I am new in Twitter API. I have a requirement like I have to pull the information of an authenticated twitter user to know the number of followers. I can do this using REST API but I have a problem here. So I have taken the way to use Twitter User Streams.
I am not able to integrate this functionality in the site. I am using twitter console( https://dev.twitter.com/console ). But there I am not able to get any kind of result, it actually hangs/shows gateway timeout. And that's for I am not able to configure that how to write the code for this or how to use this in site. I am not passing any kind of parameters.
So, any body can please help in this would be very grateful( a clean sample code for this or any link where to get the good documentation ). I have already checked with twitter dev documentations.
Thanks in advance :)
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I wish to get tweets with a keyword. But There is no result with any keyword.
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=summer
How to get results with Twitter Search API?
Version 1 of the twitter API has been deprecated and is being removed. Not sure how you can miss the giant warnings on the twitter dev site ;) This means simple code like the above will not work any more.
So, you now need to make authenticated requests (OAuth) using the 1.1 API, and it's nowhere near as simple as just doing a (in PHP) file_get_contents(http://search.twitter.com/ ...).
I couldn't see any server-side languages you use from your profile, but I wrote a lengthy post explaining the issue (with pictures) and how to use a php library to perform authenticated requests.
The question is simply the title.
Please don't tell me to go for a Twitter Data reseller like Gnip or Datasift as they're so expensive.
Thank you.
Run more than one twitter stream, there is no other way around to solve this issue. For running multiple streamer basically you need a dedicated twitter user, ip address and registered application for each streamer.
I have this project that's based on a Twitter Bot. NOT an abusive or spammer bot. Just a robot that will reply with information about my system when it's mentioned.
The thing is: I expect to have about 3000 mentions/hour. Which means I have to send about 3000 replies/hour.
I know Twitter API calls are limited to 350/h when the app is authenticated and 150/h when it's not. But I've also read about it being 1000/h somewhere in the Twitter Discussion boards.
Anyway, how can I deal with having to send so many replies/hour?
I thought about creating multiple Twitter accounts and delegating some of the replies to them in order to being able to reply to all of them, but I do realize it's not a pretty solution.
Does anyone have a better idea?
Your best bet is to use Streaming.
Connecting
API Params (JSON)
Basically, you open up a connection with their server with your credentials and instead of reading the return stream and closing, you just keep reading. When you want to make a request, you just send another header or something.
For a web-application I am writing (Rails) I am looking for ways to post back publick mentions about that post. Mentions on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and so on.
Starting with Twitter, I am looking for a way to get these tweets back into the application. Obviously I could simply monitor the twitter firehose (through their search, most probably) for a certain url (the url of the post), if found, extract that and place that tweet as new comment to the post. But this requires me to invent something similar for each and every social network.
Whereas there is a generic protocol for this: Salmon, allowing services to push such comments (tweets mentioning your url) through PubSubHubbub (PSH).
I did not find any mention of this on the Twitter API itself; they are not using PSH or Salmon (yet) it seems.
But maybe there are thirdpartis that do? Know any? Are there other projects that wrap around Twitters firehose and allow you to approach Twitter as if it is a Salmon-speaking pubsubhubbub? And What about Reddit, or Facebook?
The Twitter API TOS explicitly forbids the re-distribution of tweets via APIs*, except for Twitter's partners. These are DataSift and Gnip - but they don't do what you are looking for.
Your best option would be to simply monitor the filterhose.
* Actually, it's allowed to share IDs, but those are pretty useless since you have to look them up manually.
i would like to post a message on facebook wall (standard friend/group's wall) not the Apps. using delphi, i could log-in but i dont know how to post a message on it. any suggestion?
I have never used Delphi so im not sure about the language structure
but facebook API is basically HTTP Requests, you should be able to build a class that upon instanation you would authorize your app and then have a set of methods that publish data via HTTPRequest and validate the response
Heres something you may wish to look at:
Facebook emailer in delphi via CakeMail: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=17522112271
And how to post via HTTP:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post
It is possible.
If you're able to login you can use a sniffer to take a look for the details of how it is accomplished by Facebook itself when you do it withing a browser (kind of reverse engineering). Wireshark is the best tool for me.
Look and take your time to understand what's going on between your browser and the servers when you post messages to your friend's wall.
Once you understand the details, you can mimic the exact same behavior from your Delphi program to get the same results, for example with the TidHTTP or TidTCP components.
Facebook is AJAX intensive: series of HTTP GET/POST operations without full page refreshes.
Don't forget you're mimicking a undocumented and internal communication mechanism. Facebook or any other target site may change it's internal's and broke your program compatibility anytime.
Remember this kind of program may be prohibited... read the facebook agreement's for further details.
delphibook is a Delphi library to support Facebook applications.
Two possible links that may provide some guidance? They are not in delphi, but I assume the api would be similar to javascript/php ?
http://daipratt.co.uk/using-fb-api-to-make-a-full-post-to-a-users-wall/
http://blog.theunical.com/facebook-integration/5-steps-to-publish-on-a-facebook-wall-using-php/