[twitter-dev] Re: The best method for finding new retweets
I've worked on this and havn't found any clean solutions.. Checking all new retweets would consume too much requests :( Note that if statuses/mentions method was running as expected (http:// dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/mentions) with the include_rts parameter, we wouldnt have any problem with that... (but actually retweets are not showed even with the include_rts set to true). On Oct 29, 11:22 pm, Tobias C. Jensen 2bia...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys. I just tried showing my retweets using retweets_of_me. However, if I get someone to retweet one of my already retweeted statuses, nothing changes in the result - because it already figures as retweeted, and retweets_count always shows 'false'. So does this mean I have to look them all through and find their individual retweets, everytime I want to find out if I've got new ones? Or is there another method I can use? All I want to do is monitor new retweets. Thanks in advance! - Tobias -- 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: language and geocode problem
They're working on a fix. That's all. People always asking timeframe to coders make me mad.. If your car refuses to start and you have no idea why, and someone bugging you every 2 minutes : how long before it works ? What would you say.. On Nov 30, 5:47 pm, Colin Surprenant colin.surpren...@gmail.com wrote: Currently it looks like any geo based search queries are returning zero result. ex, on New York:http://search.twitter.com/search.json?geocode=40.739454,-73.883743,75km The question is: what is the expected timeframe for a fix on this? hours, days, weeks? They only say Engineering working on a fix. See https://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/9262744515645440http://twitter.com/#!/twitterapi/status/9636345710379008 Colin On Nov 30, 8:27 am, mazz sen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, has somebody noticed that there are problems filtering the search with language and geocode? This search gives only few tweets or nothing:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=enq=me and with italian ther's no way to get results:http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=itq=calcio thanks Mazz -- 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 API Optional lang Has Problem.
Same here. On Nov 29, 1:50 am, Jeong Hoon Kim redi...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 days ago, Suddenly Search API Optional lang had no results..My optional lang is ko. Did anybody apply Search API lang option? Did the results come out correctly? -- 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 API Optional lang Has Problem.
And same with some search operators (like source:xxx) Sorry for posting twice :) On Nov 29, 1:50 am, Jeong Hoon Kim redi...@gmail.com wrote: About 5 days ago, Suddenly Search API Optional lang had no results..My optional lang is ko. Did anybody apply Search API lang option? Did the results come out correctly? -- 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: Getting tweets from users following a particular user
Simply create an account to follow them :) Or make a list... On Nov 30, 1:51 am, Louis louis...@gmail.com wrote: I was under the impression that using 'follow' simply returns tweets or retweets which were originally created by, or were in reply to, a specific user - I'm interested in getting *any* tweet from all users following this special user (sampled possibly). For example, I could use it to see what people who follow @Microsoft talk about, Microsoft related or not. On Nov 29, 9:12 pm, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky- research.net wrote: Quoting Louis louis...@gmail.com: I'd like to stream tweets from the set of users which follow a specific user. Is there a way to do this directly, or a way to get a list of such users, so I can then specify to filter tweets from them only? It depends on how many followers the user has. Up to 5000, you can do it with the follow parameter either on the filter Streaming endpoint or on User Streams. Over 5000, you will need to get elevated access via Gnip. -- M. Edward (Ed) Boraskyhttp://borasky-research.nethttp://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos -- 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: Best scalable method to process mentions
I guess you should use the stream api to get mentions in real time. No need to process it directly, you could code a simple client connected to the stream api which record new mention in database, then launch your script time to time and get the mentions via the database rather than via the twitter api. On Nov 30, 1:25 am, Serdar ser...@guzelanket.com wrote: Hi I have just launched my first twitter application. Basically: -People send a tweet that mentions @appName (authorizing not needed) -App checks for new @appName mentions *from time to time*, and process them. There is a max mentions limit (200) that can be retrieved at a time via API. I know I'm not hitting this limit soon with the app but I want to code a scalable method fo get mentions. Unfortunaltely we do not have the option to get mentions in the 'oldest first' order. This causes a little tricky code for getting mentions in chunks and not missing older tweets. (Suppose you had 200+ mentions since last check). For testing I limit, 'max mentions to get at a time' to 10, in my code and it seems to be working. I won't go into more details... -I would like to know if any of you have coded something similar? -Would love to see an alternative, as I'm not happy with my code! -Is there an API method I could use for this purpose, which would make things easier? Thanks, Serdar. -- 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] twt.tl and t.co and the security
This new feature can be great, especialy if you provide some free analytics about clicks, retweets count in the way bit.ly does (R.I.P. :D). But you said : we're trying to protect users against phishing and other malicious attacks I'm wondering how you can do that : expand all urls and follow http redirections ? What if attackers are using meta redirectors, or javascript redirectors, or flash redirectors ? :) I wish you good luck !
[twitter-dev] Re: Error using the search API
First you should read this : http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Rate-limiting
On Dec 18, 8:19 pm, sitting tiger huayin.w...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am getting error like this while testing my app using Twitter Search
API:
{'error': 'You have been rate limited. Enhance your calm.'}
I do not think that I am reaching the 2 limit.
What should I do/check?
Thanks in advance.
[twitter-dev] lang parameter in the search api
The language filter in the search api doesnt seem very accurate. I've noticed that using Google Translate API for lang detection allow to refine results very well. So I suggest, if Twitter makes a deal with google, try to get their lang detection system :) It could be great for stream api too...
[twitter-dev] Re: about OAuth
Yes you can.. On 10 oct, 20:05, Oguzhan asp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm using OAuth in my twitter application and I was wondering something. Have received the user's permission by OAuth. I saved my database oauth_token after for example one day later. Can I update twitter status with my saved oauth_token?
[twitter-dev] Re: Followers/screen_names API
I think changeable screen_names are a big problem even outside the api, for links for example : twitter accounts are linked everywhere with uri http://twitter.com/screen_name so it may cause 404 if the user changes his/her screen_name, or worst if someone else takes it, it will link to the wrong place ! Such links should be very low valued by search engines. This is even not what it's called Unique Ressource Identifier... On Sep 5, 7:30 pm, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote: You've just made a perfect argument for my suggestion that Twitter use ONLY unchangeable screen names (no more ids) for the whole system. :) Owkaye I know there's been a ton of request for a followers/screen_names API, or a friends/screen_names one for that matter. Right now the only way of getting all of a user's followers is with http://twitter.com/followers/ids.xmland that only renders the id's. There's no efficient way of getting the associated screen_names without doing hundreds/thousands/millions of calls or running into API rate limits. Twitter has rejected the creation of a followers/screen_names API due to performance issues/ concerns. What if I or you want to present our app users with a human readable list of their followers/friends. I believe the alternative is a much more performance heavy approach for Twitter. What's to stop me from creating a 1000 (or more) unique users that my app/service uses to resolve id's into screen_names? That way I would have hundreds of thousands of API calls available each hour and could easily create a locally cached db of id-to-screen_name pairs. And of course I would have to recheck all of them every few days or so to account for screen_name changes, since there isn't an API for that either. All of this would result in millions of API calls a day, just to do something that Twitter could enable with one simple API... Hell, I could register a hundred thousand users, and create a service that maintains an id-to-screen_name pair db for Twitter's entire userbase and make it available to the dev community as a service to work around this issue... What do you think? Wouldn't it be much easier and beneficial to Twitter to enable this simple API that many of us have been asking for for so long now? I look forward to you thoughts... Michael
[twitter-dev] Allowing password update or stopping allowing email update via api
I was wondering why we can not set user password via the user_update method. Email can be updated this way, and a bad app could then use the http://twitter.com/account/resend_password form to steal some twitter accounts. Maybe the user_update method shouldnt be able to update email. Or maybe creating a third access level would be an option (read, read / write, update email or password)..
[twitter-dev] Re: Counter for rate limit remaining requests unreliable, often reaches 0 unduly
According to the last api request you've done, X-RateLimit-Remaining can be user limit or IP limit (depends if you made an authentified request or not). This can explain the X-RateLimit-Remaining values you've posted. On Sep 4, 11:03 am, Reivax xavier.yo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm having this problem for a few days, and I've been monitoring ALL requests sent to twitter, here is what I saw : The value of the X-RateLimit-Remaining header is totally unreliable. For instance, the response to a request will have it at 120, while the next response will have it at 40. Then subsequent request responses will have values such as 118, 39, 37, 36, 117, ... and so on. All responses have the same X-RateLimit-Reset ! It all looks like there are 2 unsynchronized counters, and responses get values from either one of them... The trouble is that one counter reaches 0 much too early, which makes my twitter client says the maximum allowed request has been reached !! I make 3 requests every 2 minutes, so I should never reach the max. I have the exact same behavior when using the rate_limit_status request. I made sure I have no other client on that account, and I can reproduce the problem each time. Even if I had, there would not be cases where it goes from 36 to 117 for 2 adjacent requests... Thanks for looking into that ! (I can provide traces of the requests) Regards, Xavier
[twitter-dev] Re: Getting screen_name from id without gazillion API calls?
statuts/friends and status/followers i guess On Sep 5, 3:01 am, dizid glasw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, When i request friends (or followers) from the Twitter API i want to get the screen_name's based on the id's. I use users/show for this, inputting the id and getting back de screen_name. This costs ALOT of API calls and i run into the API rate limit fast, especially with many friends. Is there a better way of getting screen_names for friends / followers? ( Better, meaning in fewer API calls.) Thank you.
[twitter-dev] An issue with the API Method: favorites and the return value Following
After some tests, it seems the return value for Following after a call to get favorites of a user is pretty bugged. For example in the same set of results where 2 distincts favorited statuses are from the same user, the following field can be different ! (one time false, one time true). The only way to be sure the authentified user who does the favorites query is following or not the writer of the favorited tweet would be to use another api call and compare id with those returned by the friends/id method ? That would be boring :(
[twitter-dev] Re: Anyone updated jmathai OAuth library for 301s?
I've just coded this function which may help :
function redirect_post($url,$data) {
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
list($header,$content) = preg_split(#(\r)?\n(\r)?\n#s,curl_exec
($ch),2);
$http_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
curl_close($ch);
if (in_array($http_code,array(301,302))) {
$redir = preg_match(#Location:(.*?)\n#si,$header,$m) ? trim($m
[1]) : '';
if ($redir ($redir != $url)) return
redirect_post($redir,$data);
}
return $content;
}
I've tested, it's ok ; and shouldn't be so hard to use in the lib.
I'll have to use the Jaisen Mathai OAuth library very soon too, so if
no solution has been found I'll post mine here :)
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