I am trying to develop an app which requires to compose a tweet. I can not figure out how to do the auto complete for twitter mention. For example, when users type "#a", the app needs to search all his friends starting with "a". I don't know which twitter api I can search/query to have the list of friends starting with specific characters. I have been going though the twitter api but still no clue. I saw some twitter clients have this feature so it should be doable..
Many thanks in advance.
James
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Question, I haven't worked with API's too much but I'm building an app and I was curious to know if this idea would be possible. Would it be possible for a user to sign up on my site and pull that user's tweet's as a way to display the tweet on my website? Thanks in Advance.
I am following a tutorial for integrating Facebook in an app. However, it seems that when Facebook upgraded to V2.0 of their graph, they stopped allowing imports of contacts unless the contact has the App installed.
Does anyone know if there is any workaround to this? The options available as described in these answers a year ago all seemed essentially inadequate for a commercial app. But wondering if there have been any changes in the status quo so that you can import Facebook contacts.
(Facebook remains super aggressive itself about getting contacts from iPhone, google, etc.)
Many thanks for any suggestions.
You can follow the Facebook SDK Graph API for getting contacts .
Graph API Friends List
Unfortunately, nothing has changed: you still can get only the contacts that are using your app AND that gave to your app the user_friends permission.
Please see this other question with more details.
I am currently building an app where they require all their users to be able to view their feeds only.
I looked at a lot of tutorials online which talk about the new api v1.1 of twitter and now authentication is required at all times.
I see a lot of examples and even successfully followed several of them like
http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-101-integrate-twitter-and-facebook-sharing-in-ios-6/
I even saw a tutorial posted on the twitter dev page.Following all of these focused on a few key elements
Using ACAccount to retrieve the account settings of the current user
Using the SLRequest to encapsulate the HTTP request made to the twitter api
Retrieving the data in JSON format, parsing it and presenting it to the user
Well my question is, I do not want user specific feeds. It's like a company updates their twitter regularly, users using the app should get feeds regarding the company. So I was wondering if there was a way, the app provides some default or hard coded authentication information ?
Is there some sort of tutorial, library or anything out there to help me move in the correct direction ?
Thank You for your time and help.
Your going to want to implement the following API call to get that information:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/user_timeline
Once your application is authorized you can make a call to,
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/MorleyGaelsGAA.json
That should give you the information you're looking for.
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 currently have a bunch of apps that go and make simple anonymous calls to the twitter API, and grab several differing timelines. Obviously, twitter is changing things up with 1.1, and is demanding authenticated calls using oauth. Does that mean each of my users need a token (their own account) to do call, or do I need one app token for all of them? Should I be using the twitter api included with iOS 5? Note: These are not the user's timeline...just several news feeds on twitter. Am a bit confused. Any pointers would be appreciated.
This is a good question, I struggled with this myself.
You can use Twitter API client via PHP and then json_encode the user timeline you want and parse it. This is not the best practice, but is a work around I had to do for an app on which I wanted to only display tweets no other action was need, like getting links, retweets, etc.
hope this serves.