Overview

OpenDover API is exposed to the public as SOAP-based web service. Web Service definition file can be downloaded here:

WSDL: opendover_api_v1_soap.wsdl

Use URL below to make API calls:

Endpoint URL: http://api.opendover.nl/api_v1/soap

OpenDover API  Web Service exposes the following methods:

• searchSentiments
• searchBareSentiments
• searchObjectSentiments
• searchBareObjectSentiments
• detectSubjectDomain
• getAvailableSubjectDomains
• getSubjectDomainByCode

The search methods (searchSentiment, searchBareSentiments, searchObjectSentiments and searchBareObjectSentiments)  are the primary methods of the API. These methods search for sentiments in a given text. They accept at least two parameters. The first one is your API key. The second one is a text to process. The methods return sentiments found. In addition to sentiments some of these methods also return the list of subject domains a given text is related to.

detectSubjectDomain method calculates a list of subject domains for a given text. The result consists of domains which are currently supported by OpenDover. Some of sentiment search methods perform subject domain detection as well. So detectSubjectDomain can be considered as auxiliary method.

getAvailableSubjectDomains method returns the complete list of subject domains which are currently supported by OpenDover. getSubjectDomainByCode returns the code and name of a subject domain.