Bug#882390: libnet-twitter-perl: tweets are truncated to 140 characters
Control: retitle -1 libnet-twitter-perl: please document how to get extended
tweets
Control: tags -1 - unreproducible
On 2017-11-24 23:21:56 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> True but we might still fix the 140 character issue.
>
> Except that I see no mention of "140" in the code (only in the POD)?!
> The update method seems to just POST to statuses/update, and that's
> it.
I'm not talking about the "update" method, but tweets that are read,
e.g. via user_timeline. The limit of 140 characters comes from Twitter,
with the old API. However, after searching a bit, I've found that it
doesn't need any code change. The POD documentation is just misleading
(one has the impression that it gives all the parameters that are
accepted) and incomplete with the current API.
According to
https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/tweet-updates
one needs the "Extended" mode for REST APIs.
For user_timeline, the documentation is:
user_timeline
Parameters: user_id, screen_name, since_id, max_id, count,
trim_user, exclude_replies, include_rts, contributor_details
Required: none
[...]
It should add the "tweet_mode" parameter, and say that it can be
set to "extended" for extended mode, and say that the tweet is
available in "full_text" instead of "text".
But since this applies to several methods, this could also be a
new section in the documentation. The initial example could also
be updated, by changing
my $statuses = $nt->friends_timeline({ since_id => $high_water,
count => 100 });
for my $status ( @$statuses ) {
print "$status->{created_at} <$status->{user}{screen_name}>
$status->{text}\n";
to
my $statuses = $nt->friends_timeline({ since_id => $high_water,
count => 100, tweet_mode => 'extended' });
for my $status ( @$statuses ) {
print "$status->{created_at} <$status->{user}{screen_name}>
$status->{full_text}\n";
(not tried on this particular example, but this worked in my scripts
for home_timeline and user_timeline).
BTW, the URL's to the API documentation are obsolete, so that this
didn't help at the beginning.
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Vincent Lefèvre - Web:
Bug#882390: libnet-twitter-perl: tweets are truncated to 140 characters
Control: tag -1 + unreproducible
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:04:49 +0100, Florian Schlichting wrote:
> > Some time ago, Twitter has extended tweets to more than 140 characters.
> > But with Net::Twitter, tweets are truncated to 140 characters, and
> > even less (because they include a link to get the full tweet when this
> > occurs). This makes this module rather useless nowadays.
> >
> > This module should be updated to the current Twitter API.
>
> in https://github.com/semifor/Net-Twitter/issues/76 the upstream author
> makes clear that he considers Net::Twitter a dead end and has deprecated
> it in favour of Twitter::API. In fact, the git repo has added the
> following notice:
>
> This module has been superseded by L. Please update as
> soon as you possibly can to use new features and the new API
> versions. This module will no longer be supported.
True but we might still fix the 140 character issue.
Except that I see no mention of "140" in the code (only in the POD)?!
The update method seems to just POST to statuses/update, and that's
it.
So let's try ...
*a bit later*
With the result of the attached script I got (no error, exit status
0, and): https://twitter.com/gregoa_/status/934184021684301824
(length 188 characters)
So I can't reproduce a 140 character limit in Net::Twitter.
Cheers,
gregor
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#/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::Twitter;
use Scalar::Util 'blessed';
my $nt = Net::Twitter->new(
traits => [qw/API::RESTv1_1/],
consumer_key=> ...,
consumer_secret => ...,
access_token=> ...,
access_token_secret => ...,
);
my $tweet
= 'Test for https://bugs.debian.org/882390 - what does Net::Twitter do with long messages? '
. '0123456789' x 10;
my $result = $nt->update($tweet);
if ( my $err = $@ ) {
die $@ unless blessed $err && $err->isa('Net::Twitter::Error');
warn "HTTP Response Code: ", $err->code, "\n",
"HTTP Message..: ", $err->message, "\n",
"Twitter error.: ", $err->error, "\n";
}
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Bug#882390: libnet-twitter-perl: tweets are truncated to 140 characters
Hi Vincent, > Some time ago, Twitter has extended tweets to more than 140 characters. > But with Net::Twitter, tweets are truncated to 140 characters, and > even less (because they include a link to get the full tweet when this > occurs). This makes this module rather useless nowadays. > > This module should be updated to the current Twitter API. in https://github.com/semifor/Net-Twitter/issues/76 the upstream author makes clear that he considers Net::Twitter a dead end and has deprecated it in favour of Twitter::API. In fact, the git repo has added the following notice: This module has been superseded by L. Please update as soon as you possibly can to use new features and the new API versions. This module will no longer be supported. Unfortunately, Twitter::API doesn't seem to be packaged in Debian, and its POD says "This in an alpha release. The interface may change." ... Florian
Bug#882390: libnet-twitter-perl: tweets are truncated to 140 characters
Package: libnet-twitter-perl Version: 4.01041-1 Severity: important Some time ago, Twitter has extended tweets to more than 140 characters. But with Net::Twitter, tweets are truncated to 140 characters, and even less (because they include a link to get the full tweet when this occurs). This makes this module rather useless nowadays. This module should be updated to the current Twitter API. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=POSIX (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libnet-twitter-perl depends on: ii libcarp-clan-perl 6.06-1 ii libclass-load-perl 0.24-1 ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.73.04-2+b2 ii libdata-visitor-perl 0.30-2 ii libdatetime-format-strptime-perl 1.7400-1 ii libdatetime-perl 2:1.44-1 ii libdevel-stacktrace-perl 2.0200-1 ii libdigest-hmac-perl1.03+dfsg-1 ii libhtml-parser-perl3.72-3+b2 ii libio-socket-ssl-perl 2.052-1 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.003009-1 ii liblwp-protocol-https-perl 6.07-2 ii libmoose-perl 2.1807-1+b1 ii libmoosex-role-parameterized-perl 1.10-1 ii libnamespace-autoclean-perl0.28-1 ii libnet-http-perl 6.17-1 ii libnet-oauth-perl 0.28-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.28-1 ii liburi-perl1.72-2 ii libwww-perl6.29-1 ii perl 5.26.1-2 libnet-twitter-perl recommends no packages. libnet-twitter-perl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
