Twitter 4j - Get tweets by user ID - Processing - twitter

Question

There seems to be many different tutorials and examples out there to allow for tweets to be pulled into Processing from one specific user.
And yet I'm still having problems getting any code to work. I have managed to get tweets by searching with hashtags, so the twitter4j library (latest) is working within Processing (also latest software). I still a complete coding novice...
I've found the following code to do exactly what I need, but unfortunately it isn't complete, where I'm assuming you need to declare your Consumer Keys and Access tokens... But I've no idea how to do this with this code. Is this something that someone is able to provide and explain?
Essentially, I need the full sketch... Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Code from elsewhere:
final Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
twitter.setOAuthConsumer(CONSUMER_KEY, CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET);
AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken(TWITTER_TOKEN,
TWITTER_TOKEN_SECRET);
twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);
try {
Status status = twitter.showStatus(Long.parseLong(tweetID));
if (status == null) { //
// don't know if needed - T4J docs are very bad
} else {
System.out.println("#" + status.getUser().getScreenName()
+ " - " + status.getText());
}
} catch (TwitterException e) {
System.err.print("Failed to search tweets: " + e.getMessage());
// e.printStackTrace();
// DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THROWN WHEN ID IS INVALID
}
EDIT: This is how I've added the consumer/access keys - is this right?
twitter.setOAuthConsumer("MyConsumerKey", "MyConsumerSecret");
AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken("MyAccessToken", "MyAccessTokenSecret");
twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);
EDIT2: This is what I have now to get the User's tweets. But produced the error: 'cannot convert from ResponseList to Status'
String user="USER ID";
final Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
twitter.setOAuthConsumer("MY CONSUMER KEY", "MY CONSUMER KEY SECRET");
AccessToken accessToken = new AccessToken("MY TWITTER TOKEN", "MY TWITTER TOKEN SECRET");
twitter.setOAuthAccessToken(accessToken);
try {
Status status = twitter.getUserTimeline(user);
if (status == null) { //
// don't know if needed - T4J docs are very bad
} else {
System.out.println("#" + status.getUser().getScreenName()
+ " - " + status.getText());
}
} catch (TwitterException e) {
System.err.print("Failed to search tweets: " + e.getMessage());
// e.printStackTrace();
// DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THROWN WHEN ID IS INVALID
}

Answer 1

you need first to create a twitter app, to do so go to https://apps.twitter.com/, from there you can get all the infos needed to get your credentials.
in your code just replace the 'CONSUMER_KEY','CONSUMER_KEY_SECRET','Access Token','Access Token Secret' by the credentials.
ConfigurationBuilder cb = new ConfigurationBuilder();
cb.setDebugEnabled(true)
.setOAuthConsumerKey("XXXXX")
.setOAuthConsumerSecret("XXXXXX")
.setOAuthAccessToken("XXXX-XXXXX")
.setOAuthAccessTokenSecret("XXXXXXX");
hope this help!