Re: Fetching user_timeline on twitter
I am also using APi to develop my application. I am facing a problem with the protected user. If user protect their updates on the Twiiter Site. I am unable to get the tweets of that person. Is there any way to get that. Second i can't receive any notification that other person has send you a request to foolow yon. Thanks, Deepak On Feb 3, 10:31 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Naveen, Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- protected API method requires credentials for authentication. Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- less. Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? @dougw On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding fetching another user's timeline... 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for protected updates, then does that mean that a third party website that purports to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user specific credential on a long term basis? 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other friend networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token on a long-term basis? Naveen
How can I write a code to authenticate user to twitter.com?
Hi, I knew my question would sound basic, silly but I don't know how to authenticate a user using javascript. Could anyone help me, please? I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much,
PHP / Curl API failures
Hi, On Sunday (1 Feb 2009) I embedded the following code in my website (with appropraite variables set correctly): $url = 'http://twitter.com/statuses/ update.json'; $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, status= $message); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username: $password); $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); curl_close($curl_handle); Which worked fine up until Monday morning (02 Feb 2009, 10:00 GMT ish). It then failed for about 24 hours. I started debugging it last night and my PHP script was not getting any status code back on the curl_exe line. Today (3 Feb) at about 08:00 it started working again without me changing anything! I post about 10 message an hour (no more!) so I shouldn't reach any limits I guess. Can anyone suggest what is going on here ? Thanks DoubleDutch
Re: API problems?
Seems to be working now. It was a DNS issue on my shared hosting server as I was unable to ping twitter.com. Not sure if the server is on OpenDNS though. On Feb 2, 10:59 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Same here, for about ten hours I havent been able to curl updates to twitter - getting timelines from twitter seems ok though. With curl itself on this end, I'm getting normal response. Do you receive a specific error? -- personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- We're Starfleet officers ... weird is just part of the job. -- ST: Voyager -
Re: Test Method Failing
Thanks, Alex! bill On Feb 2, 4:52 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Yes, should be fixed today. On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:42, bill[y] vir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, Was a bug filed for this? Couldn't seem to find it ... http://twitter.com/help/test.xmlstill moved ... Any plans to fix it? thanks! bill On Jan 16, 6:58 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Ah. Our new support site may have clobbered this URL. Please file an issue here:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/entry. On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 15:45, Eric Blair eric.s.bl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 301 error when Icallthetestmethod. I was usingtest as a check to see if Twitter was up before doing the bulk of my calls, so this threw my scripts for a bit of a loop. http://twitter.com/help/test.xml returns HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:44:50 GMT Server: Apache Location:http://help.twitter.com/ Cache-Control: max-age=300 Expires: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:49:50 GMT Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 232 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN htmlhead title301 Moved Permanently/title /headbody h1Moved Permanently/h1 pThe document has moved a href=http://help.twitter.com/;here/ a./p /body/html --Eric -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
RE: Fetching user_timeline on twitter
how can i star earning as i am new to this wolrl. pronab e.mai- pronab...@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 05:54:32 -0800 Subject: Re: Fetching user_timeline on twitter From: igu...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hi Deepak, You will have to 1) have the credentials of a user that follows a user that has protected updates (friends_timeline) or 2) have the credentials of the protected user (user_timeline) to get access to their updates. As for your second question, unfortunately no, there is no way to receive notification progamatically that a user has requested to follow you. Is this a deal killer to you? If you can better explain what you are trying to do, I can help you find a workaround. @dougw On Feb 3, 2:32 am, Deepak hrdeepa...@gmail.com wrote: I am also using APi to develop my application. I am facing a problem with the protected user. If user protect their updates on the Twiiter Site. I am unable to get the tweets of that person. Is there any way to get that. Second i can't receive any notification that other person has send you a request to foolow yon. Thanks, Deepak On Feb 3, 10:31 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote:Naveen, Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- protected API method requires credentials for authentication. Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- less.Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it?@dougwOn Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regardingfetching another user's timeline... 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for protectedupdates, then does that mean that a third party website that purportsto fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and passwordto repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth whilefetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or isthere a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a userspecific credential on a long term basis? 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for otherfriend networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific tokenon a long-term basis? Naveen _ Find a better job. We have plenty. Visit MSN Jobs http://www.in.msn.com/jobs
Re: How can I write a code to authenticate user to twitter.com?
Search google for cross domain posting using hidden iframes. On Feb 3, 3:20 pm, pronab bose pronab...@hotmail.com wrote: me too having the same problen ,how can i write a code to authenticate user to twitter.com? FROM : pronab...@hotmai.com Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 00:02:26 -0800 Subject: How can I write a code to authenticate user to twitter.com? From: mike.shin...@gmail.com To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Hi, I knew my question would sound basic, silly but I don't know how to authenticate a user using javascript. Could anyone help me, please? I would really appreciate it. Thank you very much, _ Plug in to the MSN Tech channel for a full update on the latest gizmos that made an impact.http://computing.in.msn.com/
Re: Help with a twitter widget
Thank you so much chad. Now I only have one problem. I get a syntax
error at line 14 where this_bg_color is.
On 2 Feb, 21:52, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote:
i have added some lines (marked by //new) that should accomplish what you
want.
function twitterCallback2(obj) {
var twitters = obj;
var statusHTML = ;
var username = ;
var name = ; //new
var bg_arr = []; //new
bg_arr.push(#ddd); //new
bg_arr.push(#bbb); //new
for (var i=0; itwitters.length; i++){
var this_bg_color = bg_arr[i % 2]; //new
username = twitters[i].user.screen_name
name = twitters[i].user.name //new
statusHTML += ('lispan style=background:' +
this_bg_color + ';'+ name + ' said: ' + twitters[i].text+'/span
a
target=_blank style=font-size:85% href=http://
twitter.com/'+username+'/statuses/'+twitters[i].id+''+relative_time
(twitters[i].created_at)+'/a/li') //new
}
document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML =
statusHTML;
}
-Chad
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Plizzo - MacThemes
plizzo.t...@gmail.com wrote:
function twitterCallback2(obj) {
var twitters = obj;
var statusHTML = ;
var username = ;
for (var i=0; itwitters.length; i++){
username = twitters[i].user.screen_name
statusHTML += ('lispan'+twitters[i].text+'/span a
target=_blank style=font-size:85% href=http://
twitter.com/'+username+'/statuses/'+twitters[i].id+''+relative_time
(twitters[i].created_at)+'/a/li')
}
document.getElementById('twitter_update_list').innerHTML =
statusHTML;
}
function relative_time(time_value) {
var values = time_value.split( );
time_value = values[1] + + values[2] + , + values[5] + +
values[3];
var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
var relative_to = (arguments.length 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date
();
var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);
if (delta 60) {
return 'less than a minute ago';
} else if(delta 120) {
return 'about a minute ago';
} else if(delta (60*60)) {
return (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
} else if(delta (120*60)) {
return 'about an hour ago';
} else if(delta (24*60*60)) {
return 'about ' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours
ago';
} else if(delta (48*60*60)) {
return '1 day ago';
} else {
return (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
}
}
I have this code which I use to fetch the friends_timeline. I want to
add so that you can see who sent the tweet like Matt said: and also
I want to have backgrounds alternating between every post. Like having
first one light grey background and the second tweet having a darker
one. Is this possible, I would require help with this as I have been
tinkering with it for days. Any help is appreciated
Regards // Jonathan
Re: Fetching user_timeline on twitter
Hi Deepak, You will have to 1) have the credentials of a user that follows a user that has protected updates (friends_timeline) or 2) have the credentials of the protected user (user_timeline) to get access to their updates. As for your second question, unfortunately no, there is no way to receive notification progamatically that a user has requested to follow you. Is this a deal killer to you? If you can better explain what you are trying to do, I can help you find a workaround. @dougw On Feb 3, 2:32 am, Deepak hrdeepa...@gmail.com wrote: I am also using APi to develop my application. I am facing a problem with the protected user. If user protect their updates on the Twiiter Site. I am unable to get the tweets of that person. Is there any way to get that. Second i can't receive any notification that other person has send you a request to foolow yon. Thanks, Deepak On Feb 3, 10:31 am, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Naveen, Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- protected API method requires credentials for authentication. Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- less. Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? @dougw On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding fetching another user's timeline... 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for protected updates, then does that mean that a third party website that purports to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user specific credential on a long term basis? 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other friend networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token on a long-term basis? Naveen
New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Fetching user_timeline on twitter
Hi Doug, The second part of your response was very encouraging so I just wanted to confirm it again :-) Are you saying Yes to how twitter's Oauth implementation will work? or are you saying It would be nice to be able to do it and therefore hope that twitter would do so? If it is the former, can you shed some light on how a third party website will be able to get long term user-specific credentials from twitter? Best and thnx Naveen On Feb 2, 9:31 pm, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Naveen, Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- protected API method requires credentials for authentication. Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- less. Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? @dougw On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding fetching another user's timeline... 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for protected updates, then does that mean that a third party website that purports to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user specific credential on a long term basis? 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other friend networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token on a long-term basis? Naveen- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Great ! Thanks a lot. Small details, when no credential is provided, the follower method correctly return 'could not authenticate you' while the friends method return a HTML error page. Sylvain Alex Payne wrote: Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup
Hi All, With many thanks to Noah Everett (the TwitPic dude) for allowing the use of TwitPic thumbnails, I have created TwitPicGrid at http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid as a mashup. Watch new TwitPics arrive as they are tweeted, or search for keywords associated with the pics. Could be interesting for real-time pics of events (Apple keynote, Inaguration (oops, too late), Steven Fry being trapped in an elevator, etc...), or just searching for everyone's cat. Feedback welcome. Enjoy. -Chad
Re: TwitPicGrid = TwitPic + TweetGrid mashup
harper, didn't you have something like this with lj photos? __ mk2dev.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 19:36, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, With many thanks to Noah Everett (the TwitPic dude) for allowing the use of TwitPic thumbnails, I have created TwitPicGrid at http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid as a mashup. Watch new TwitPics arrive as they are tweeted, or search for keywords associated with the pics. Could be interesting for real-time pics of events (Apple keynote, Inaguration (oops, too late), Steven Fry being trapped in an elevator, etc...), or just searching for everyone's cat. Feedback welcome. Enjoy. -Chad
Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Mmmh, I may have spoken a little too soon ... * As I mentionned, I must provide a login / password to do the call * Whatever id/screen_name I ask for, I always get MY list of friend / follower and not the one I asked. Is anybody getting this ?
Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
hey! awesome news. I'm reworking my code to use user IDs so this will help a lot. thanks much. E On Feb 3, 5:01 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: Fetching user_timeline on twitter
Naveen, Authentication for third-party services will be handled and serviced on Twitter by the user on twitter.com. A user will grant permission to applications to access and edit a specified subset of their account artifacts. Therefore, if a user wants to allow your third-party service long-term access to their data, he would simply give you permission on Twitter. The about OAuth section here: http://oauth.net/about for more understanding has a great high-level analogy. @dougw On Feb 3, 1:52 pm, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Doug, The second part of your response was very encouraging so I just wanted to confirm it again :-) Are you saying Yes to how twitter's Oauth implementation will work? or are you saying It would be nice to be able to do it and therefore hope that twitter would do so? If it is the former, can you shed some light on how a third party website will be able to get long term user-specific credentials from twitter? Best and thnx Naveen On Feb 2, 9:31 pm, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Naveen, Storing user credentials is never ideal but with basic auth, applications that want to make occasional calls to the API must retain a local copy of the credentials. Each request to a credential- protected API method requires credentials for authentication. Obviously this is not ideal, but the current API model is session- less. Your second question is yes. It will be nice, won't it? @dougw On Feb 2, 11:52 am, Naveen naveen.s.sax...@gmail.com wrote: I have some basic questions (I am still learning this world) regarding fetching another user's timeline... 1. If basic authentication is a must to get the feed for protected updates, then does that mean that a third party website that purports to fetch a user's timeline needs to store the user's id and password to repeatedly provide these parameters as part of basic auth while fetching the timeline? Is that what sites such as friendfeed do? Or is there a way to perform a one time login and then somehow use a user specific credential on a long term basis? 2. When twitter moves to using oauth, will there be a way for other friend networks to continuously be able to fetch a twitter user's feed after first time Oauth based authorization by using the user specific token on a long-term basis? Naveen- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
Re: [twitter-api-announce] New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Well done Alex. While the 20k requests/hr API limit will still limit the number of users we are able to have as we grow larger down the road, this will make a huge difference for us and let us keep growing for much longer. Also, I like that this encourages apps not to rely on the username of a person as the unique identifier, as the username can change at any time - I've noticed that most apps are relying on the username and not user id. Working to get this in place ASAP. Thanks, Jesse On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation at http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Alex - This is a great addition to the API - will make things much easier. Quick question (and I apologize if this is already documented): do the followers / friends always come in descending order of when they friendship/follow was created? In other words will the most recent follow/friend always be first? I know the original followers call was ordered in the order in which the follower joined twitter. Hoping this isn't set up the same way - it would be nice to basically stop iterating over the list once a repeat friend/follower is found. Thanks for the clarification, Matt On Feb 3, 5:01 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: New API methods to retrieve social graph without pagination
Just wanted to supply sample output for the curious: curl --basic --user dougw:PASSWORD http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? ids id2396591/id id13348/id id6014732/id id9300822/id /ids @dougw On Feb 3, 11:17 pm, Matt K. mkoi...@gmail.com wrote: Alex - This is a great addition to the API - will make things much easier. Quick question (and I apologize if this is already documented): do the followers / friends always come in descending order of when they friendship/follow was created? In other words will the most recent follow/friend always be first? I know the original followers call was ordered in the order in which the follower joined twitter. Hoping this isn't set up the same way - it would be nice to basically stop iterating over the list once a repeat friend/follower is found. Thanks for the clarification, Matt On Feb 3, 5:01 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Happy to announce two new API methods today, delivered in response to developer demand for an easier way to keep tabs on users' social graphs. The methods, /friends/ids and /followers/ids, return the entire list of numeric user IDs for a user's set of followed and following users, respectively. Responses to these methods are cached until the user's social graph changes. The responses come direct from our denormalized list data stores, and should be reasonably fast even for users with a large number of followers/follows. These new methods are most useful for services that are maintaining a cache of user details. If you see a user ID that you don't have cached, you'll have to call /users/show to retrieve that user's details. But for services with large user bases, or those that simply want to diff a user's social graph over time, we hope these methods will come in handy. You can find the documentation athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#SocialGraphMethods. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
