I was wondering if there is a way to post a reply to a specific tweet using Zapier? By the looks of it, the only way would be to use webhooks and post the json, but it just would be so much simpler if I could the built in twitter functionality of Zapier.
This isn't possible because it goes against Twitter's policies: https://zapier.com/help/twitter/#using-zapier-as-a-twitter-auto-responder
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Is it possible to "draft" a message using API? There is draft_id param in chat.postMessage, but I just don't understand how to use it.
UPD: It's not possible =(
There is no documented API to create draft messages in Slack.
I would suggest dropping a mail to slack and ask about your specific use case.
I am new in Twitter API. I have a requirement like I have to pull the information of an authenticated twitter user to know the number of followers. I can do this using REST API but I have a problem here. So I have taken the way to use Twitter User Streams.
I am not able to integrate this functionality in the site. I am using twitter console( https://dev.twitter.com/console ). But there I am not able to get any kind of result, it actually hangs/shows gateway timeout. And that's for I am not able to configure that how to write the code for this or how to use this in site. I am not passing any kind of parameters.
So, any body can please help in this would be very grateful( a clean sample code for this or any link where to get the good documentation ). I have already checked with twitter dev documentations.
Thanks in advance :)
Is it possible to make a request to Twitter API in a single like? (http request?)
In example you can get the JSON in the Facebook API by the following single url:
https://graph.facebook.com/me?access_token=ACCESS_TOKEN
Can something be possible similarly in twitter. E.g.:
https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json?consumer_key=CONSUMER_KEY&consumer_secret=CONSUMER_SECRET&access_token=ACCESS_TOEKN&token_secret=TOKEN_SECRET
I find the twitter documentation quite stiff. If somebody has another proposal to get me understand how the communication with the API works I would be glad.
I have this project that's based on a Twitter Bot. NOT an abusive or spammer bot. Just a robot that will reply with information about my system when it's mentioned.
The thing is: I expect to have about 3000 mentions/hour. Which means I have to send about 3000 replies/hour.
I know Twitter API calls are limited to 350/h when the app is authenticated and 150/h when it's not. But I've also read about it being 1000/h somewhere in the Twitter Discussion boards.
Anyway, how can I deal with having to send so many replies/hour?
I thought about creating multiple Twitter accounts and delegating some of the replies to them in order to being able to reply to all of them, but I do realize it's not a pretty solution.
Does anyone have a better idea?
Your best bet is to use Streaming.
Connecting
API Params (JSON)
Basically, you open up a connection with their server with your credentials and instead of reading the return stream and closing, you just keep reading. When you want to make a request, you just send another header or something.
For a web-application I am writing (Rails) I am looking for ways to post back publick mentions about that post. Mentions on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and so on.
Starting with Twitter, I am looking for a way to get these tweets back into the application. Obviously I could simply monitor the twitter firehose (through their search, most probably) for a certain url (the url of the post), if found, extract that and place that tweet as new comment to the post. But this requires me to invent something similar for each and every social network.
Whereas there is a generic protocol for this: Salmon, allowing services to push such comments (tweets mentioning your url) through PubSubHubbub (PSH).
I did not find any mention of this on the Twitter API itself; they are not using PSH or Salmon (yet) it seems.
But maybe there are thirdpartis that do? Know any? Are there other projects that wrap around Twitters firehose and allow you to approach Twitter as if it is a Salmon-speaking pubsubhubbub? And What about Reddit, or Facebook?
The Twitter API TOS explicitly forbids the re-distribution of tweets via APIs*, except for Twitter's partners. These are DataSift and Gnip - but they don't do what you are looking for.
Your best option would be to simply monitor the filterhose.
* Actually, it's allowed to share IDs, but those are pretty useless since you have to look them up manually.