Can any one suggest me to best C# twitter api for developing application with twitter api?. I want all the advance functionality of twitter in my application.
Twitterizer
Twitterizer is a .NET class library that provides an easy-to-use interface for the Twitter web api. It is written for developers. It's features are easy to discover and follow a consistent design pattern. http://www.twitterizer.net
LINQ to Twitter, if your app is LINQ-enabled.
"LINQ to Twitter is a LINQ Provider for the Twitter micro-blogging service. It uses standard LINQ syntax for queries and includes method calls for changes via the Twitter API."
I haven't used this myself, just found it when browsing and passing it on. It's interesting that if you search with the #linqtotwitter hashtag, you can see all the test tweets, which all start with "Ç".
Kindly follow the below link to get latest API for Twitter
Latest Twitter API
May I humbly suggest TweetSharp. It has full support for the API including the Search API and updates are released as soon as possible to address changes in the twitter API. (for instance, it already supports the upcoming GeoLocation APIs).
It's open source (MIT license), so you can use it free for pretty much anything you want.
Disclosure: I'm a project owner.
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does anybody work with foursquare api and asp.net, do you know some basic tutorial, how to set the environment, do I need some api, how can I make my app to conect to 4sq and ask something. I work with asp.net mvc2, and any clue on this would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
There are a couple of C# libraries available for the foursquare API, you can see the complete list here:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/libraries.html
In terms of tutorials, you can use the interactive query viewer on the foursquare website to get a sense of the data:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/venues.html
(click 'try it now' and it will give you an interactive query console for the api!)
You can also get a walkthrough of how to do OAuth2 authentication on the website too:
https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/oauth.html
For what it's worth, when I was first playing with the API I found it useful to test out all of my queries using cURL, then once you use a library you're already a pro.
Hope that helps?
My question is not about FourSquare API and its functions, but about more simpler details that are not well explained on Foursquare API explanations. Thank you very much in advance if someone wants to help me with this doubts:
Foursquare API is a framework you can use to build applications for mobile devices, above of IOS and Android, so i can imagine that they have API for IOS (Objective-C) and Android (Java), right?
From API Doc: "Be sure to note that although API requests are against api.foursquare.com, OAuth token and authorization requests are against foursquare.com.". Does it mean that if i want to use FourSquare app, the users has to have an account on FourSquare?
From API Doc: "For example, if you write an iPhone application, every user who logs in with their foursquare account will be able to make up to 500 users/* requests and up to 500 venues/* requests, etc." I dont understand this sentence. Does it mean that for example, if you use an API method request like "checkins.add()", this method create two methods? one against api.foursquare.com to monitor the API limit requests, and another to your Web Application Server?
So as a question related to the third one, where do you have to store your database? is it stored on Foursquare cloud database because you are loggin there, or you have to create your own Web Service application with its own SQL database?
From API Doc: "All requests are simple GET or POST requests that return JSON or JSONP respones", so i can imagine that the Web Application Service should understand JSON. Well, my main question is, can i use Ruby on Rails to build the Web Application Service and Web Page frontend? I am seeing that there are some wrapps for RoR designed from third companies, but are not official and doesnt cover all the 2.0 API, just the ones they needed for their services.
If i want to create an app using FourSquare API, what do you advice me to use as a programming language/framework for the Web Service Application? the WSA that has to process the JSON requests and later store them on the database, interaction with users on the WebPage, etc.
i am so sorry if my questions are so simple, but i dont have any other place of this level of expertise.
thank you very very much in advance.
The API is REST/JSON based, which means that any language that can do an HTTP request and parse a string can be used. There are Java and iOS libraries available. But you could use just about anything - curl with bash would be a bit extreme but if that floats your boat...
For some of the APIs (search a venue, for example) you do not necessarily need a FourSquar OAuth user token. For others (like checkin) a FourSquare token is required. For any API calls that require a userid, your users will have to be FourSquare users and "trust" your application with their FourSquare data.
Only requests to FourSquare is counted. So if you do a single call to checkins.add() it counts as one call for the user that is doing the checkin. I wouldn't worry about the limits. As long as you're usage of the API is sensible they will not be a problem. And if they do become a problem and you're doing something extraordinarily cool, the folks at FourSquare might be sympathetic.
You have to create your own web server with your own database to store some information. The OAuth token is one. You probably want to cache venue information here for short periods as well.
Yes, your webapp will need to be able to understand JSON. Ruby has excellent JSON support - look for the json gem.
It is really difficult to suggest a language or framework without knowing what it is that you're trying to do. I wouldn't choose a framework based on the fact that you want to use FourSquare (anything will do) but rather on your experience and the unique features of your application. You mentioned RoR before - that would definitely work.
How can I use read only access to twitter API using OAuth authentication to crawl the twitter data like user timeline, followers, following-list etc. I used to use BasicAuth but now its not supported.
I don't know what platform you're working with, but the "how to connect with Oauth" problem has been solved multiple times on just about every platform. Rather than writing this code yourself (and giving yourself a thousand headaches), you may be better served finding one of the many Twitter libraries out there that already support OAuth.
Is there a .NET OAuth library specifically designed to work against Twitter? Maybe even something to support MVC? A base controller maybe.....
I am currently using DotNetOpenAuth; it works well enough but seems overkill, in some places too complex and based on documentation more focused on openid.
Yes, several in fact. LinqToTwitter and TweetSharp are both .NET free libraries for calling into Twitter. DotNetOpenAuth has a longer history in OpenID than OAuth, but OAuth is very much a first class scenario for DotNetOpenAuth. That said, DotNetOpenAuth is strictly a protocol-level library, so higher-level libraries make calling Twitter much easier and I would highly recommend one of those.
I want to put the Twitter service on my server and customize it for my purpose. I have no idea how it works.
My goal is to communicate to your own Twitter server rather than the original twitter server and serve my purpose.
You should check out: StatusNet. It is an open source micro blogging platform. From their site, you can download the source and deploy it on your own server. Once you have it installed you can customize it to your liking.
Twitter isn't an Open Source project - they don't provide their server code.
From my experience at another company deploying very widely distributed systems, the chances are there's a bucket-load of infrastructure you'd need to get running first - complete overkill for a single-server solution, but vital for a global service with many millions of users. In other words, even if Twitter did provide their code, it probably wouldn't be an appropriate solution for your situation.
The actual Twitter (twitter.com) service is proprietary, you can't run it yourself.
There are plenty of open source twitter clones out there. The more general name is "microblogging". Pinax for example has basic microblogging. Try searching google for 'open source microblogging' for other projects.
I don't believe the Twitter platform is freely available to the general public. If you want to make your own "Twitter server", you're going to have to clone the service yourself.
You can't run Twitter on your own server, but you can write your own application that talks to Twitter through Twitter's API.
It all depends on what you mean by "customizing" Twitter. There are many applications like Twitpic and TweetDeck that are built "on top of" Twitter. They add their own functionality while leaving Twitter to do the "heavy lifting".
For example, I have written a personal project for moderating a stream of tweets. This application runs on my local server, but it gets its data by querying Twitter's API.
There are two main advantages to extending rather than rebuilding Twitter:
It takes a lot less effort because you can reuse all the basic functions of Twitter
You can take advantage of Twitter's huge user base. Even if you succeeded in cloning Twitter, it would be far less interesting than the original because Twitter works by strength of numbers.
You could use Wordpress and get the twitter developer add in then get a api code from them and there users can use your site and vice versa also apps for twitter will work for your site.
Wow. That's a highly ambitious request that you have there. Twitter isn't like Wordpress, there's no .org version that can be downloaded and run locally. Twitter is a highly scalable service that is designed to run on large scale servers.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news to you on this.