feed and item counts. |
| list_adapters | Every adapter this deployment can run, with the config fields each takes. Use before add_source. |
| list_enrichers | Every enricher (YouTube videos, Wikipedia, repo stats, downloads, company profiles, TL;DRs) and which collections turn it on by default. Items carry their results under `enrichment`. |
| list_sources | Sources with status, last run and item counts. Optionally one collection. |
| list_feeds | Public feeds, most followed first. Optionally one collection. |
| feed_items | What a feed selects, newest first. Page with before_id. |
| recent_items | Newest items, optionally narrowed to a collection, source or kind. |
| upcoming | Items dated in the future (releases, launches, deadlines), soonest first. |
| search_items | Full-text search over titles, summaries and tags. Use this first when you know a name. |
| match_items | Which title, channel or fixture is this name? Give a file name, a release name or a playlist entry ("Top.Gun.Maverick.2022.1080p.mkv", "US: ESPN2 HD"); it is cleaned (year, season and episode, quality tags, playlist decorations) and matched by similarity. A matchup ("NFL: Chiefs vs Bills", "Lakers @ Celtics", "Rangers at Celtic 19:45") is answered by the fixture whose two teams those are, kicking off between 36 hours ago and 7 days ahead unless date narrows it. Each result carries a score in 0..1. Use screen for films and TV, channels for television channels, sports for fixtures. |
| get_item | One item with its full adapter payload. |
| create_feed | Save a query as a feed (needs a key). Sources, kinds and tags narrow; q is a text match; upcoming keeps only future-dated items. |
| follow_feed | Follow a feed as the key owner (needs a key). Channels: webpush, email, webhook. |
| submit_feed | Suggest an RSS or Atom feed for the index. No key needed. An admin reviews every suggestion before anything is fetched; approved podcast feeds are handed to rssamplifier, everything else becomes a source here. |
| search_profiles | People: one entry per person assembled from every app that serves their OpenProfile.md (podcasters from p0dcasters, public profiles from OutreachGraph). Search by name, headline or anything in the document; newest change first. Each answer carries the page, the openprofile.md URL, accounts, topics, Broadcast shows and the Guest section. |
| get_profile | One person by id, `<slug>-<id>` or handle: the parsed view and the OpenProfile.md as served. |
| claim_profile | Claim a profile as the key owner (needs a key). Proven when the key owner’s email is one the profile lists, or when the person’s site or show page links back to the profile’s nichedb page. An admin may claim on behalf of an email. |
| update_profile | Edit a profile you own (needs a key). Send `markdown`, a whole OpenProfile.md that replaces what you wrote before, or any of `name`, `headline`, `identity` (key: value, null removes), `sections` (name: body, `none` removes), `handle`, `public`. What you write wins over every source and survives every re-read. |
| add_source | Add a source: an adapter with a config, fetched on a schedule (needs a key; admins and Pro). Call list_adapters first for the fields. |
| run_source | Fetch a source now instead of waiting for its schedule (needs a key; owner or admin). |