Linganisha mbinu

	Ukusanyaji Data kwa kutumia API	Uzoefu wa Simu ya Mkononi
Nyanja	Metodolojia ya Dodoso	Metodolojia ya Dodoso
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	2000s–2010s (formalized as a research method)	1983
Mwanzilishi	Emerged from computational social science and web 2.0 platform practices	Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Reed Larson
Aina	Digital data collection technique	Intensive longitudinal data collection technique
Chanzo asilia	Salganik, M. J. (2018). Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691158648	Csikszentmihalyi, M., & Larson, R. (1987). Validity and reliability of the Experience-Sampling Method. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175(9), 526–536.
Majina mbadala	API data harvesting, API-driven data collection, programmatic data retrieval, API research data collection	ESM, Experience Sampling Method, Ecological Momentary Assessment, EMA
Zinazohusiana	5	5
Muhtasari	API-based data collection is a systematic technique in which a researcher sends structured requests to an application programming interface to retrieve data automatically from digital platforms, databases, or services. It is the primary method used in computational social science to gather large-scale social media records, government open data, financial data streams, and scientific repository content in machine-readable formats such as JSON or XML, enabling reproducible and scalable data acquisition that manual collection cannot match.	Mobile Experience Sampling (ESM) is an intensive longitudinal data-collection technique in which participants respond to brief, repeated questionnaires delivered to their smartphones at random or scheduled intervals throughout the day. By capturing thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and context at or near the moment they occur, ESM minimises retrospective recall bias and provides a high-resolution picture of psychological and behavioral fluctuations in everyday life.