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Beamer

In-app announcement service for product posts, categories, comments, reactions, and reader notifications.

Helps product update flows that count posts and reactions, list unread items per user, read comments, and pull category metadata for a public feed.

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Example Use Cases

These are example ways Snow can use Beamer when building apps with you. This list is meant to show examples, not document every possible capability. Connecting an account does not make Snow run these automatically on its own.

Count Post Comments

Tool to count existing comments on a specific post. Use when you need the total number of comments matching specific filters.

Count Post Reactions

Tool to count existing reactions on a specific post. Use when you need the total number of reactions for a given post.

Count Posts

Tool to count existing posts. Use when you need the number of posts matching specific filters.

Count Unread Posts

Tool to count unread posts for a user. Use when you need the number of posts the user would see when opening their Beamer feed.

Get Category

Tool to retrieve metadata for a Beamer category by its ID. Use when you need category information for filtering or grouping posts. Beamer uses a fixed set of categories: new, improvement, fix, comingsoon, announcement, and other.

Get Feed

Tool to retrieve the URL for your standalone feed. Use after embedding to fetch the feed link for embedding or sharing.

Get Notification

Tool to retrieve details of a specific notification by its unique notification ID. Use after obtaining the notification ID to fetch its full details.

Get Notifications

Tool to fetch unread notifications. Use after providing user context to retrieve and mark notifications as read.

Get Post Comments

Tool to retrieve comments for a specific post. Use after identifying the post ID to list its comments.

Get Post Reactions

Tool to retrieve all reactions associated with a specific post. Use when you need to list reactions and optionally filter by date, reaction type, or pagination.