[twitter-dev] Search API: searching for Don and finding don't instead

2010-06-03 Thread Jeffrey Greenberg
We have a user that is causing us to create a search of the form: Don SomeLastName which is returning tweets containing don't and SomeLastName. Thats a no good! Is there a decent workaround for this by modifying the search? e.g. Don SomeLastName -don't but how do you escape the single

[twitter-dev] Re: lang= Support in Search API

2010-06-03 Thread Hwee-Boon Yar
I get my list from http://search.twitter.com/advanced. -- Hwee-Boon On Jun 3, 10:21 am, Bess bess...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to confirm the list of language support on Search API b/c I couldn't find any documentation in this Google group andhttp://dev.twitter.com. From my online search

[twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread byqsri
Can someone give me any suggestion about it? Many thanks On 1 Giu, 11:08, byqsri marco.rizze...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm newbie with Twitter API. I use OAuth to do authentication. Now I have this feature to do : From my web application allow to the user to automatically enter on his profile

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread Lil Peck
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 3:56 AM, byqsri marco.rizze...@gmail.com wrote: Can someone give me any suggestion about it? Many thanks On 1 Giu, 11:08, byqsri marco.rizze...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I'm newbie with Twitter API. I use OAuth to do authentication. Now I have this feature to do : From my

[twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread byqsri
Sorry , perhaps I have not explained well my problem. I have done OAuth authentication, I can use Twitter API. But now I must add a link to my page that if the user click on this link I redirect to twitter's user profile. My problem is that if the user is not logged in twitter he has to do every

[twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread byqsri
Yes , the page where is redirect after login On 3 Giu, 11:47, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:43 AM, byqsri marco.rizze...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry , perhaps I have not explained well my problem. I have done OAuth authentication, I can use Twitter API. But now I

[twitter-dev] basic auth deprecation and GFW

2010-06-03 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi, I'm writing to express a little concern about the upcoming deprecation of basic authentication. I have developed several twitter api apps and I understand the great advantages of using oauth for authentication, but it has one major downfall that makes things complicated here in china. That

[twitter-dev] What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread kimtree
I have no idea to understand condition of status is duplicated. status is duplicated condition is update same tweet in few minutes? or a day? I want to know exact condition. Have any Ideas?

[twitter-dev] Re: Annotations Hackfest wiki page

2010-06-03 Thread mcintyre321
I would like to second aartiles call for better support. My team had a screen cast and were ready to do a remote presentation but we couldn't seem to get the message through (although we tweeted like crazy). Very very disappointing. On May 31, 8:43 pm, aartiles aarti...@gmail.com wrote: I

[twitter-dev] Re: Yet another Failed to validate oauth signature and token while requesting a token

2010-06-03 Thread craiga
Thanks for the reply Taylor. So to get a request token, should I send a POST request with no body? I'm basing my code around the documentation at http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth which says: Go for the gold. Go for header-based OAuth. Fair enough. Under Acquiring a request token it also says:

[twitter-dev] Twitter Infographics Data

2010-06-03 Thread Mo
I'd like to create a series of blog posts that take Twitter application data from various Twitter apps and converts it into something visual. If you have access to data from your own Twitter app that you are willing to share, and that you think can reflect a major trend in the Twitter ecosphere,

[twitter-dev] OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread yml
Hello, I am in the process of writing a python web app that should enable the user to post picture to twitpic using the Oauth Echo authorization mechanism. The application is already able to post tweet using the Oauth authentication so the access_token is available to us in the session. So my

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
As far as an application is concerned, the logged in/logged out state of the Twitter user is immaterial. The REST API is stateless and does not pertain to a session state. Your application should have no concern about the logged in status of a user. Landing on a Twitter profile URL does not

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
We tune the duplicate tweet detection algorithm regularly, so it's difficult to say with any hard rules at what point a tweet will be considered a duplicate -- it's not necessarily time-based and more tuned toward the contents of the last few tweets issued by the user account. If you're use case

[twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread byqsri
My question is another. Substantially I would know if is it possible to do an automatic login to twitter only using OAuth API and withouth know account crediantials of the user. On 3 Giu, 17:55, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: As far as an application is concerned, the

[twitter-dev] Re: Sorry, your query is too complex. Please reduce complexity and try again.

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
How can this query be too complex? http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22for+sale+by+owner%22+near:%22fort+worth%22+within:100mi It's a very simple geo-targeted query. Has Search suffered a frontal lobotomy? These searches used to work before. On May 24, 2:32 am, Cameron Kaiser

[twitter-dev] xAuth Unsupported URL Error

2010-06-03 Thread Craig Hanson
Hello, I recently received authorization from Twitter to use xAuth for authentication on an iphone application. I am using the POST method as described in the docs for xAuth, however, everytime I make my NSMutableURLRequest I get an 'unsupported url' error. The url I'm using the post to looks

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Redirect to user's profile page via API

2010-06-03 Thread Abraham Williams
If you are asking if you can login a user into the twitter.com website using your applications oauth credentials the answer is no. They only way for a user to authenticate with the twitter.com website is by giving their password to twitter.com Abraham On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 09:34, byqsri

[twitter-dev] You both follow feature

2010-06-03 Thread Rich
Hi I've just read about a new Twitter feature coming called 'you both follow'. Are there any plans for an api endpoint for this? Richard

Re: [twitter-dev] You both follow feature

2010-06-03 Thread Abraham Williams
You can always use my Intersect API too: http://github.com/abraham/intersect Abraham On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:18, Rich rhyl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I've just read about a new Twitter feature coming called 'you both follow'. Are there any plans for an api endpoint for this? Richard --

Re: [twitter-dev] Twitter Infographics Data

2010-06-03 Thread Abraham Williams
Nice collection of infographics. Abraham On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 07:43, Mo maur...@moluv.com wrote: I'd like to create a series of blog posts that take Twitter application data from various Twitter apps and converts it into something visual. If you have access to data from your own Twitter

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, I don't understand. Why would Twitter on the one hand do duplicate checking and on the other hand advise people to add some kind of unique string to the tweet to circumvent the duplicate checking? You're basically saying it's okay for an application to automatically add a randomly

Re: [twitter-dev] What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Taylor Singletary
People use Twitter differently. Duplicate prevention is mainly a protection for standard user use cases and spam protection. There is value in programmatic use of Twitter that is outside of typical user experiences, and there are corner cases where duplicate tweets can be useful. I'm not here to

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Get user profile pic by name, unauthenticated?

2010-06-03 Thread Lil Peck
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi?size=bigger we will document this endpoint this week. Revisiting this topic because after trying various solutions for retrieving and saving followers' avatars, I

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread yml
I would greatly appreciate any help. Here it is the latest evolution of this piece of code : class TwitpicOAuthRequest(OAuthRequest): def to_header(self, realm='http://api.twitter.com/'): headers = super(TwitpicOAuthRequest, self).to_header(realm=realm) return

[twitter-dev] Re: What is the condition of status is duplicated?

2010-06-03 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Taylor, It's about creating confusion and uncertainty. Is Twitter not going to suspend a user or an application that generates duplicate content, and appends a randomly generated string of nonsense to each tweet to thwart your duplicate prevention measures? I see this notion of we don't want to

[twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Steve C
I just looked at your code briefly, but I believe the problem is this line: oauth_request = TwitpicOAuthRequest(http_method=POST, http_url=settings.TWITPIC_API_URL, The OAuth Request needs to be signed using the Twitter Endpoint (https://api.twitter.com/1/account/verify_credentials.json), not

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Yann Malet
Thanks Steve for your reply but has you could see in the second code snippet I have posted i have changed this from POST to GET without much success. I had also replaced the http_url has you suggest. One of my question is how does the file should be sent in the ? multipart_encode or urlencode

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Zac Bowling
It may not help fix your problem but I would recommend upgrading to the python-oauth2 library. (Don't be confused by the name; it's not an oauth 2.0 library, but just the next generation of the original oauth 1.0a library that Leah Culver wrote). There are bunch of little issues with the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Yann Malet
Zac, I would love to do this but I can't find any documentation on how to do Oauth Echo with python-oauth2. I would gladly switch to python-ouath2 if I could find some code showing How to use it to post a picture on twitpic : http://dev.twitpic.com/docs/2/upload/

[twitter-dev] Tweetbox with default text

2010-06-03 Thread James Kim
hi- when I make a tweetbox with default text, the Tweet button is grayed out. Only when I click inside the text area of the tweetbox does the Tweet button become clickable. Is there anyway to make it clickable without someone having to click inside the box? The default text doesn't usually need

[twitter-dev] Twitter API blocks/exists does not work

2010-06-03 Thread Jim
Hello All, When accessing the blocks/exists api, I do not get valid reponses: In the console: { request: /1/blocks/exists.json, error: Not found } (example:

Re: [twitter-dev] Tweetbox with default text

2010-06-03 Thread Abraham Williams
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-dev-anywhere/browse_thread/thread/df3ade5d73b98150 Abraham On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 17:30, James Kim ja...@keytweet.com wrote: hi- when I make a tweetbox with default text, the Tweet button is grayed out. Only when I click inside the text area of the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: OAuth Echo problem in python

2010-06-03 Thread Zac Bowling
Hi Yann, I don't see anything obvious that stands out as wrong to me in your implementation from just looking at it, but I'm not sure. I do have OAuth Echo code working for Twitpic but using the OAuth2 library. If you don't figure out an answer, you can hit me up off the list and I'll see if I

[twitter-dev] users/lookup not working for JSON

2010-06-03 Thread Mo
I might be overlooking something, but it seems like users/lookup isn't working. I tried it using my app credentials and got the following message: { errors: [ { code: 17, message: No user matches for specified terms } ] } Just to be sure, I went to

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Infographics Data

2010-06-03 Thread Mo
Thanks Abraham. After I started writing I found a few other compilations, but none of them referenced the originating article and designer, so I kept going. There are a lot of mad geniuses out there. The videos are especially creative. On Jun 3, 10:20 am, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com

[twitter-dev] Annotations with data types

2010-06-03 Thread Harshad RJ
This is the feedback I gave to Twitter as part of the hackfest. Sharing it here, hoping that we could discuss the idea further. Lack of strictly defined data-types is going to be like a dynamic programming language. Every client will have to do it's own type checking. For example, an annotation

[twitter-dev] Annotations in Twitter.com HTML

2010-06-03 Thread Adam
Hi, I was just thinking regarding the newly proposed annotations, would it be possible to embed the annotations into the HTML of Twitter.com? Currently, information such as status id, creation date etc are included in the HTML tags, which allow some interesting Chrome/Firefox plugins to be

[twitter-dev] Re: Annotations with data types

2010-06-03 Thread Harshad RJ
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Harshad RJ harshad...@gmail.com wrote: Suggestions for data-types: int : Integer float : Floating point number url : A well formed URL To add to this list of data-types: str: To force to a string Say, you have an attribute whose label ends with _int. So to