With Twitter: when you manually add a photo to a tweet, a button appears asking "Who's in this photo." You can use that to tag multiple twitter users in that photo. Note that this is separate from a simple #mention in the tweet text itself. Attaching users to the photo does not incur any further character cost from the tweet itself.
Is there a way to accomplish this through API calls?
Presently our custom CMS posts tweets using the "POST media/upload" call followed by the "Post statuses/update" (which includes the id of the media uploaded by the first call).
I cannot find in the Twitter API documentation a parameter or additional call that would allow one to specify users that appear in the photo.
Does anyone have any insights?
OK, I have finally determined that it can't be done. Twitter simply hasn't opened this feature up to the API (as of 26 days ago).
Here's the Developer support thread on the subject for future reference.
https://twittercommunity.com/t/twitter-new-photo-tagging-feature/13023
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In a nutshell we're trying to allow users to create Foursquare venues in our app but we're having problems.
Detailed problem description:
We're developing an iOS app where our users can create events.
Users register and login with Facebook.
When a user wants to select location for their event they do a text search using Foursquare's API. (Just like when you add a location to your Instagram photo for
example if you're familiar with this).
If the venue exists the user will see it in the list and select it and all is fine.
If however the venue doesn't already exist in Foursquare we've found no way to add it. Compare to Instagram where you
get the option of adding the location directly in-app through
Foursquare's API if the search turns up empty.
Thanks user rckoenes for the API link. We're interpreting the API as it is OK to list venues with "userless access" but in order to make a POST the API "Requires Acting User".
Somehow Instagram seems to manage to allow this without forcing the user to authenticate to Foursquare but we don't see how and we want to avoid having to have this authentication in the app settings(asking them to do this with Facebook is asking enough).
Foursquare API link: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/auth
I hope this clears things up.
Original post:
If our user can't find the right venue in our app (location search powered by foursquare) how can they create it?
This is possible within Instagram but we haven't found how to replicate it.
Is it possible?
We're developing for iOS.
Thankful for any helpful comments :)
Great question. To answer "how to add venues?", rckoenes was indeed correct when he suggested the venues/add endpoint, but you're right to note that this isn't possible unless there's an actively logged in user.
Just to clarify though, Instagram does not add venues to Foursquare when they allow their users to "Create a custom location." When an Instagram user does this, a "text tag" is associated with their photo and this never gets added to Foursquare, nor is it even searchable on Instagram again (the user would have to re-create it every time they want to use this location). Instagram's UI subtly differentiates this by coloring Foursquare venues as blue and allowing users to see more details on the venue while graying out non-Foursquare venues. The reason that these text tags aren't able to be searched again is that doing so would effectively create your own independent location database, which is a violation of our usage policies.
You can consider Instagram's approach if it's appropriate for your situation, but of course the best solution is to allow your users to authenticate through Foursquare, saving their access tokens, and make venue/add requests on behalf of users themselves. This has recently gotten much easier since the release of Foursquare native auth for iOS.
I need to search images from a certain hashtag in twitter to my iOS 6 app. I am trying to code a query that retrieves a minimal size possible response.
So, I tried to use Twitpic, but the response is not good. it's outdated and incomplete. So, I went to the Twitter 1.0 API. The 1.1 is not good because it require user account in Twitter and a lot of my users don´t have it.
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=%23hashtag%20pic.twitter.com&rpp=100&include_entities=true&result_type=recent
Does have a better way to query images from twitter api? I only need the image urls, not the entire entities.
As Twitter and Instagram respond a big JSON, I decided to implement the logic in a server using PHP. My client send the hashtag and the server retrieve the image´s urls and send them this parameters and the next "page_id" from twitter and facebook.
It made the operation faster and more future friendly to my apps, besides avoid some "bad images".
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/
I am an iOS developer and I am writing an app which needs to take statuses from my Facebook page and and display them in my app.
Does the Facebook API support that?
If it does, can anyone give a link for some tutorials or explain how can I make this?
I know that API supports an RSS feed but i don't found how to feed my statuses.
If you're using a Facebook page, you can easily use the graph API to query for posts made by that page. For example, for Starbucks:
http://graph.facebook.com/Starbucks/posts
You can simply load this in your browser to see the format the data comes back in, and all that's needed to access this data is a simple HTTP request. You can replace Starbucks with your Page's ID or username to get your Page's posts. These come back in JSON, which should be fairly easy to handle on your end.
Yes, the Facebook Graph API allows you to access your profile and extract any information you'd like from it.
I need to know as to how to implement oAuth in an iphone application.
I have already gone through lot many posts but none of them shows as to How to retrieve tweets from a user profile (like we access facebook wallposts). I tried using an example named bengottlieb/Twitter-OAuth-iPhone but all it does is show the Login prompt and posts a sample Twit at my Twitter profile.
I need to make an application where
the user can view twits for a particular page (same as accessing the wall post for a Page)
Post tweets that will appear on his profile or if possible then also at the profile page for given ID
I was able to fetch the tweets for a particular id using http://search.twitter.com/search.json?ID but may be due to closing of Basic authentication it does not return to me tweets older than a specific time period.
The Twitter search API is not meant to retrieve the tweets from one particular user, even though it does seem to work (up to a certain point back in time). As far as I know the search API does not need authentication, so you're not in trouble regarding the deprecation of Basic authentication there.
To retrieve the tweets for a user, you need to retrieve their timeline. Be sure to use OAuth authentication, as indeed Basic authentication no longer works now.
Check out http://dev.twitter.com/ for more information. The API is documented quite well. You mention basic authentication, so perhaps you could start with http://dev.twitter.com/pages/basic_to_oauth to get you going?