Recipes / Watch what is said about a named individual
Watch what is said about a named individual
/stories in hybrid mode. The parameters matter less
than the reasoning behind them, so that is most of what is below.
The request
GET /stories
?q="<full name>" <disambiguating term>
&mode=hybrid
&from=<now - 7d>Why these parameters
Personal names collide constantly, so add a disambiguating term — the company, the role, the sector. Hybrid mode matters more here than for companies because names get transliterated differently in every script and abbreviated differently in every register.
What comes back
Story clusters mentioning the person. Expect a lower precision than a company query; personal-name ambiguity is not fully solvable without entity resolution.
How this goes wrong
Querying a common name with no disambiguation and concluding the coverage is enormous. Most of it is other people.
When this is the wrong tool
Monitoring coverage of a private individual raises obligations that monitoring a company does not. Confine this to public figures acting in a public capacity, and check what your jurisdiction requires before building anything persistent.