How to get the full direct message using twitter REST API - twitter

I tried to use the following endpoints to get the contents of one or more direct messages:
direct_messages.json
direct_messages/show.json?id={id}
The messages are returned correctly, the only problem is that the text of the message is truncated to ~140 chars, and the final part of the message is substituted with a shortened link ( t.co ), that when open points to https://twitter.com/messages/(\d+)-(\d+)
The link can't be opened using the REST API, and I have no idea how to retrieve the last part of the message.

you just have to add full_text=true as stated here: https://twittercommunity.com/t/removing-the-140-character-limit-from-direct-messages/41348

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How do I post a snippet to slack channel

I am trying to post log info to slack and some of these logs can get pretty big. Is there a way to send it as a snippet so that slack doesn't chunk the text into multiple messages?
You can post a snippet to a Slack channel using the API method files.upload.
In order for this to work you need to:
Use the content (not the file) parameter to upload the content of
your file.
Provide the name of the channel in the channels parameter where the
snippet should be posted.
The filetype is optional. Slack will determine the type of your
file based on the filename or "magic bytes" of the file. e.g. using
text as filetype will work.

Decode url_encoded_fmt_stream_map to valid Url

Im using url_encoded_fmt_stream_map to get a List of Youtube VideoStream "urls".
I want to use these urls to show Youtube videos in my VideoView.
My method pretty much returns a String Array containing Strings like this:
sig=3E0D90E459ADEF9F88553D716B9275930A8AA418.AD0319F9287244E34CCA97F7DE245C0606DD46C5&itag=45&fallback_host=tc.v22.cache5.c.youtube.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fr4---sn-uigxx50n-8pxl.c.youtube.com%2Fvideoplayback%3Fsparams%3Dcp%252Cid%252Cip%252Cipbits%252Citag%252Cratebypass%252Csource%252Cupn%252Cexpire%26id%3D4e6580527662c67d%26cp%3DU0hVSVlQV19FUENONV9RSkFIOnZ3SkZXb3hfdUdp%26source%3Dyoutube%26fexp%3D919110%252C913564%252C916624%252C932000%252C906383%252C902000%252C919512%252C929903%252C931202%252C900821%252C900823%252C931203%252C931401%252C909419%252C913566%252C908529%252C930807%252C919373%252C930803%252C906836%252C920201%252C929602%252C930101%252C930603%252C900824%252C910223%26ms%3Dau%26mv%3Dm%26mt%3D1364933359%26sver%3D3%26itag%3D45%26key%3Dyt1%26ip%3D178.115.248.80%26newshard%3Dyes%26upn%3DNLMBgU-0oUc%26expire%3D1364959706%26ipbits%3D8%26ratebypass%3Dyes&quality=hd720&type=video%2Fwebm%3B+codecs%3D%22vp8.0%2C+vorbis%22
If you have a close look at it, you can see that this String actually contains valid information. Unfortunately I have no idea how to extract a valid url out of this.
How would I do that?
If I create an URI with the String above and add it to my VideoView, a message "Can't play this video." pops up.
As you probably know, youtube link looks like that:
http://r6---sn-nhpax-ua8l.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?algorithm=throttle-factor&burst=40&cp=U0hVTFlTUV9HUUNONV9RTVVCOkk4ams1XzRlZUpq&cpn=qAthIxAZB16Q6_qB&expire=1367983127&factor=1.25&fexp=927900%2C919357%2C921716%2C916623%2C922911%2C931009%2C932000%2C932004%2C906383%2C904479%2C901208%2C925714%2C929119%2C931202%2C900821%2C900823%2C912518%2C911416%2C930807%2C919373%2C906836%2C926403%2C900824%2C912711%2C929606%2C910075&id=932a6c200e40b791&ip=84.228.249.95&ipbits=8&itag=34&key=yt1&ms=au&mt=1367957244&mv=m&newshard=yes&ratebypass=yes&signature=7E86D1813AE13CEB544CFF3749FBD042FF50EE91.AF7D6D9DCF286D291825630E733B3407683C46C9&source=youtube&sparams=algorithm%2Cburst%2Ccp%2Cfactor%2Cid%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Csource%2Cupn%2Cexpire&sver=3&upn=t0jDC5Yk7Go
And as you said, all the parameters we need are shown in your string.
There are 2 important parameters we need to extract from your string: url and signature.
The Link eventually should look like this: url + "&signature=" + sig.
You can take a look at my code, where I extract all the available links out of youtube link. It's wriitten in java for an android app: link
Thank you for your effort.
I solved this problem by sticking to the official YouTube API. Also see this question:
Getting YouTube Video ID including parameters

Google reader public RSS get more than 9 items

We need to parse the data from a google reader public rss feed, the problem is that the url parameter n=numerofitemstoretrieve only works up to n=9
For example in our test url:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15926769355350523044%2Flabel%2FPublicas%20RSS?n=2
Retrieves 2 news items
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user%2F15926769355350523044%2Flabel%2FPublicas%20RSS?n=20
Retrieves only 9 news items
How can we overcome this limitation? Is there another parameter for this case? Or another method?
We found that using this alternative url the n parameter works fine:
https://www.google.com/reader/api/0/stream/contents/feed/http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15926769355350523044%2Flabel%2FPublicas%20RSS?n=20
The only problem is the output format its different this way, so if someone finds a better solution we will grant the response to him/her
It seems the results are cropped only when the url is viewed in the browser...if you get the web contents from code it returns the correct item count...(in contrast using the alternative url the returned contents are right both ways: getting them from code as well as viewing it in the browser)
In Atom format (link in the top right in the two urls in the OP) :
http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F15926769355350523044%2Flabel%2FPublicas%20RSS?n=20
The content with /api/ in the URL in the second post is in JSON format, slightly harder to parse than the Atom XML.
https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/26567/how-to-raise-google-reader-rss-feed-entry-limit

facebook graph api returns error 2500 when there are commas in the id url

I'm attempting to retrieve the "shares" graph data for a number of pages in JSON format. I suspect that the errors I am encountering stem from the fact that some of the URLs have commas in them, and are being parsed as an attempt to pass multiple ids.
Returns graph data.
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2012/08/23/backstreet-boys-howie-dorough-expecting-second-son/
Returns error 2500 "Cannot specify an empty identifier"
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20624518,00.html
Encode the commas, still returns 2500
https://graph.facebook.com/?ids=http://www.people.com.people.article/0%2C%2C20624518%2C00.html
There doesn't seem to a way around it other than to use the normal inspection
http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20624518,00.html
You may have to file a bug at http://developers.facebook.com/bugs though I feel as the answer would most likely be "Status by design".
You could try using FQL instead, querying the link_stat table:
SELECT url, normalized_url, share_count, comments_fbid FROM link_stat
WHERE url = 'http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20624518,00.html'
(See result in Graph API Explorer.) You can also use WHERE url IN ("…", "…", …) to check multiple URLs at once.
This also returns a comments_fbid of 10151022112466453, and that one you can look up via the API, https://graph.facebook.com/10151022112466453
Maybe this can work as a workaround, until Facebook fixes this problem.

URL for a link to Twitter for a specific tweet

I have some Javascript that uses Twitter API to get tweets. I parse the data and use jQuery to generate HTML for the DOM.
An aspect of what I want to display is a "View this tweet" link -- yeah, sorta sounds silly, but it allows a user to get a URL for a specific tweet.
I am generating an a tag with an href. The URL is of the form:
http://twitter.com/{twitter-user-id}/status/{tweet-status-id}
where the content in curly braces is actual data extracted from the tweet (no, I am not including the curly braces). For example:
http://twitter.com/Atechtrader/status/57432099984130050
What happens in operation is that this works for some tweets, but not others. For the ones that fails, the Twitter server responds with content that says the requested page does not exist.
Am I doing something wrong?
https://twitter.com/statuses/ID should work.
it will redirect to the needed status.
Unfortunately, all of the answers provided so far rely on an HTTP redirect.
The direct link is of the form: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/{tweet-status-id}
FYI: id_str is the variable you need to call instead of id
id_str should be taken from the tweet object and replaced in
https://twitter.com/statuses/[id_str]
You can use like:
http://twitter.com/itdoesnotmatter/status/[YOURID]
Twitter redirect based on status ID not username.
It works for desktop and mobile.
You can use
'https://www.twitter.com/'+ user.screen_name+'/status/' + id_str
I've been tried it. It's work good:
- Web : https://twitter.com/statuses/ID
- Mobile && Web: https://twitter.com/User_ID/statuses/Tweet_ID
I hope it's helpful for you.

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