The goal here is to be able to "tweet" a link of the format
www.example.com/page.aspx#1, and get the number of "tweets" for that link... Basically, what the out-of-the-box Twitter button does for any normal link.
Reason for this is because the page displays different content based on the ID after the #, so there is a need to count which specific item was "tweeted" and how many times.
I tried passing that URL to the Twitter service to get the count (http://urls.api.twitter.com/1/urls/count.json?url=), but the JSON object I get back only has
{"count":0,"url":"www.example.com/page.aspx/"}.
The link for the Twitter button looks like this (done in JavaScript)
var twtLink = 'http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url='+encodeURIComponent(twtUrl)+'&counturl='+encodeURIComponent(twtUrl);
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Twitter actually re-interrupts all URL's with their own custom t.co wrapper. This is good news for your use case. You can use these unique t.co links with the counter API.
If you include the attribute &include_entities=1 to the end of some Twitter REST API calls you get back expanded info including the URL's in the tweets. You will see the original URL as well as the shortened URL version. Pass the shortened URL version into the counter API.
Related
Twitter has recently implemented an automatic way of quoting tweets. It basically extracts an url from a tweet and shows it embedded within your tweet.
My problem is: how do I 'retweet with a comment' without showing the original tweet URL via API?
Retweeting from the website makes the RT look like this .
But when I'm manually prepending a tweet url to my tweet, it looks like this .
notice the literal url.
your tweet has a quoted_status, just put the tweet url as attachment_url args, e.g.
client.update('cool', attachment_url: 'https://twitter.com/emorima/status/1061581991798169600')
it's ruby code with twitter gem
My understanding is that you are achieving the closest solution that Twitter API offers. This thread talks about doing the following:
do a status update, with the 'status' field containing the text of the original tweet, followed by the link to the original tweet. The 'in_reply_to_status_id' field should not be set. This action does not result in the "retweet count" being increased.
do a retweet, which will increase the retweet count.
Based on lfx_cool's answer, I was able to achieve it with this:
statuses/update
post('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/update.json', {
status:'Some comment', attachment_url:`https://twitter.com/${user.screen_name}/status/${id_str}`,
});
When I make an authorized call for Youtube videos, I get all the tags/keywords in the feed.
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads?alt=jsonc&v=2
However, if I want to filter this result by a single keyword/category, the tags are not returned by the API. Example, I want to reduce the number of videos in the feed by tag "English"/"French".
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads/-/English?alt=jsonc&v=2
Is this expected behavior or a bug?
It's expected behavior; this blog post explains how your second request is going against the search index, which will never return keywords/tags in the response.
I want to make a simple Twitter API get using JSON. The idea is to get only the posts from a known corporation (say BigCorporation) sent to the main corporation (#BigCorporation). The idea is to just get the main annoncements and filter out anytime the BigCoporation answer a question from a follower (i.e. BigCoporation tweets: #someguy we are anwering your question)
So Tweets from:BigCoporation with the #BigCorporation
I came up with this API get but I seem to get both #BigCorporation or from:BigCorporation tweets. I want only the Tweets that are #BigCorp AND from:BigCorp
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=#BigCorporation&q=from:BigCorporation&result_type=mixed
Your search query is malformed.
It should be:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=#edent%20from:edent&result_type=mixed
That will show you all the tweets I have sent which contains the string "#edent"
You can use this URL :
https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=BigCorporation&exclude_replies=true
The REST method GET https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json returns the most recent tweets (20 by default) of a user whose username (here BigCorporation) is in the parameter screen_name. When set to true (or t or 1), the exclude_replies parameter excludes the tweets that you want to avoid ("#someguy we are anwering your question").
You can visit this page on the Twitter API website for further details.
I have a share button on my site.
But I need to share link with parameters, and each time parameters will be different (I need to track user who is sharing, etc.)
For example need to share link like http://mySite.com/page?userId=111&someParam=222
I can share this well, but how can I force count to work correct?
if I set
data-url="http://mySite.com/page?userId=111&someParam=222"
data-counturl="http://mySite.com/page/"
I am getting count 0 always. How to get this work?
From http://dev.twitter.com/pages/tweet_button,
"The count box shows how many times the URL has been Tweeted."
Your problem is you simply have the url and counturl mixed up. Change url to the short one, for display purposes - that's the one people will see. Use the counturl for the one with all the parameters, to ensure they go to the right place with the parameters intact.
I suspect the reason your count kept showing zero tweets is because you have a different (unique) url as your primary url each time it is tweeted, so each tweet is the first time that url (including its parameters) was shared.
Twitter now lets you send the url through data attributes. This works perfectly for me and should work for you out of the box!
The button (check out data-url):
Tweet
The twitter javascript snippet (from https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button)
<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");</script>
How would I go about displaying tweets that contain a certain hashtag using the Twitter API? Thanks
I'd also like to know if there is a way to get all tweets from a certain hashtag in a separate file, also the ones that don't show up in your feed anymore. I suppose that's what the earlier question was about, too.
This answer was written in 2010. The API it uses has since been retired. It is kept for historical interest only.
Search for it.
Make sure include_entities is set to true to get hashtag results. See Tweet Entities
Returns 5 mixed results with Twitter.com user IDs plus entities for the term "blue angels":
GET http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=blue%20angels&rpp=5&include_entities=true&with_twitter_user_id=true&result_type=mixed
UPDATE for v1.1:
Rather than giving q="search_string" give it q="hashtag" in URL encoded form to return results with HASHTAG ONLY. So your query would become:
GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23freebandnames
%23 is URL encoded form of #. Try the link out in your browser and it should work.
You can optimize the query by adding since_id and max_id parameters detailed here. Hope this helps !
Note: Search API is now a OAUTH authenticated call, so please include your access_tokens to the above call
Updated
Twitter Search doc link:
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/search/api-reference/get-search-tweets.html
The answer here worked better for me as it isolates the search on the hashtag, not just returning results that contain the search string. In the answer above you would still need to parse the JSON response to see if the entities.hashtags array is not empty.