[twitter-dev] users/lookup
I'm using the users/lookup.json API and passing a valid list of user_ids that I retrieve from friends/ids (yes, there are 100). I keep getting the response: No user matches for specified terms when making the call, even though the list is valid and I have inspected the request being sent. Any ideas why this would be happening? The friends/ids call is working fine authenticated and I am trying to make a similar authenticated GET call with the users/lookup function. -- Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature on https://dev.twitter.com/discussions yet? Twitter developer links: Documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/docs API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Unsubscribe or change your group membership settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe
[twitter-dev] Re: users/lookup
So it only works with POST for me when using authentication. Not sure if this is an issue with the API itself. On Aug 9, 12:17 pm, Justin justin.cooper...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using the users/lookup.json API and passing a valid list of user_ids that I retrieve from friends/ids (yes, there are 100). I keep getting the response: No user matches for specified terms when making the call, even though the list is valid and I have inspected the request being sent. Any ideas why this would be happening? The friends/ids call is working fine authenticated and I am trying to make a similar authenticated GET call with the users/lookup function. -- Have you visited the Developer Discussions feature on https://dev.twitter.com/discussions yet? Twitter developer links: Documentation and resources: https://dev.twitter.com/docs API updates via Twitter: https://twitter.com/twitterapi Unsubscribe or change your group membership settings: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe
[twitter-dev] How to get lots of data really fast
I want to search for lists on Twitter using the Twitter API. I have tried using REST API with OAUTH and since the results are paged after 20, I can't seem to make large requests fast. In fact, it can take an entire minute or longer to complete all the back/forth requests involved with paging. What I am doing now but takes too long: 1. Get 'users/search' with a topic, say Lakers a. 20 users are returned (only 20 is fine for this step) 2. Look up 'username/lists/memberships' for each of the 20 users a. Get ALL lists (which requries slowly paging by making multiple requests) 3. I will compare and sort the lists on my end to get my search results of lists for the topic Lakers. Is there a better API or call to use to make this request fast? Thanks in advance for any help. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Search across multiple accounts
Is it possible to perform a search across multiple accounts? I've had a look though the search api and can't see anything but I could very well have missed something. What I'm thinking is something along the lines of: ?q=searchQuery+from%3Auser1,user2,user3 Also (again I can't see anything in the REST documentation straight away), is there a way to aggrigate streams of a defined list of users? Say; last X tweets from user1, user2 and user3? If not part of the twitter api, any suggestions? Many thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Search across multiple accounts
Fantastic, thanks Taylor... I had tried that but with = instead of :. Works a treat now :) Also, thanks for quick response... On Feb 23, 5:50 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Justin, See this thread for an explanation of how to do multi-user search and/or streaming search:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... @episod http://twitter.com/episod - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Justin justin.realw...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to perform a search across multiple accounts? I've had a look though the search api and can't see anything but I could very well have missed something. What I'm thinking is something along the lines of: ?q=searchQuery+from%3Auser1,user2,user3 Also (again I can't see anything in the REST documentation straight away), is there a way to aggrigate streams of a defined list of users? Say; last X tweets from user1, user2 and user3? If not part of the twitter api, any suggestions? Many thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Search across multiple accounts
I thought about that but figgured there must be a way to do it more efficiently - Taylor provided a link (above) to to solution... Thanks for the suggestion though :-) On Feb 23, 5:52 pm, yaemog Dodigo yae...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Justin, you could follow (with the streaming api) users 1,2,and 3. But then you'd have to perform the search yourself. Alternatively, you can track (with the streaming api) your searchQuery and only keep tweets from users 1,2, and 3. Maybe I'm missing something here (e.g., userstreams?) -m On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Justin justin.realw...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to perform a search across multiple accounts? I've had a look though the search api and can't see anything but I could very well have missed something. What I'm thinking is something along the lines of: ?q=searchQuery+from%3Auser1,user2,user3 Also (again I can't see anything in the REST documentation straight away), is there a way to aggrigate streams of a defined list of users? Say; last X tweets from user1, user2 and user3? If not part of the twitter api, any suggestions? Many thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] t.co wrapped urls in search api response, no unwrap param or entity currently?
I have a nightly batch process that does two searches based on a number of params from the day's data. I don't see that anything has changed here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method%3A-search But now I'm seeing t.co urls in the tweet.text instead of the real url (even though the real url did match my search), and I don't see any attribute set to figure out the real url. This means that url is hidden until I click it, and that won't work for me. Is this temporary, is the documentation out of date? I don't see a url unwrapper api for t.co, so, are there no solutions? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Provide a spam score (or rather a “good citizen” flag)
Rating/scoring users is something I'm working on as well and I agree. I've found sorting out bots and pure spammers to be very difficult. Some folks tweet so much they resemble bots/spam. Feels like a pipe dream but if they can I'd love a karma scoring system directly from the API. On Oct 16, 4:28 am, Dave-twiends i...@davesumter.com wrote: I really like the option of reporting spam via the api. I’ve been blocking spam on my site for a long time but this gives me an option to report it now, and hopefully get these account suspended quicker so that they don’t come back. It would be really great if we could have a proactive api function as well, where we could get the likelihood of a user being a spammer. I know this is really difficult to do, and wrought with pitfalls, but perhaps it could be structured in some way? Maybe you could provide a “good citizen” flag for a user (i.e a user that hasn’t had any complaints, and has a certain account age). That way you don’t negatively impact any users, but we can then at least treat these users differently when they sign up with our site. I’m seeing more and more the need to provide different limits to users based on private trust/karma score we develop for each user. This would be a very valuable input for us to detect potential problem users before they can cause damage. Thanks Dave -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Site Streams - Unfollow Events?
It sounds like it's the same (NO) for both: Friendship Events Created - To you, from you Deleted - From you So, unfollow events from you not to you as the target. There doesn't seem to be any way to tell when someone stops following other than using the rest API to check followers and compare it to the list of following. Same with blocks: Created - From you (source) Deleted - From you (source) On Sep 30, 12:05 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Site Streams only or User Streams? I'm developing around User Streams. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting tsmango tsma...@gmail.com: Hi, Ed. Block and unblock events are already being delivered in the Site Stream. Very useful! On Sep 30, 12:30 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: As long as we're wishing, I'd like to get a notification when someone blocks me. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos - Thomas Mango @tsmango -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] 403 with null response?
Just noticed this in my log: Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 - response NULL Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 - caught http status 403, backing off. EXITED When I get any status other than 200 I back off and log the response, in this case the response was null. My rate limit is also logged and I was well under 20k The process that caught that 403 handles friendships, and seemed to be pulling my list for cache at the time. This is the only time I've seen this in at least 7 days. Any thoughts? Temp glitch? I noticed there have been about several back-offs with 500 listed as well. Just a choppy day? (it is Friday I guess). -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: How many user are using my app?
There's probably a better way, but: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=a+source:hootsuite That gets any message coming out of hootsuite with a in it, limited by the reliability of the search data of course. On Sep 30, 10:33 am, Luco lucfl...@arcor.de wrote: Hey there, is there a possibility to check out, how many users already started using my Twitter-App? Or can i search for tweets using via my app? Thanks for your help Best regards Luca -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: List of new users registering on twitter datawise
Since the vast majority of twitter users won't ever visit your site, why not just create a page if that user or a friend visits? Check out how wefollow.com does it, it works well. On Oct 1, 12:40 pm, Rajiv Kaushal kalyanra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Taylor, Thanks for clarification. Actually, my thought was to create new page for every user on website signing up on twitter where one can update his other information later. Next, Can I get list of users for particular category/suggestion[e.g Business, Family, Fashion] not with respect to particular user? If yes, how and what is the limit for that api on the number of users? Thanks and Regards, Rajiv On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, We don't provide any kind of feed/API for polling new signups. Generally, with any service that has a large user base, the motives of an organization or developer that wants the database of users from insert service name here will be suspect. What's the use case that you'd want/employ this information? We provide some categorical data of Twitter users available through GET users/suggestions (http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/suggestions) and its companion resources. Taylor On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:07 AM, rajiv74 kalyanra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can I get the list of users registering on twitter on daily basis or date wise using twitter api? Can I also get the list of twitter users category wise? Please help as I need to implement this in one of my site. If there is no way, can you help me to suggest alternate way to get the database of users from twitter? Thanks, Rajiv -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Rajiv Kaushal Software Engineer -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Custom background design
Just make your background and set here: http://twitter.com/settings/design Take a look at the background in the link you sited, you'll see how simple it is. http://a3.twimg.com/profile_background_images/98968019/fan_news_twitter_bg.PNG On Sep 30, 11:27 am, Erik der...@icomminteractive.com wrote: Hi. I want to update a Twitter page's background so that there is a gradient background image and on the left only, a graphic that spans the height (logo). But no matter what, when scrolling the page content, the logo stays in place. This is an example of what I saw.http://twitter.com/CBSfantasynews Can anyone guide me to a way of doing that? Thanks, Erik -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: 403 with null response?
I log the status code and the full response if available, which in this case it came back null. It is likely that it was either friends/ids, or followers/ids. I checked my logs and I don't believe this has ever happened before (backend has been in use for 14 months). Everything has been working fine sense. I've added additional logging, including the full headers and the method called when it happens so if it does happen again I'll have more info. On Oct 1, 3:46 pm, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Justin, Do you know the exact method call you were making when you got this? Was it friends/ids ? Have you seen the error again since? Are you logging the status message in addition to the code itself? Taylor On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Justin justin.carl...@gmail.com wrote: Just noticed this in my log: Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 - response NULL Oct 01/2010 12:20:05 pm : process 25236 - caught http status 403, backing off. EXITED When I get any status other than 200 I back off and log the response, in this case the response was null. My rate limit is also logged and I was well under 20k The process that caught that 403 handles friendships, and seemed to be pulling my list for cache at the time. This is the only time I've seen this in at least 7 days. Any thoughts? Temp glitch? I noticed there have been about several back-offs with 500 listed as well. Just a choppy day? (it is Friday I guess). -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Looking for Java class/package for Firehose
Alternatively, you can just dump to disk and have a separate process read through the queue. That would be ideal as you wouldn't lose any messages if your database goes down. (I guess I'm assuming your db is on it's own machine). On Oct 1, 12:11 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Yeah, the Perl library uses AnyEvent to achieve threading. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com: perl has the same limitation as php, I decided to use Java for streaming API because of support for threads. On Sep 30, 12:54 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: I've used the Perl AnyEvent::Twitter::Stream CPAN module and the Ruby tweetstream gem. Both of them work just fine, although I think the error handling in the Perl one may have a glitch. The Perl one is lighter on both CPU and RAM use, but that's the nature of Perl vs. Ruby, not something in the library codes themselves. I don't know if either of them has been updated to work with the official User Streams endpoint yet - last time I looked at User Streams, I used cURL from the command line. I'll probably get back to my User Streams project next week - I've been pushing to get my appliances in shape for the SUSE Disters contest entry deadline, which is tomorrow. ;-) And yes, I'd still like the option to get spritzer data in User Streams without having to open another connection. But I'm probably the only one. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: While it's in Scala, not Java, I've heard good things about @alejandrocrosa's Scala-TwitterStreamer : http://github.com/acrosa/Scala-TwitterStreamer--you should be able to make use of it fairly easily in a Java environment. We'd love to start collecting libraries built around the Streaming API. Regardless of language, does anyone have libraries to share with everyone? Taylor On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:25 AM, D. Smith emai...@sharedlog.com wrote: Hello there! I am pretty experienced with using PHP for Twitter, but now I want to use firehose and Java seems to be a much better fit because of 'Threads', so I can listen to Firehose the pass a job to a thread and return right away. PHP cannot do that, well, maybe to some crazy hacks that I am not too impressed with. Anyway, can someone recommend a good Java client that does that, ideally where I can just extend the class to write my own runnable classes. thanks a lot. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Question about truncated entities in the streaming API
Are entities not delivered if the tweet is truncated? Can they be in the future? I've noticed that when retweets are delivered they have RT @whateverusername: prepended, this often shoves a url or hash tag off the end of a message and I don't seem to receive the entity either, even though it was in the original message. Am I missing something? Is the original message available or could it be added as original_text? Thanks for any insight! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Question about truncated entities in the streaming API
It looks like I should be looking for retweeted_status... I overlooked that. On Sep 23, 10:14 am, Justin justin.carl...@gmail.com wrote: Are entities not delivered if the tweet is truncated? Can they be in the future? I've noticed that when retweets are delivered they have RT @whateverusername: prepended, this often shoves a url or hash tag off the end of a message and I don't seem to receive the entity either, even though it was in the original message. Am I missing something? Is the original message available or could it be added as original_text? Thanks for any insight! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Question about truncated entities in the streaming API
Actually I'm still unsure, are entities provided in the retweeted_status? Where is retweeted_status documented, especially it's use in the streaming api? Still digging... On Sep 23, 10:36 am, Justin justin.carl...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like I should be looking for retweeted_status... I overlooked that. On Sep 23, 10:14 am, Justin justin.carl...@gmail.com wrote: Are entities not delivered if the tweet is truncated? Can they be in the future? I've noticed that when retweets are delivered they have RT @whateverusername: prepended, this often shoves a url or hash tag off the end of a message and I don't seem to receive the entity either, even though it was in the original message. Am I missing something? Is the original message available or could it be added as original_text? Thanks for any insight! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
[twitter-dev] Re: Using @Anywhere under SSL
It is a shame Cassie, I'm having to use OAuth - more flexability but would be nice to have the simplicity of Anywhere On Sep 21, 8:37 pm, Cassie Lynn cassie.schwendi...@gmail.com wrote: yet? Do we have any way of knowing when this might happen? And thanks for asking this here Justin! I asked on @anywhere and no one has replied (it has been almost a week). Thanks! - Cassie On Sep 20, 5:00 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: FYI, there's a Mailing List specifically for @Anywhere. The list you mailed to is the API developer list. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere To answer your question: no, there's no SSL version (yet). Tom On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:53:05 -0700 (PDT), Justin justin.realw...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to use the Connect with Twitter @Anywhere function but I would need to use it in a secure enviroment - that is under SSL. I first tried this when @Anywhere was first launched adn gave up thinking that perhaps it's a little too early? Having recently returned to it, I was disapointed to discover that the situation doesn't seem to have changed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Simply adding an s to http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.jsdoesn'twork, I wonder if there's another unpublished URL, or if Twitter have any plans to impliment this. I'd prefer to use @Anywhere over oAuth, but may not have a choice :-( Thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Using @Anywhere under SSL
I would love to use the Connect with Twitter @Anywhere function but I would need to use it in a secure enviroment - that is under SSL. I first tried this when @Anywhere was first launched adn gave up thinking that perhaps it's a little too early? Having recently returned to it, I was disapointed to discover that the situation doesn't seem to have changed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Simply adding an s to http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js doesn't work, I wonder if there's another unpublished URL, or if Twitter have any plans to impliment this. I'd prefer to use @Anywhere over oAuth, but may not have a choice :-( Thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Using @Anywhere under SSL
Thanks for the reply Tom, Sorry, I didn't realise there was another group - I see I'm not the only one in need of it... Here's hoping the Twitter team impliment it soon... Justin On Sep 20, 11:00 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: FYI, there's a Mailing List specifically for @Anywhere. The list you mailed to is the API developer list. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere To answer your question: no, there's no SSL version (yet). Tom On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:53:05 -0700 (PDT), Justin justin.realw...@gmail.com wrote: I would love to use the Connect with Twitter @Anywhere function but I would need to use it in a secure enviroment - that is under SSL. I first tried this when @Anywhere was first launched adn gave up thinking that perhaps it's a little too early? Having recently returned to it, I was disapointed to discover that the situation doesn't seem to have changed. Does anyone know if this is possible? Simply adding an s to http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.jsdoesn't work, I wonder if there's another unpublished URL, or if Twitter have any plans to impliment this. I'd prefer to use @Anywhere over oAuth, but may not have a choice :-( Thanks Justin -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: newbie question on rate limits
You can lookup 100 users per rate limited call, that should be plenty to play around with. http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method:-users-lookup On Sep 20, 10:38 am, Vijay vijayaraghura...@gmail.com wrote: You really shouldn't be planning for the case where every single Twitter user uses your application Haha, I agree. Its just that I took a few thousand users randomly, and was playing with their publicly available stats, tweets etc and quickly hit the rate limit. Hence this question. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: You really shouldn't be planning for the case where every single Twitter user uses your application ;-) When you get to 100 users, you request whitelisting. When you get to 2 users, your server will have a problem handling all the information and you'll need to get a second server anyway. Tom On 9/20/10 5:17 PM, Vijay wrote: I am not sure about 20k, but 150 is miniscule. If I am collecting stats on a bunch of users every hour for example, I can only collect on 150 users, which is tiny, compared to 140 million users Twitter has. How do the big companies manage? For example, twittercounter claims to have stats on 10 million users...that is a LOT of data. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu mailto:i...@tvdw.eu wrote: 20k per IP is a lot. It means that a server should make more than 5 requests per second to hit the limit, which is a lot. About your options: no idea. Just make sure to use the proper functions and try not to hit the limits? :-) 150 is a lot as well, most Desktop clients don't hit it (didn't, until Lists came ^^). Tom On 9/20/10 4:56 PM, Vijay wrote: Hi, Newbie question, so please bear with me. I am experimenting with twitter API, but quickly found myself hitting the rate limit (150 without authentication, correct?) How do the big sites get over the rate limit (tweetstats, twittercounter etc)? Twitter's documentation says they can white list IPs, but would still allow only 20k requests per hour. Also, they would only white list apps that are already in production. So if I just want to experiment / learn, this wouldn't work. What are my options? There is no way I can have multiple IPs. Vijay. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Filtered Streaming API, Count, and Confusing Wording in the Wiki
I found my answer elsewhere, but the wording on the wiki seems confusing, I'd remove count as a param if it's not usable. 09/20/2010 09:45:50 pm : HTTP failure 4 of 20 connecting to stream: HTTP ERROR 416: Requested Range Not Satisfiable (Parameter count not allowed in role statusDefaultFiltered). Sleeping for 90 seconds. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/filter States: Parameters Optional count Indicates the number of previous statuses to consider for delivery before transitioning to live stream delivery. On unfiltered streams, all considered statuses are delivered, so the number requested is the number returned. *On filtered streams, the number requested is the number of statuses that are applied to the filter predicate, and not the number of statuses returned*. Firehose, Retweet, Link, Birddog and Shadow clients interested in capturing all statuses should maintain a current estimate of the number of statuses received per second and note the time that the last status was received. Upon a reconnect, the client can then estimate the appropriate backlog to request. The count parameter is not allowed on other resources and the default filter role. What is the default filter role? Is there a case where count can be used with the filtered stream? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.
Yes, right now my server acts like an automated client for one account (never more), it handles messages and dms, follows, etc. In my case it sounds like I'll be ok just using two connections then, one to the statuses/filter streaming api, and one to the user stream for my site's account. Though, if the site streams do offer the same Friendship, Blocks, Favorite and Retweet events, I might as well implement that way, assuming I do get granted access. Thanks for the feedback On Sep 16, 8:20 am, John Kalucki j...@twitter.com wrote: I'm sorry, I laid out the difference between User Streams and Site Streams, but I forgot to bring it all back to the specific question at hand. The critical difference isn't Desktop vs. Web Site-- that's the general case description. The key difference is that you must multiplex if you open more than a handful of connections. In this specific case, there's nothing to multiplex, so remaining on User Streams is OK, despite coming from a server. The usage is really as if a single user was monitoring an account. To answer Tom's question, currently a User Stream connection and a Site Stream connection with a single user have the same cost. Sorry for the incomplete answer. Does this make sense? -John On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Hi John, This seems like a rather strange policy. Is the cost of having one User Streams connection not far lower than having a connection to Site Streams? That's what Justin asked, just one connection. Tom On 9/16/10 6:22 AM, John Kalucki wrote: Our intention is that User Streams and Site Streams will, shortly, offer the same data and filtering options at a similar, if not identical, QoS. I'm sure some subtleties will creep in over time, as they always do, but this parity is our goal. The major difference is that User Streams, given its higher per-user cost, is limited only to user-based applications that connect directly to the Twitter API. In this use case, we have no alternative but to service a connection from each user device. Site Streams, on the other hand, allows services, such as your website, to open many User Streams multiplexed over a smaller number of connections. This reduces per-user cost, and makes large scale integrations tractable. Several pretty large services have integrated with Site Streams in just a few days, so this multiplexing is unlikely to be an undue additional burden over a User Streams integration, and might even save a lot of work over time. If you attempt to use User Streams from a service, we can trivially detect this situation, and we'll classify your usage as against the TOS. To put our current thinking as bluntly as possible: we intend to enforce the distinction between User Streams and Site Streams via revocation of access. -John Kalucki http://twitter.com/jkalucki Twitter, Inc. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Justin justin.carl...@gmail.com mailto:justin.carl...@gmail.com wrote: I've successfully migrated one of my sites away from making search and mention rest calls, switched over to the streaming API and I'm loving it. I still need to move it to OAuth but now that I have that in test I'm reading up on the User and Site streams and I have a question. It seems the User stream states that websites should not use it, and should use the Site stream instead, but I don't consume or care about my user's activity, my site is centered around the messages and interactions with the application user not the users themselves. Right now I track and evaluate followers and other bits using the rest calls but from what I see I could eliminate those rest calls and be off them (possibly) all together if I could use the User stream to accept information about new and broken friendships, favorites, dms, etc. Is it acceptable to use the User stream in that manor since I would only need it for the app user account not my site user's accounts? If so, I can just maintain the two streams (filtered streaming api and user stream) and eliminate or cut back my rest calls dramatically? Please let me know so I can plan accordingly. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http
[twitter-dev] Question about User Vs Site Streams, and Moving away from REST calls.
I've successfully migrated one of my sites away from making search and mention rest calls, switched over to the streaming API and I'm loving it. I still need to move it to OAuth but now that I have that in test I'm reading up on the User and Site streams and I have a question. It seems the User stream states that websites should not use it, and should use the Site stream instead, but I don't consume or care about my user's activity, my site is centered around the messages and interactions with the application user not the users themselves. Right now I track and evaluate followers and other bits using the rest calls but from what I see I could eliminate those rest calls and be off them (possibly) all together if I could use the User stream to accept information about new and broken friendships, favorites, dms, etc. Is it acceptable to use the User stream in that manor since I would only need it for the app user account not my site user's accounts? If so, I can just maintain the two streams (filtered streaming api and user stream) and eliminate or cut back my rest calls dramatically? Please let me know so I can plan accordingly. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Search/Stream API
Also, from what I understand, search may not include everything, it's filtered a bit, streaming is everything. On Sep 15, 11:29 am, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: The search gives you back a list of tweets from the past, the stream will send tweets to your application the moment they are sent. Tom On 9/15/10 6:13 PM, Mike wrote: What is the difference between the Search and Stream API? I can't really tell. Detail would be great, and how it can be applied in the real world other then the Search one over the Stream. -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
[twitter-dev] Re: win phone 7 xAuth
Like Taylor said, find your time offset relative to Twitter's. The
WP7 Emulator timestamp is terribly off, and it is probably a good idea
to keep your own offset anyway with devices that may have been off-
network a long time (or in the future, zune devices which dont have a
source).
In my personal library (based on the real basic OAuthBase.cs) I'm
grabbing the timestamp and calculating an offset from the system
clock, so I only have to grab the time every so often.
I didn't see if the timestamp Hammock uses is injectable though.
On Sep 1, 1:21 am, Hongwei suhongwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys,
Does anyone know what is wrong with my code? it always returns Failed
to validate oauth signature and token (it did return access token and
access access secret few day ago)
here is my code (I use Hammock/TweetSharp library)
private const string _consumerKey = cKey;
private const string _consumerSecret = cSecret;
private string _userName = uName;
private string _password = uPassword;
Button.Click
{
Hammock.RestClient c = new RestClient()
{
Authority = https://
api.twitter.com/oauth/,
HasElevatedPermissions =
true,
Credentials = new
OAuthCredentials()
{
Type =
OAuthType.ClientAuthentication,
ConsumerKey =
_consumerKey,
ConsumerSecret =
_consumerSecret,
SignatureMethod =
OAuthSignatureMethod.HmacSha1,
ParameterHandling =
OAuthParameterHandling.HttpAuthorizationHeader,
ClientUsername =
_userName,
ClientPassword =
_password,
}
};
RestRequest r = new RestRequest()
{
Path = access_token,
};
c.BeginRequest(r, new RestCallback(Callback));
}
public void Callback(Hammock.RestRequest request,
Hammock.RestResponse response, object userState)
{
var a = response.Content; (I set debug here, and
variable 'a' contains Failed to validate oauth signature and token,
RestRespone.content contains 'Content' threw an exception of
typeSystem.UnauthorizedAccessException
}
Thanks
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[twitter-dev] Re: Need Help!! - How Oauth will work in my case?
You'll have to change clients, but you can obtain the required tokens to do the same calls. Changing auth schemes shouldn't change what you can get out of the API. Once you setup your user's app/ids the same whitelist applies. I just finished my conversion yesterday and everything's working the same. I use this now: http://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth/tree/master/twitteroauth/ Go up a directory from there to see samples. On Aug 21, 8:47 am, Rushikesh Bhanage rishibhan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I have a white-listed account, but the rate-limit has decreased from 20k before 5 days to 12k right now. Initially I thought that this might be due to twitter running over-capacity because I was busy in finishing part of app to launch it in two days. But i just read one mail from Justin who is having same problem, now I realized that this cut off might be due to basic auth. I was also aware about the basic oauth shutting down, but didn't click the mind. We can switch to Oauth, but here are some doubts: 1. *What my app does*? - in my app, when any twitter user enters his name- we crawl his data thru userstatus method, then we crawl his all the followers and show him his real followers. For this I am using My Twitter Library from Andres Scheffer, to which I pass my white listed account user name and password to get all the data. *Now which Oauth library should I prefer that will meet my requirement?* 2. *How Oauth is going to work*? - I am doubtful that how Oauth is going to work in my case, until now any user can enter his user name and was able to get his result. now will I have to take Oauth from each searched user to show his result? If it is so how can I use my white listed account log ins to get 20k calls. Please clear my doubts. Thank you in advance.
[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload
My guess is that is the case. It is for Twitgoo as well. In Twitgoo we are using the $_POST array in PHP, which only grabs body parameters, not querystring parameters. Thats one of those awkward things about PHP. On Jul 27, 5:30 am, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi Justin, Don't suppose you have an example of a C# Httpwebrequest POST that is sent to Twitpic with an image attachment? I've actually found now that my headers are ok but from a trace have determined that the 401 error is because of 'no api key provided'. I thought it was ok to simply append parameters to the post Url? example: HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(http:// api.twitpic.com/2/upload.json?key=XXmessage=TestMessage); Or do I need to add the parameters to the post body along with the image data? Thanks Gerard On Jul 27, 6:52 am, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Thanks for replying Justin, much appreciated. Slwly getting there - I hope! Gerard On Jul 27, 5:55 am, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: Oop, it looks like you've moved on (in a different thread). I'm actually working on some OAuth stuff in C# right now so I'll let you know if I come across something. On Jul 26, 10:49 pm, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I see what you're doing wrong - when you're adding the X-Auth- Service-Provider and X-Verify-Credentials-Authorization to the request, those are meant to be HTTP headers, not in the multipart POST body. Twitgoo supports putting those in the post body by setting everything to lowercase and replacing - with _ (so x_auth_service_provider, etc), and I believe Twitpic does as well. I'm pretty sure everything else looks right. I have an example HTTP packet including all the headers for Twitgoo:http://twitgoo.com/docs/Content/Developer/upload.htm(Itsinthe example link 'pulldown' in the top section) On Jul 25, 11:57 pm, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Thanks Andy, No that was just a typo on the post. I'm obviously not sending through the correct OAuth sig or something, just can't find what it is. I'm using the same mechanism to create the sig as that used to get an access token and for intial request of the request token, so not sure why this twitpic upload thing isn't working. It would be great if there were an asp.net example someone else had done but it's incredible that I can't find one on the net, First time ever not been able to find a working example! Gerard On Jul 26, 3:58 am, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Just for doublechekking. Your first post showed X-Auth-Service-Provider was JSON. If you signed to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml;, X-Auth-Service-Provider also must be XML. Andy On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi Andy, thanks for replying. Yes, I did sign the url as you mention. As a test, I also sent a request to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml; From this I get authorization ok using a standard call when using an Authorization header, but as soon as I use the header X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization then I get the 401 not authorized. I created the signed request using a GET not a POST, then modify the Realm part, as instructed by other posts. The credentials were creatd using the request url of https://api.twitter.com/1/account/ verify_credentials.xml. As far as I can tell, I am doing everything correctly - but obviously not. Can't fathom what the problem is, I wish Twitter API provided more feedback for debugging. Regards Gerard On Jul 24, 12:40 pm, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Did you sign to thehttps://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.jsontogetthe credentials? The signed url must be the same as X-Auth-Service-Provider. Andy Matsubara On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:57 PM, globaljobber - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi, Been on this for a week. Am having trouble uploading image to Twitpic with Oauth. I get user to authenticate ok, receive access_token, etc., and then try to make a httpwebrequest POST after generating X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization string. I am always getting a 401 Unauthorized Access response. Has anyone anywhere on the planet done this with ASP.NET yet who could help? Seems no one has. Here is part of the post that I
[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload
I think I see what you're doing wrong - when you're adding the X-Auth- Service-Provider and X-Verify-Credentials-Authorization to the request, those are meant to be HTTP headers, not in the multipart POST body. Twitgoo supports putting those in the post body by setting everything to lowercase and replacing - with _ (so x_auth_service_provider, etc), and I believe Twitpic does as well. I'm pretty sure everything else looks right. I have an example HTTP packet including all the headers for Twitgoo: http://twitgoo.com/docs/Content/Developer/upload.htm (Its in the example link 'pulldown' in the top section) On Jul 25, 11:57 pm, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Thanks Andy, No that was just a typo on the post. I'm obviously not sending through the correct OAuth sig or something, just can't find what it is. I'm using the same mechanism to create the sig as that used to get an access token and for intial request of the request token, so not sure why this twitpic upload thing isn't working. It would be great if there were an asp.net example someone else had done but it's incredible that I can't find one on the net, First time ever not been able to find a working example! Gerard On Jul 26, 3:58 am, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Just for doublechekking. Your first post showed X-Auth-Service-Provider was JSON. If you signed to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml;, X-Auth-Service-Provider also must be XML. Andy On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi Andy, thanks for replying. Yes, I did sign the url as you mention. As a test, I also sent a request to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml; From this I get authorization ok using a standard call when using an Authorization header, but as soon as I use the header X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization then I get the 401 not authorized. I created the signed request using a GET not a POST, then modify the Realm part, as instructed by other posts. The credentials were creatd using the request url of https://api.twitter.com/1/account/ verify_credentials.xml. As far as I can tell, I am doing everything correctly - but obviously not. Can't fathom what the problem is, I wish Twitter API provided more feedback for debugging. Regards Gerard On Jul 24, 12:40 pm, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Did you sign to thehttps://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.jsontogetthe credentials? The signed url must be the same as X-Auth-Service-Provider. Andy Matsubara On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:57 PM, globaljobber - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi, Been on this for a week. Am having trouble uploading image to Twitpic with Oauth. I get user to authenticate ok, receive access_token, etc., and then try to make a httpwebrequest POST after generating X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization string. I am always getting a 401 Unauthorized Access response. Has anyone anywhere on the planet done this with ASP.NET yet who could help? Seems no one has. Here is part of the post that I generate, including headers: --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=X-Auth-Service-Provider https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=X-Verify-Credentials- Authorization OAuth realm=http:// api.twitter.com/,oauth_consumer_key=9cjtDDCxlOYSSJqyp7XKzA,oauth_nonce= 6C850587,oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1,oauth_timestamp=1233928528,oauth_token=15321156-7q4tTvSwJ9oB6iWZh7 DvRjkn60eKTc1T4VRkNl4,oauth_version=1.0,oauth_signature=9FJK45EJtW4Efp nJla6S %2BGIqvuE%3D --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=message Test image upload --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=key 97bfc758472981ds9630232def4eea82 --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: file; name=media; filename=DSC_22.jpg Content-Type: image/jpeg Much appreciate any help from someone. Thanks Gerard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: TwitPic 401 Unauthorized image upload
Oop, it looks like you've moved on (in a different thread). I'm actually working on some OAuth stuff in C# right now so I'll let you know if I come across something. On Jul 26, 10:49 pm, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: I think I see what you're doing wrong - when you're adding the X-Auth- Service-Provider and X-Verify-Credentials-Authorization to the request, those are meant to be HTTP headers, not in the multipart POST body. Twitgoo supports putting those in the post body by setting everything to lowercase and replacing - with _ (so x_auth_service_provider, etc), and I believe Twitpic does as well. I'm pretty sure everything else looks right. I have an example HTTP packet including all the headers for Twitgoo:http://twitgoo.com/docs/Content/Developer/upload.htm(Its in the example link 'pulldown' in the top section) On Jul 25, 11:57 pm, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Thanks Andy, No that was just a typo on the post. I'm obviously not sending through the correct OAuth sig or something, just can't find what it is. I'm using the same mechanism to create the sig as that used to get an access token and for intial request of the request token, so not sure why this twitpic upload thing isn't working. It would be great if there were an asp.net example someone else had done but it's incredible that I can't find one on the net, First time ever not been able to find a working example! Gerard On Jul 26, 3:58 am, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Just for doublechekking. Your first post showed X-Auth-Service-Provider was JSON. If you signed to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml;, X-Auth-Service-Provider also must be XML. Andy On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:03 AM, globaljobber gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi Andy, thanks for replying. Yes, I did sign the url as you mention. As a test, I also sent a request to https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.xml; From this I get authorization ok using a standard call when using an Authorization header, but as soon as I use the header X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization then I get the 401 not authorized. I created the signed request using a GET not a POST, then modify the Realm part, as instructed by other posts. The credentials were creatd using the request url of https://api.twitter.com/1/account/ verify_credentials.xml. As far as I can tell, I am doing everything correctly - but obviously not. Can't fathom what the problem is, I wish Twitter API provided more feedback for debugging. Regards Gerard On Jul 24, 12:40 pm, Andy Matsubara andymatsub...@gmail.com wrote: Did you sign to thehttps://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.jsontogetthe credentials? The signed url must be the same as X-Auth-Service-Provider. Andy Matsubara On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:57 PM, globaljobber - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -gerardn...@exciteinternet.co.uk wrote: Hi, Been on this for a week. Am having trouble uploading image to Twitpic with Oauth. I get user to authenticate ok, receive access_token, etc., and then try to make a httpwebrequest POST after generating X-Verify- Credentials-Authorization string. I am always getting a 401 Unauthorized Access response. Has anyone anywhere on the planet done this with ASP.NET yet who could help? Seems no one has. Here is part of the post that I generate, including headers: --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=X-Auth-Service-Provider https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=X-Verify-Credentials- Authorization OAuth realm=http:// api.twitter.com/,oauth_consumer_key=9cjtDDCxlOYSSJqyp7XKzA,oauth_nonce= 6C850587,oauth_signature_method=HMAC- SHA1,oauth_timestamp=1233928528,oauth_token=15321156-7q4tTvSwJ9oB6iWZh7 DvRjkn60eKTc1T4VRkNl4,oauth_version=1.0,oauth_signature=9FJK45EJtW4Efp nJla6S %2BGIqvuE%3D --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=message Test image upload --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: form-data; name=key 97bfc758472981ds9630232def4eea82 --76a18be812b446b599adabd8c9b6fee0 Content-Disposition: file; name=media; filename=DSC_22.jpg Content-Type: image/jpeg Much appreciate any help from someone. Thanks Gerard- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -
[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo Example (PHP)
If you dont mind the Zend Framework stuff, I've got one over here: http://pastie.org/975634 Hopefully you can translate that to whatever you're using. On May 24, 1:42 pm, Greg gregory.av...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Developers, Does anyone have any example how to use TwitPic's OAuth Echo in PHP? I've been looking all over - but I'm little confused on how to sign the request? Any takers? Thanks, Greg
[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth Echo Enabled Providers
This is now active on Twitgoo. You can see the documentation here: http://twitgoo.com/docs/Content/Developer/upload.htm On May 19, 9:05 am, Justin Hart onyxra...@gmail.com wrote: I am the lead dev on Twitgoo and I just built full echo support for 'upload' there. Its on the beta site right now, so if you want to test, please contact me for the info, otherwise it should be out by the end of the week. It will have full support of header, query string and multipart body parameters. On May 17, 2:47 pm, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: With the impending switch off of Basic Auth, should we keep a list of media providers and external services that have already made the switch to oAuth Echo. So far I've found and tested TwitPic - full oAuth Echo support TwitVid - oAuth Echo by sending as a URL parameter I know MobyPicture intend to have oAuth Echo enabled this month. Any others any one knows of?
[twitter-dev] Re: oAuth Echo Enabled Providers
I am the lead dev on Twitgoo and I just built full echo support for 'upload' there. Its on the beta site right now, so if you want to test, please contact me for the info, otherwise it should be out by the end of the week. It will have full support of header, query string and multipart body parameters. On May 17, 2:47 pm, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: With the impending switch off of Basic Auth, should we keep a list of media providers and external services that have already made the switch to oAuth Echo. So far I've found and tested TwitPic - full oAuth Echo support TwitVid - oAuth Echo by sending as a URL parameter I know MobyPicture intend to have oAuth Echo enabled this month. Any others any one knows of?
[twitter-dev] Re: DDoS Status Update
Comments inline. On Aug 7, 12:05 pm, Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com wrote: *Known Issues* * - HTTP 300 response codes* - One of the measures in thwarting the onslaught requires that all traffic respect HTTP 30x response codes. This will help us identify the good traffic from the bad. Does this affect POST as well as GET? The issue here is the way clients handle 30x after POST. Most clients (now by convention) do not respect the RFC (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616- sec10.html#sec10.3) and will send a GET after POST always. Some clients will respect the method, but not re-post any data. We need to be sure we are all expecting the right things. How does this affect OAuth signed requests? OAuth requires knowing the HTTP Method as well as the full URI and parameters to generate signatures a priori. Most (all?) clients and libraries do not know how to handle changes in these during a redirect. * - General throttling* - Try to throttle your services back as much as possible for you to continue operating. We are working on our end to better understand the logic used in throttling traffic on the edge of the network and will communicate what we can, but the best idea is to just throttle back as much as you can in the mean time. Is there anything else we can do on the protocol level? Keepalives on/ off? Specific headers? Thanks for all your hard work. Having spent yesterday battling a rash of spambots is nothing compared to what you guys are doing. --Justin
[twitter-dev] Re: 140 character limit overridden for Twitgoo?
Hi, what app were you using? Just the website? On Jul 20, 4:20 pm, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Abraham: Thanks, but not sure I understand why the counter said 140 when i was inputting but the post count is 133? On Jul 20, 3:11 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If you look at the status you will find that it only posted at 133 characters. http://twitter.com/ABIRB123/status/2745931292 Abraham On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 16:36, Abir abstar...@gmail.com wrote: Guys: Just posted this on Twitgoo. -It let me post a 140 character + -The URL it is an oryx antelope, it's just a stock image from my laptop's repository. why do this? well i am testing!http://twitgoo.com/1ke92 Isn't the total limit 140 characters? or are URL's not counted? I am developing a service to buy and sell things on Twitter and this would be helpful to know. Thanks -- Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |http://web608.org Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Rate Limit reporting
I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not quite there yet... So how to return the rate limit for a given user? Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate (log in) The obvious way to do this is via GET with: http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP address and not the user. I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic probably) - could someone enlighten me? Many thanks
[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limit reporting
Sorry about emailing you my last response. I understand what you're saying about firefox - though I'm having the same issue with requests via Microsoft.XMLHTTP requests - it's gone the end of the day now (I do have a habit of starting these things when there's no time). Will carry on the fight tomorrow - at least I have a direction now - will try some other request methods. Many thanks once again for your quick responses. @JustinReid On Jul 13, 5:26 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Justin, The user:pass is a shortcut used by some browsers and libraries but is not supported in all libraries. What language/library are you using? Most of them have some option for setting the user and password directly. Also, the most common issue when seeing the IP limit is an incorrect password. You should also try calling verify_credentials to make sure the password is correct and everything is being received correctly by Twitter. Thanks; – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford Twitter Dev On Jul 13, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Justin wrote: I feel a bit silly asking this in the time of OAuth - but I'm not quite there yet... So how to return the rate limit for a given user? Looking at the api documentation I presume you need to authenticate (log in) The obvious way to do this is via GET with: http://username:passw...@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml I've also tried base64'ing the username:password as suggested here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication http://base64(User:Pass)@twitter.com/account/rate_limit_status.xml However, every time I try I'm returned with the rate limit for the IP address and not the user. I know I'm missing something (a few sandwiches from the picnic probably) - could someone enlighten me? Many thanks
[twitter-dev] Background Image URL always non-empty
(was posted a while ago, but no replies) If a background image is turned off by a user, its last value is still shown in the api for the verifyCredentials and user/show actions. For example, I get this: ... profile_background_image_url http://static.twitter.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif /profile_background_image_url ... although I would expect to see something like this: ... profile_background_image_url/ or another field that says profile_background_image_showfalse/ profile_background_image_show
[twitter-dev] profile_background_image_url always non-empty?
This is an older post, but I saw no activity around it. I'm seeing this too. It seems that the field profile_background_image_url should either be blank or there should be another flag (like the tile flag) that says if the background_image is being shown or not. Thanks. http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/0053c1c03493bf8e/a861485dad3d85de#a861485dad3d85de On Jan 20, 4:22 pm, Saša Šarunić ssaru...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this is expected behavior, but it seams like a bug to me: Even if I turn off abackgroundimagein my settings, it is still returned in call to /users/show api function. For example, I get this: ... profile_background_image_url http://static.twitter.com/images/themes/theme1/bg.gif /profile_background_image_url ... although I would expect to see something like this: ... profile_background_image_url/ ... Can someone comment on this? Sasa S.www.shoutem.com
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Let's get me in there too :) twitter: @justinpoliey email: jd...@njit.edu website: http://justinpoliey.com Developer of twitterlibphp On Feb 23, 2:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Questions about TOS
I have a tool which will allow users to follow everyone on the #TCOT list (in batches of 25). Someone brought up a concern that this might infringe on Twitter's TOS? Any thoughts on this. see below: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/
[twitter-dev] Good tool or spam?
I have a tool developed for the #TCOT community which will allow a user to follow everyone on that list in batches of 25. Is this kosher or does this run up against the Twitter TOS? Here's the tool: http://tweetforchuck.com/tcot/
[twitter-dev] Re: auto follow using twitter api
option #3 might include twitter extending their API. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Doug Williams do...@igudo.com wrote: iilv, Another way to auto-follow is to use the Social Graph API methods. For instance you could set up a script to run periodically that does the following: 1) download all of a user's friends' ID's through the friends/ids method and store them in a data structure 2) download all of the user's followers' IDs through the followers/ids method and store them in the data structure 3) perform a diff on these two data structures, finding all follower ids not currently in the friend id list. 4) follow the follower ids from step 3 with the friendships/create method This circumvents the parsing of new follower emails. The trade off is that it is not real-time since the script has to be run at periodic intervals. Hope that helps. Doug Williams @dougw do...@igudo.com On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:47 PM, TjL luo...@gmail.com wrote: Well, you can't auto-follow when someone sends you a DM, because you have to ALREADY be following someone in order to get a DM. You can auto-follow when someone starts to follow you. If you are familiar with procmail, you can auto-follow using the recipe below. (If you are not familiar with procmail, please delete and ignore. It's beyond my scope to teach and not every mail server supports it.) :0ci * ^X-Twitteremailtype: is_following * ^From: @postmaster\.twitter\.com * ^Subject: .* is now following you on Twitter! * ^X-Twittersenderscreenname: \/[^ ]+ | curl --netrc -s \ --data POST \ http://twitter.com/friendships/create/$MATCH.xml; /dev/null Note that you MUST have your twitter credentials stored in ~/.netrc for this to work in a format like this: machine twitter.com login YourTwitternameHere password SeKrEt Also note that this doesn't do any error-checking to make sure that the auto-follow has worked. FWIW TjL -- Doug Williams do...@igudo.com http://www.igudo.com -- -- Justin Kruger -- Sr. Software Engineer - MySpace MDP http://jDavid.net jdavid@gmail.com A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. - -- Oscar Wilde
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