iOS twitter API loadings more than 20 followers/following/tweets - ios

Question

I have a simple twitter client that I am using to display a users tweets, followers, and following.
For some reason the count parameter for user tweets is being ignored and it is always loading only 20 results.
Here is the code:
- (void)getUserTweets {
// 1. Create a variable for twitter
NSURL *feedURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json"];
// 2. Get AppDelegate reference
AppDelegate *appDelegate =[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
// 3. Create NSDictionary for the TWR parameters
NSDictionary *params = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: self.usernameToLoad, #"screen_name", #"true", #"include_user_entities", #"100", #"count", nil];
// 4. Create TWRequest, with parameters, URL & specify GET method
//TWRequest *twitterFeed = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:feedURL parameters:parameters requestMethod:TWRequestMethodGET];
SLRequest *twitterFeed = [SLRequest requestForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter requestMethod:SLRequestMethodGET URL:feedURL parameters:params];
// 5. Specify twitter request's account to our app delegate's
twitterFeed.account = appDelegate.userAccount;
// Making the request
[twitterFeed performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
// Check if we reached the reate limit
if ([urlResponse statusCode] == 429) {
NSLog(#"Rate limit reached");
return;
}
// Check if there was an error
if (error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error.localizedDescription);
return;
}
// Check if there is some response data
if (responseData) {
NSError *error = nil;
self.userTweets = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error:&error];
}
});
}];
}
This will always return only 20 results, even if I set the count to something low like 1 or 2. Am I doing something wrong in defining my parameters?
Also, I am trying to load the users followers and following but I want to load a total of 200 if each, but again it is only loading 20.
From what the twitter API reads, It supplies automatic pagination and using the cursor parameter I can iterate through to load all of the data I want.
I am having a hard time figuring out exactly how this works. Here is my code for following (followers is identical with the exception of it calling a different API string)
- (void)getFriends {
// 1. Create a variable for twitter
NSURL *feedURL = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://api.twitter.com/1.1/friends/list.json"];
// 2. Get AppDelegate reference
AppDelegate *appDelegate =[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
// 3. Create NSDictionary for the TWR parameters
NSDictionary *parameters = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: self.usernameToLoad, #"screen_name", #"true", #"include_user_entities", nil];
// 4. Create TWRequest, with parameters, URL & specify GET method
//TWRequest *twitterFeed = [[TWRequest alloc] initWithURL:feedURL parameters:parameters requestMethod:TWRequestMethodGET];
SLRequest *twitterFeed = [SLRequest requestForServiceType:SLServiceTypeTwitter requestMethod:SLRequestMethodGET URL:feedURL parameters:parameters];
// 5. Specify twitter request's account to our app delegate's
twitterFeed.account = appDelegate.userAccount;
// Making the request
[twitterFeed performRequestWithHandler:^(NSData *responseData, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error) {
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
// Check if we reached the reate limit
if ([urlResponse statusCode] == 429) {
NSLog(#"Rate limit reached");
return;
}
// Check if there was an error
if (error) {
NSLog(#"Error: %#", error.localizedDescription);
return;
}
// Check if there is some response data
if (responseData) {
NSError *error = nil;
NSDictionary *TWData = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData options:NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves error:&error];
self.userFriends = [TWData objectForKey:#"users"];
}
});
}];
}
I am not sure how to properly loop through because the twitter api returns the cursor value I need to go to the next data.
Any help would be great, I might just be missing some logic I can't quite put my finger on.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Results are given in multiple "pages" of results can be navigated through using the next_cursor value in subsequent requests.
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/misc/cursoring

Answer 2

Fine, I too had the same problem in paging the tweet feeds, It never used to update "max_id" parameter, because its value was "NSNumber", Then i changed to to NSString then it worked perfectly fine for me, Cross check once again weather any objects other than NSString are used in the request