Q: How do I allow my users to display their instagram feed on my site?
I have a Rails 5 application that has been relying on an unofficial, and undocumented, API from Instagram (Basically appending /?__1 after the URL). I want to allow all my users to input their profile URL and then display their Instagram feed on their public profiles.
I have look at https://www.instagram.com/developer/embedding/ but it says nothing about embedding actual feeds.
What if I let all my users integrate with Instagram using oauth and then query their feed with a specific token?
Would be very interested in hearing what others do. Thanks.
Background:
I'm using the react-boilerplate to build a personal website, and I would like to display my latest tweet in the footer. I do not want the embedded card, only the tweet itself (similar to the Momentum extension).
This appears to be what I am looking for:
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline
Question:
How is my website supposed to authenticate with the Twitter API, without including the authentication data in the website's codebase?
Should I have an app in the middle that processes the requests, or is it possible for my website to directly retrieve my latest tweet each time a user accesses my page?
Thanks
How can I download all (or most number) of someone's twitter timeline?
Is there any website can do this, or maybe some application or excel sheet.
I am not that good with API, so anything simple will be good.
You will have to use the Twitter Timeline REST API and iterate to get up to 3200 tweets from his timeline.
Documentation : https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline
If you are using C# I can provide an example using Tweetinvi.
When someone tweets sometime to a page, and twitter crawls the page for data such as checking Twitter Cards, does anyone know what User Agent Twitter uses?
Twitter uses the User-Agent of Twitterbot (with version, such as Twitterbot/1.0) when crawling pages to find Twitter Cards markup. Twitter's crawler respects robots.txt when scanning URLs if you ever need to create exceptions.
Read more on Twitter Cards URL Crawling & Caching.
I'm currently using Twitter's RSS API (example) to retrieve people's tweets for an app. However, once version 1.1 of their API comes out, I won't be able to do this anymore. What's a simple replacement I can use for this?
Unfortunately the answer is: "There is none."
Twitter continues to lock down their platform, as they have since the switch to OAuth. If you want to add content to Twitter, you can do that easily. If you want to get content out of Twitter, well, you'll have to conform to Twitter's requirements.
RSS was an easy way of getting content out of Twitter, and so they killed it. They'll tell you that it wasn't really used, but that's a load of bull and they know it, but it sounds good and most people will simply swallow it.
There is a workaround that you can use until March 2013:
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/UserName.rss
Replace 'UserName' with the actual twitter username you want.
But after sometime in March/April 2013, that will cease to work and you'll have to use OAuth and json to parse Twitter feeds.
Use Twitter RSS - Google Apps Script from github to convert Twitter API 1.1 to RSS. Using this option you can get search results, users' timelines, users’ favorites or even Twitter Lists.
I've put together two mit licensed php scripts and instructions so you can fetch and cache twitter user timelines as RSS..
The most important is to cache the tweets since you are only allowed to call the API 15 times per 15 minutes..
Have a look at twitterrss.net
I've been looking for an answer to this for a while, basically as I wanted to provide a replacement for the Twitter triggers in IFTTT. When IFTTT removed them we could use Twitter's RSS feeds. However now, with v1 of their API retired, you have to authenticate any requests and they no longer off RSS feeds. It's a shame because it's closing the door for a lot of newbie developers out there.
I'd definitely recommend checking out twitter-rss.com in the answer above, but you might want to check out a solution I've come up with. It is called Twools and it's almost ready.
Twools started off as a way to get back RSS feeds from Twitter. Twitter
retired version 1 of their API in June 2013 as well as retiring RSS feeds. As
well as not having access to RSS feeds, you need to be authenticated to use
the API which
raises the bar for Twitter users and developers. It has been my intention to
make this as easy as possible for you install, however you do need to install
this on your own website (PHP is required). It is just a case of editing a few
lines in a file (with your Twitter app details) and uploading to your website.
Twools offers a number of RSS feeds from the Twitter API:
Your home timeline
User timeline (yours or another user's)
Your mentions
Your favorites
List timeline (from a list that you own)
Direct messages received (disabled by default)
Direct messages Sent (disabled by default)
Twitter Search
New followers
New friends
You can filter the results from the Twitter API by only outputting tweets
containing certain keywords, hashtags or screen names or even by the app used
to send the Tweet. As well as that you can filter based on the user (currently
their location and language). Finally, you can modify the data outputted in
the RSS feed by removing URLs, screen names, hashtags etc or share your recipe
with other folders. As well as an RSS feed generator, Twools has a basic
direct message spam filter (experimental- use at your own risk!) and a simple
social media management tool (basically an HTML version of the RSS filters).
You can also keep an eye on your API usage on the Status page.
With Twools and your app you could
Your tweets when you mention a specific hashtag
Your Twitter Faves:
Get new followers from the a certain country or location
Get tweets when someone mentions Starbucks negatively in a Tweet in the UK
Get tweets when someone tweets to an article on your website
For more information, see http://twools.it/