The map is public, and so is the data behind it. These are the read endpoints the site itself uses.
No key required. Read the notes below before you build on it.
/api/entitiesEvery work on the map: title, media type, year, creators, and the stored layout position. This is what the graph itself loads.
/api/edges/detailsThe real-world influence vocabulary already in use ("World War I", "Greek mythology"), most common first. Useful for matching your own labels to ours.
/api/statisticsThe figures behind the statistics page: volume, influence spreads, consensus, and the demographic distributions. Served from a snapshot refreshed daily.
/api/compareThe recorded route between two points, if there is one, with a confidence score per hop.
Parameters: source, target, and their kinds (work | author | real_world)
/api/releasesThe public changelog, newest first.
These are the same endpoints the site itself calls, so they are public reads and need no authentication. Please be reasonable with them: this is a small project on modest infrastructure, and a tight loop will affect real visitors. If you want a bulk copy of something, ask rather than scraping it a page at a time.
These endpoints exist to serve the site, and they will change when the site does. There is no version negotiation and no deprecation window. If you build something that depends on a response shape, pin what you rely on and expect to revisit it.
A connection on this map records that someone proposed an influence and a moderator accepted the evidence for it. It is not a claim of proven causation, and the confidence score is about how well-supported the record is, not how true the idea is. Please carry that distinction into anything you build.
If you publish anything using this data, credit the Media Influence Map and link back. The map is built by people writing up evidence one connection at a time, and a link is how they get found.
Anything that writes, and anything under moderation or administration, is gated behind an account and a role and is not part of this. Contributions go through the site so they enter the review queue like everyone else’s.
If you are doing research and the endpoints above do not give you what you need, get in touch and say what you are trying to answer. An export is usually easier for both of us than a workaround.
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