Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
But won't OAuth put an end to this requirement anyway? --Swap On Jan 8, 6:04 am, Brian Hendrickson br...@openmicroblogger.com wrote: On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: By logging intohttp://tweetpass.com/api/doyou automatically store the password somewhere? If so, how is it stored? encrypted? Yes, each user's twitter password is encrypted and stored in the SQL database. It's not on dreamhost, though :-) the server is physically controlled, in a high-end co-location facility in Portland. When an API call comes in with a disposable password, the twitter password is fetched from the database and used to make the call to the twitter.com API Also, the first time a disposable password is used, it is labeled with the incoming hostname and will only be good for that host. API events for that password are visible in the control panel. -- Brian
Dumping, Storing, and Displaying XML data with PHP and MySQL
Hey all,
Like I said in my previous post, what I'm trying to do is essentially
create a site that lists my friends_timeline. With that account, I'm
following a group of individuals in a particular industry.
Instead of hitting the Twitter server each time, I'm attempting to
store friends' tweets in a MySQL database and then display them to
visitors with PHP.
So, first off, I managed to authenticate and pull down the XML just
fine with curl.
As a test, I've stripped the data I want out and am printing it.
//print XML data (temporary)
$xml = simplexml_load_string ($str);
foreach ($xml-status as $status) {
print $status-created_at . br /\n; //timestamp
print $status-text . br /\n; //body
print $status-favorited . br /\n; //favorited (returns true or
false)
print $status-user-name . br /\n; //user's real name
print $status-user-description . br /\n; //user's description
print $status-user-profile_image_url . br /\n; //location of
user's profile pic
print $status-user-url . br /\n; //user's homepage
print $status-id . br /br /\n; //tweet single id
}
And that works just fine.
For the next step, I've created a database and set up its table
structure to match the XML data.
Each line below represents a column in the table. For readability,
I've matched the XML data I've stripped from friends_timeline to
what I set up as its corresponding column in the database.
//auto increment id (not matched with XML) (int)
//created_at - time (text)
//text - body (text)
//favorited - favorited (enum)
//name - name (text)
//description - description (text)
//profile_image_url - avatar (text)
//url - url (text)
//id - twitterid (int)
Now, the part I'm stuck on: (1) I'm not sure how to get that XML data
into my database. Do I have to pass it through an array first? Do I
have to convert it to strings, or have I done that already with $xml
= simplexml_load_string ($str)?
The other issue I'm not sure about: (2) When a visitor comes to the
site, he'll see a friends_timeline from the data in the database,
not directly from twitter's servers. But how do I keep pulling data
from the XML feed and load it into the database automatically? And
what's a good interval to repeat
After the data starts populating my database, I don't think I'll have
too much trouble writing queries to display the content. But I'll
cross that bridge when I come to it. :D
I know this isn't explicitly a twitter API question, and I hope its
not out of place here. But any advice is appreciated. And sorry for
any improper terminology or poor explanations; as you can probably
tell, my web coding acumen isn't extensive.
Thanks in advance for the help!
--Alex
Re: Twitter Users Pictures
Well, I am querying to update user stats (# of followers, location, etc), mostly because the app ranks the lawyers, and lawyers are a ridiculously competitive bunch that find it beyond cool that they get ranked. So since I have the user object, might as well update the URL field in my DB too, right? On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Since you get user objects 100 at a time, you would have to query about an unreasonable number of users for this to be a problem imho. Lextweet.com follows about 700 lawyers. This may grow to 2000. 20 API calls an hour is a problem for the API? I doubt it. If it is, though, I'd be more than happy to reduce the frequency. My point was that there's no need to hit the API at all unless you get a 404 from the avatar URL. Why call the API if you don't need to? Seems like a pointless waste of resources to me. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non- issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548 Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548
Re: Total updates
Is there any way to get the total no of direct messages. Thanks Deepak On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Is there a way to fetch the total updates a user did throught the twitter API? I just need the number? No other messages required! Look at the users/show method. The total updates are part of the fields. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckai...@floodgap.com -- LOADSTANDARD DISCLAIMER,8,1 --
user_timeline with empty id returns... andiojeda
I'm building an app that retrieves the public timeline from several persons. During my tests I noticed something. I called the API with the following URL: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=2id=$username If the $username is empty (I said I was still testing :P) then it will request this http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=2id= Which returns the timeline for andiojeda. Not a killer bug.. but an error message is nicer.
The Page Parameter
Greetings, Just trying to figure out what the page parameter does Im grabbing (and authenticating as me) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1104313400count=200page=1 I get stuff on page 1 but nothing on page 2, just wondering if a) I can find out how many pages are returned, if more than 1, b) what page actually does. Yours Barry Carlyon
user_timeline with empty id returns... andiojeda
I'm building an app that retrieves several timelines from users. In a very early stage of development, I found this feature: If I call the API with the adress http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=2id= the API returns the timeline for andiojeda. This is a no killer, more of an heads up than a complaint. Still, an error message would be nicer.
Re: Dumping, Storing, and Displaying XML data with PHP and MySQL
(1) You'll need to use something like mysql_query(...) to insert the
data (see http://www.tizag.com/mysqlTutorial/mysqlinsert.php for info,
or google around about it)
(2) If you're on a unix/linux system, use a cron job (see
http://www.aota.net/Script_Installation_Tips/cronhelp.php3 or use
google)
If you're on windows, you could probably create some sort of Scheduled
Task to call your script every so often.
As for the frequency I guess that depends on how old you are
willing to let your data get before pulling new data. 5 minutes? 10
minutes? 2 hours? It's an authenticated request, so you are limited
(currently) to 100 per hour, so choose accordingly.
-Chad
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 2:28 AM, thegreatbund...@gmail.com
thegreatbund...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey all,
Like I said in my previous post, what I'm trying to do is essentially
create a site that lists my friends_timeline. With that account, I'm
following a group of individuals in a particular industry.
Instead of hitting the Twitter server each time, I'm attempting to
store friends' tweets in a MySQL database and then display them to
visitors with PHP.
So, first off, I managed to authenticate and pull down the XML just
fine with curl.
As a test, I've stripped the data I want out and am printing it.
//print XML data (temporary)
$xml = simplexml_load_string ($str);
foreach ($xml-status as $status) {
print $status-created_at . br /\n; //timestamp
print $status-text . br /\n; //body
print $status-favorited . br /\n; //favorited (returns true or
false)
print $status-user-name . br /\n; //user's real name
print $status-user-description . br /\n; //user's description
print $status-user-profile_image_url . br /\n; //location of
user's profile pic
print $status-user-url . br /\n; //user's homepage
print $status-id . br /br /\n; //tweet single id
}
And that works just fine.
For the next step, I've created a database and set up its table
structure to match the XML data.
Each line below represents a column in the table. For readability,
I've matched the XML data I've stripped from friends_timeline to
what I set up as its corresponding column in the database.
//auto increment id (not matched with XML) (int)
//created_at - time (text)
//text - body (text)
//favorited - favorited (enum)
//name - name (text)
//description - description (text)
//profile_image_url - avatar (text)
//url - url (text)
//id - twitterid (int)
Now, the part I'm stuck on: (1) I'm not sure how to get that XML data
into my database. Do I have to pass it through an array first? Do I
have to convert it to strings, or have I done that already with $xml
= simplexml_load_string ($str)?
The other issue I'm not sure about: (2) When a visitor comes to the
site, he'll see a friends_timeline from the data in the database,
not directly from twitter's servers. But how do I keep pulling data
from the XML feed and load it into the database automatically? And
what's a good interval to repeat
After the data starts populating my database, I don't think I'll have
too much trouble writing queries to display the content. But I'll
cross that bridge when I come to it. :D
I know this isn't explicitly a twitter API question, and I hope its
not out of place here. But any advice is appreciated. And sorry for
any improper terminology or poor explanations; as you can probably
tell, my web coding acumen isn't extensive.
Thanks in advance for the help!
--Alex
Re: The Page Parameter
Perhaps there are no more than 200 tweets since id 1104313400 so the next page will be blank. Try requesting w/o the since_id and see what happens. -Chad On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:38 AM, BarryCarlyon barrycarl...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Just trying to figure out what the page parameter does Im grabbing (and authenticating as me) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1104313400count=200page=1 I get stuff on page 1 but nothing on page 2, just wondering if a) I can find out how many pages are returned, if more than 1, b) what page actually does. Yours Barry Carlyon
Re: Twitter Users Pictures
It's is good practice to both save the profile_image_url data from the API and save the image locally. This way, if the profile_image_url changes, you have a trigger to recache the image to your local site. I find that page loads are much faster when you can control the images that come through. A good example is that, since Twitter allows avatar images of up to 700k, you may find that a user has saved a 600k animated JPG file, that you might want to convert to a static non-animated version. 700k can spike your traffic, if it's taking up more than all the other images combined. Maybe Alex can answer this, but is Twitter going to be clamping down on avatar images? 700k just seems excessive, when the average is 2k and under. -Greg On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com wrote: Well, I am querying to update user stats (# of followers, location, etc), mostly because the app ranks the lawyers, and lawyers are a ridiculously competitive bunch that find it beyond cool that they get ranked. So since I have the user object, might as well update the URL field in my DB too, right? On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Since you get user objects 100 at a time, you would have to query about an unreasonable number of users for this to be a problem imho. Lextweet.com follows about 700 lawyers. This may grow to 2000. 20 API calls an hour is a problem for the API? I doubt it. If it is, though, I'd be more than happy to reduce the frequency. My point was that there's no need to hit the API at all unless you get a 404 from the avatar URL. Why call the API if you don't need to? Seems like a pointless waste of resources to me. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non- issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548 Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548 -- greg.sch...@gmail.com 920.941.0399
Re: The Page Parameter
That call works for me. Using page=2 does indeed give me the next page or results. Are you sure you have a second page of results? One way to know if you don't is if there are less than the count parameter results returned. For instance, you have count=200. If only 152 updates are included in the results, you know that you don't have another page. You should receive an empty statuses type=array/statuses if you are on a page past where you have any results. On Jan 8, 8:38 am, BarryCarlyon barrycarl...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Just trying to figure out what the page parameter does Im grabbing (and authenticating as me) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1104313400;... I get stuff on page 1 but nothing on page 2, just wondering if a) I can find out how many pages are returned, if more than 1, b) what page actually does. Yours Barry Carlyon
Re: The Page Parameter
I didn't realize earlier you asked what it does so let me explain the pagination functionality. Let's say you have 401 messages from friends in your timeline. As per the API you can only get 200 statuses back with each request. So if you make a request with page=1count=200 you will get the first 200 statuses from your friends_timeline If you make another request with page=2count=200 you will get statuses number 201-400 from your friends_timeline If you then make a final request to page=3count=200 you will get the final (number 401) status from the timeline. When you receive less statuses than you requested you know you are on your last page. On Jan 8, 8:38 am, BarryCarlyon barrycarl...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Just trying to figure out what the page parameter does Im grabbing (and authenticating as me) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1104313400;... I get stuff on page 1 but nothing on page 2, just wondering if a) I can find out how many pages are returned, if more than 1, b) what page actually does. Yours Barry Carlyon
Image Error on Site
I'm noticing that on the image for user: mevasquez55 The image is not displaying on the site, however, clicking through to the image from the site will link you to the correct image. Only reason that I'm posting this to the API list is that the response image url from the API is coming up wrong, possibly because the image does not exist. Please correct me if this needs to go somewhere else. -Greg -- greg.sch...@gmail.com 920.569-9873
Re: Twitter Users Pictures
I too would appreciate someone from Twitter giving us a best practice here. I'd prefer not to cache images locally (lazy) and only store the url. But how does the company feel about paying for bandwidth if I just request user images from the S3 URL in third-party apps? On Jan 8, 10:23 am, greg schoen greg.sch...@gmail.com wrote: It's is good practice to both save the profile_image_url data from the API and save the image locally. This way, if the profile_image_url changes, you have a trigger to recache the image to your local site. I find that page loads are much faster when you can control the images that come through. A good example is that, since Twitter allows avatar images of up to 700k, you may find that a user has saved a 600k animated JPG file, that you might want to convert to a static non-animated version. 700k can spike your traffic, if it's taking up more than all the other images combined. Maybe Alex can answer this, but is Twitter going to be clamping down on avatar images? 700k just seems excessive, when the average is 2k and under. -Greg On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com wrote: Well, I am querying to update user stats (# of followers, location, etc), mostly because the app ranks the lawyers, and lawyers are a ridiculously competitive bunch that find it beyond cool that they get ranked. So since I have the user object, might as well update the URL field in my DB too, right? On Jan 7, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Since you get user objects 100 at a time, you would have to query about an unreasonable number of users for this to be a problem imho. Lextweet.com follows about 700 lawyers. This may grow to 2000. 20 API calls an hour is a problem for the API? I doubt it. If it is, though, I'd be more than happy to reduce the frequency. My point was that there's no need to hit the API at all unless you get a 404 from the avatar URL. Why call the API if you don't need to? Seems like a pointless waste of resources to me. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ On Jan 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Stuart wrote: 2009/1/7 Patrick Minton patr...@lexblog.com: Yes, but once you have the url, why store the actual .png locally? Sure, if a user changes their profile image you may have a broken link, but you can update profile info every hour or so, thus making it a non- issue. I don't think Twitter would see it as a non-issue if your service has more than a few users and you start requesting their details every hour. A better option is to attempt to download their avatar and only request their profile and update it if you get a 404. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/ Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548 Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548 -- greg.sch...@gmail.com 920.941.0399
Re: Total updates
A cursory glance at the API docs makes it appear as if you'd have to page through all of your DMs and count, but the fact that Twitter puts the number of DMs you have on your /home page suggests that value is given some where though I've never seen it. In the very least, the number of directs is obviously something that Twitter keeps cached/on hand. If I haven't missed it somewhere, and there is no API-based way to receive this value, you can always ask for a method ;) @dougw On Jan 7, 10:33 pm, Deepak Goyal hrdeepa...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to get the total no of direct messages. Thanks Deepak On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: Is there a way to fetch the total updates a user did throught the twitter API? I just need the number? No other messages required! Look at the users/show method. The total updates are part of the fields. -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* ckai...@floodgap.com -- LOADSTANDARD DISCLAIMER,8,1 --
Re: The Page Parameter
That makes sense, thanks :-D On Jan 8, 3:31 pm, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't realize earlier you asked what it does so let me explain the pagination functionality. Let's say you have 401 messages from friends in your timeline. As per the API you can only get 200 statuses back with each request. So if you make a request with page=1count=200 you will get the first 200 statuses from your friends_timeline If you make another request with page=2count=200 you will get statuses number 201-400 from your friends_timeline If you then make a final request to page=3count=200 you will get the final (number 401) status from the timeline. When you receive less statuses than you requested you know you are on your last page. On Jan 8, 8:38 am, BarryCarlyon barrycarl...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, Just trying to figure out what the page parameter does Im grabbing (and authenticating as me) http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml?since_id=1104313400;... I get stuff on page 1 but nothing on page 2, just wondering if a) I can find out how many pages are returned, if more than 1, b) what page actually does. Yours Barry Carlyon
Re: alpha test of a new service: Tweetpass
Ideally, yes. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 04:10, Swap rh.swar...@gmail.com wrote: But won't OAuth put an end to this requirement anyway? --Swap On Jan 8, 6:04 am, Brian Hendrickson br...@openmicroblogger.com wrote: On Jan 7, 1:00 pm, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: By logging intohttp://tweetpass.com/api/doyou automatically store the password somewhere? If so, how is it stored? encrypted? Yes, each user's twitter password is encrypted and stored in the SQL database. It's not on dreamhost, though :-) the server is physically controlled, in a high-end co-location facility in Portland. When an API call comes in with a disposable password, the twitter password is fetched from the database and used to make the call to the twitter.com API Also, the first time a disposable password is used, it is labeled with the incoming hostname and will only be good for that host. API events for that password are visible in the control panel. -- Brian -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: HTML payload when expecting JSON response
Someone from Twitter did chime in - Matt works here. I'm sure he's investigating if he said he's investigating. Hang tight! On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:19, FrankieShakes frankma...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering if there has been any progress on this issue... Can anyone at Twitter chime in? For what it's worth... I'm still experiencing the problem. Just had it happen again this morning. Thanks, -f On Nov 27 2008, 7:51 pm, FrankieShakes frankma...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Matt, I received the error message again this morning. It always returns the same error message in the HTML body: --- span style=font-size:1.8em; font-weight:boldSomething is technically wrong./span br / div style=font-size:1.2em;margin-top:2px;color:#b6b6a3 Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. /div br / p style=margin-bottom:10px;text-align:centerimg src=http:// static.twitter.com/images/please_fix.png //p --- I suspect nobody's around at Twitter during Thanksgiving ;) Hoping you can give me some feedback when you're back from the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving! -f On Nov 24, 1:59 pm,FrankieShakesfrankma...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Matt, Thanks for looking into it for me. I went back to my system logs and actually did find a case where it happened to me: http://pastebin.com/m2e1ae375 If you look at the timestamp, this was on Nov. 13 @ 14:53:20 (EST). I also found other occurrences: - 2008-11-12 16:54:16 (EST) - 2008-11-18 15:54:23 (EST) Maybe this will give you some further insight. In my case, however, the server returned a 502 instead of a 500 serve error. Let me know if you come across anything. I'd love to get this resolved. Thanks again, Frank On Nov 24, 12:51 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Frank, Nothing comes right to mind. I'll start looking through logs and see if I can find anything. Is the issue always with /favorites.json? Do you have a general idea when this started, or when you started receiving reports of it? — Matt Sanford On Nov 24, 2008, at 09:45 AM,FrankieShakeswrote: Hey Matt, Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce this myself. I have, however, had quite a few users email me with their logs and each of them has the exact same payload. Any ideas? Thanks, Frank On Nov 24, 12:31 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Frank, A 500 is normally an error on the Twitter side. Can you provide an example account where you're seeing this? Thanks; — Matt (@mzsanford) On Nov 24, 2008, at 09:26 AM,FrankieShakeswrote: Hey everyone, I've been receiving quite a few reports lately where users are experiencing issue with requesting the timeline. I've asked for log reports, and each and every single one of them includes the following: http://pastebin.com/m36523b99 I'm hoping someone could shed light on the situation... I'm not sure what would be causing this (other than load on Twitter's servers). The only thing that concerns me is that I don't know whether other clients are experiencing the same issue -- I'm thinking not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Frank -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: HTML payload when expecting JSON response
Hi Frank, The static HTML you're seeing if from our Apache instance to it is static. I need to track down what request you sent so I can find the root cause. I'll check into 500s from November 27th, but as you can expect the log has a fair number due to scripts trying every URL under the sun. If you have received a 500 recently, and know the URL you requested, it would be most helpful. As for the 502, that's a different error and caused when we can't find an available mongrel to handle your request. We have fewer of those than ever before but at peak times I still see a few creep trhough. We're doing everything we can to fix them. — Matt The other-other API guy Sanford / @mzsanford On Jan 8, 2009, at 10:19 AM, FrankieShakes wrote: Just wondering if there has been any progress on this issue... Can anyone at Twitter chime in? For what it's worth... I'm still experiencing the problem. Just had it happen again this morning. Thanks, -f On Nov 27 2008, 7:51 pm, FrankieShakes frankma...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Matt, I received the error message again this morning. It always returns the same error message in the HTML body: --- span style=font-size:1.8em; font-weight:boldSomething is technically wrong./span br / div style=font-size:1.2em;margin-top:2px;color:#b6b6a3 Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon. /div br / p style=margin-bottom:10px;text-align:centerimg src=http:// static.twitter.com/images/please_fix.png //p --- I suspect nobody's around at Twitter during Thanksgiving ;) Hoping you can give me some feedback when you're back from the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving! -f On Nov 24, 1:59 pm,FrankieShakesfrankma...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Matt, Thanks for looking into it for me. I went back to my system logs and actually did find a case where it happened to me: http://pastebin.com/m2e1ae375 If you look at the timestamp, this was on Nov. 13 @ 14:53:20 (EST). I also found other occurrences: - 2008-11-12 16:54:16 (EST) - 2008-11-18 15:54:23 (EST) Maybe this will give you some further insight. In my case, however, the server returned a 502 instead of a 500 serve error. Let me know if you come across anything. I'd love to get this resolved. Thanks again, Frank On Nov 24, 12:51 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Frank, Nothing comes right to mind. I'll start looking through logs and see if I can find anything. Is the issue always with / favorites.json? Do you have a general idea when this started, or when you started receiving reports of it? — Matt Sanford On Nov 24, 2008, at 09:45 AM,FrankieShakeswrote: Hey Matt, Unfortunately, I haven't been able to reproduce this myself. I have, however, had quite a few users email me with their logs and each of them has the exact same payload. Any ideas? Thanks, Frank On Nov 24, 12:31 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Frank, A 500 is normally an error on the Twitter side. Can you provide an example account where you're seeing this? Thanks; — Matt (@mzsanford) On Nov 24, 2008, at 09:26 AM,FrankieShakeswrote: Hey everyone, I've been receiving quite a few reports lately where users are experiencing issue with requesting the timeline. I've asked for log reports, and each and every single one of them includes the following: http://pastebin.com/m36523b99 I'm hoping someone could shed light on the situation... I'm not sure what would be causing this (other than load on Twitter's servers). The only thing that concerns me is that I don't know whether other clients are experiencing the same issue -- I'm thinking not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Frank
API Changes for January 7, 2009
(Apologies for the belated notification) Fixed: source parameters specified when posting on the web (for example, as part of a link from a Tweet This/Share This On Twitter button) were being ignored. Fixed: /friendship/exists.json was returning true and false as strings, not boolean literals, as they should in a proper JSON response. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Question RE: IP whitelisting
If I request to whitelist an IP range, does it matter which twitter account I use for authentication? Can I switch back and forth among accounts? Patrick Minton IT Director LexBlog, Inc. +1 206 697 4548
Re: Alex Payne (API dev lead) talks security
Hope I didn't step on any toes then. I just get the feeling that a lot people don't get to proper understanding of how hard some of these problems are to solve. Not only technologically but also from the user, third-party, and resource perspectives. On Jan 8, 3:35 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks for pointing that out for folks, Doug. It's not an official resource, of course - there's both fact and opinion expressed in that conversation. That's why I didn't bring it up here. I hope it gives people a good sense of why OAuth has taken so long, what some potential issues with it might be, and that we're pushing forward in good faith that the community will make the experience the best it can be. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:30, dougw igu...@gmail.com wrote: Developers, Alex Payne sat down and discussed security recently. There's been a lot of discussion here on the subject recently so I'm passing along the link: http://citizengarden.com/2009/01/08/episode-10-phish-my-phail-whale/ Well worth the listen. @dougw -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
Re: jquery bug or twitter bug? on api call to /users/show/[username].json
Thanks Matt, that really helped explain things.
I tried to use a straight $.ajax(...).ajaxError to catch the error.
It didn't work.
My solution was to toggle a loader gif before the transaction, set the
timeout in $.ajax to 4000ms, and made a setTimeout at 4100ms to a
function that checked if the loader gif was still shown. If so, it
reported a problem to the user.
This is obviously a very, very ugly hack. But it worked. :D
Look for an update soon about what this little project is all about at
my twitter stream: http://twitter.com/tipjoy
The final mini app that we've made will be a pretty good example of
how to very quickly extract info from the twitter API using jquery.
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com
On Jan 7, 11:07 am, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote:
Hi Ivan,
The jQuery getJSON replaces the trailing ? with a function name
like jsonp4728701093601231 [1]. To test you need to use something more
like:
$ curl 'http://twitter.com/users/show/someBadUsername.json?callback=foo'
foo({request:\/users\/show\/someBadUsername.json?
callback=foo,error:Not found})
It looks like the Twitter API is working correctly. One thing to
note is that the Twitter API is returning HTTP 404. I am pretty sure
the jQuery getJSON method is only calling your function on success
(HTTP 200). I'm not totally sure but the jQuery ajaxError event
handler may help do what you need.
Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
[1] - jsonp + currentTimeMillis
On Jan 7, 2009, at 07:48 AM, Ivan wrote:
Hi,
I'm cofounder of Tipjoy - we just made payment on twitter. Check it
out:http://tipjoy.com/twitter
We have a fun project related to this that I'm working on right now.
I'm using jquery to parse the twitter account info from the API.
Disclaimer: I'm learning javascript JIT.
There is either a bug in my javascript, or the return from the twitter
API is wrong.
Here is some simplified code:
$(document).ready(function(){
var url = http://twitter.com/users/show/; + [the username] +
.json?callback=?;
$.getJSON(url,
function(data){
if( data.error ){
alert(username doesn't exist)
}
else{
alert(that username exists)
}
}
);
});
This code uses jquery's getJSON to grab the account info for a given
username.
The return for a correct username is:
({...});
That wrapping is to pass it to the callback unnamed function.
But this code doesn't work for a username that doesn't exist. The
function doesn't even get called, and the alert doesn't show up.
Putting this is a browser
http://twitter.com/users/show/someBadUsername.json?callback=?
Returns:
{request:\/users\/show\/someBadUsername.json?
callback=?,error:Not found}
Should that be wrapped in ({...}); ? Is that a bug on twitter's side?
Or is there something I'm doing wrong in jquery?
I looked at the code for this project, and it looks like they are
using jquery to access summize in the same way I'm grabbing from the
twitter api.
http://tweet.seaofclouds.com/
http://github.com/seaofclouds/tweet/tree/master/javascripts/jquery.tw...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ivan
http://tipjoy.com
create friendship from URL, NON API Method?
Hello, I have a third party site and want to connect twitter users. I am not having them authenticate, its more of a listing service. Say I have a button that says follow by a profile on my site, and I want to just point at a URL on twitter that would create a friendship after they log in on twitter. So again, 1. I am on the third party site, 2. I click a link pointing at some URL like http://twitter.com/friendships/create/al3x, 3. I login to twitter on twitter.com and 4. I am now on twitter and a friendship has occured Thanks!
Re: create friendship from URL, NON API Method?
I don't think this is supported b/c friendship creation must be initiated by a POST request, meaning that some deliberate action must be taken on the part of the user (e.g. clicking a Follow button on twitter's site). I'm pretty sure this is intentional as it was changed to act this way to prevent automatic follow spamming that was occurring some time ago. I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile on twitter and hope that they login and click follow. -Chad On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a third party site and want to connect twitter users. I am not having them authenticate, its more of a listing service. Say I have a button that says follow by a profile on my site, and I want to just point at a URL on twitter that would create a friendship after they log in on twitter. So again, 1. I am on the third party site, 2. I click a link pointing at some URL like http://twitter.com/friendships/create/al3x, 3. I login to twitter on twitter.com and 4. I am now on twitter and a friendship has occured Thanks!
Re: create friendship from URL, NON API Method?
Thanks jazzy On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this is supported b/c friendship creation must be initiated by a POST request, meaning that some deliberate action must be taken on the part of the user (e.g. clicking a Follow button on twitter's site). I'm pretty sure this is intentional as it was changed to act this way to prevent automatic follow spamming that was occurring some time ago. I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile on twitter and hope that they login and click follow. -Chad On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a third party site and want to connect twitter users. I am not having them authenticate, its more of a listing service. Say I have a button that says follow by a profile on my site, and I want to just point at a URL on twitter that would create a friendship after they log in on twitter. So again, 1. I am on the third party site, 2. I click a link pointing at some URL like http://twitter.com/friendships/create/al3x, 3. I login to twitter on twitter.com and 4. I am now on twitter and a friendship has occured Thanks!
Re: create friendship from URL, NON API Method?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile on twitter and hope that they login and click follow. You can do better. Use the 'tweet this' code examples, programm a 'follow $username' message and explain somewhere that sending out this message will follow that particular user and that this message will not be tweetet out. hth Nicole ps: Resist the temptation to build something inbetween like MrTweet so you can track the actions - people do not like being tracked and will circumvent this step. -- Suche Beta-Tester für Experiment: Journalisten suchen Blogger - http://bloxpert.de/ Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
Re: create friendship from URL, NON API Method?
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Nicole Simon nee...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: I think the best you can do is just point them to the user's profile on twitter and hope that they login and click follow. You can do better. Use the 'tweet this' code examples, programm a 'follow $username' message and explain somewhere that sending out this message will follow that particular user and that this message will not be tweetet out. Interesting idea. It still requires an action on the user's part (clicking Update in this case) and might be more confusing than just clicking follow on somebody else's profile. In any case, it would work also. -Chad ps: Resist the temptation to build something inbetween like MrTweet so you can track the actions - people do not like being tracked and will circumvent this step. -- Suche Beta-Tester für Experiment: Journalisten suchen Blogger - http://bloxpert.de/ Kontakt: http://twitter.com/NicoleSimon // http://mit140zeichen.de/ http://crueltobekind.org // http://beissholz.de skype: nicole.simon / mailto:nee...@gmail.com phone: +49 451 899 75 03 / mobile: +49 179 499 7076
Twitter Badges Requiring Auth
Assuming you guys are aware, but just in case. Seems a change to the API (to remedy the privacy leak, I'm assuming) is now causing Twitter badges on blogs to request API auth.
Re: Twitter Badges Requiring Auth
Yes, we're pushing out a fix for this shortly. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 15:41, Damon C d.lifehac...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming you guys are aware, but just in case. Seems a change to the API (to remedy the privacy leak, I'm assuming) is now causing Twitter badges on blogs to request API auth. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
Twitter badges prompting for Basic Auth login
This is a bug, deployed as part of a related fix to our handling of web sessions vs API authentication. A fix is pending deploy while we resolve some issues with our cluster's internal network. -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
