Does anyone know on how to extract Twitter user's bio and collect user following in twitter; Are there any tools for this?
if you want to get the description of the user, twetts, followers, etc, firts: you need create a twitter app, then you have to consume the REST SERVICE from twitter ... the official info: link. for this you can use (for example) php,java, c# or vb.net(etc) with OAUTH to consume data from twitter. You can review this topic to guide you a little So you want to use the Twitter v1.1 API? Greetings
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Its been a while since i last used the twitter api, Using Javscript, I would like to be able to search any random twitter users feed.
On the page I would enter there Twitter username and the app would go and find the users data returned as JSON.
I'm not after the code, I would just like to know what is the best API to use for this?
Do I just need the REST API, I assume this:
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public/search
Also, authentication do I need to authenticate my app? how should I do that if its needed?
thanks.
If you want all of my tweets (#edent) you will need to use the User Timeline API
For example:
https://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/statuses/user_timeline?screen_name=edent
Yes, you will need your app to be authenticated. You will need to use OAuth
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.
I'm looking to integrate a twitter login into my site. I've used the developer link for FB to see what data can be collected. I'd like to know what data I can retrieve from twitter once a user logs in with twitter from my site?
A full list of API endpoints is available here on the Twitter dev site.
account/verify_credentials would be the most basic one to start with as it is information about the authenticated user.
I want to use Twitter API so my program can post some tweets. To use it I have to register application in dev-center and get some parameters like "Consumer key", "Consumer secret" etc. Then I can use either REST API, or some libraries like twitter4j - OK, that's simple.
But the question is: who will be the "author" of such tweets? Or, in other words, where can I find them after posting? Will they be posted by application or by some user? I can't really figure out how particular user binds to registered API-application... Or how can I specify ("log-in") user to post tweet on behalf of?
The "author" is always going to be the authenticating user. From the Twitter API documentation for statuses/update:
Updates the authenticating user's current status, also known as tweeting.
To answer your other question about authenticating with another user's username/password, it is possible but you need to get permission from Twitter. You also still need to use OAuth. Check out the Twitter API OAuth documentation.
You need to have a twitter account to register your application. So your account will be the author of your posts.
anyone knows if it is possible to do registration via twitter just like facebook register (http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/registration/)?
it is not login via twitter. i need to store some basic information from the twitter user, eg, name and email, and then request user to choose their own username and password for my site.
Thanks!
Twitter doesn't have this functionality at all , they have #anywhere for integration for some Twitter features on your website. That's the closest there is to this. What you can do is register an account with the information you gather from an authenticating user, but the development of this would be up to you. There are no boxed up solutions right now from Twitter. There may be something third party but I'm not aware of any.
It's also "against the rules"
You may not use Twitter Content or other data collected from end users
of your Client to create or maintain a separate status update or
social network database or service.
https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms