[twitter-dev] Re: Updating the APIs authentication limiting policy
A timeframe would be very helpful. This is turning out to be a headache as I'm testing. If my own user is having to log in over and over to test my app, I'm quickly hitting the verify_credentials limit (and I'm even using OAuth). I'm getting really frustrated. Jesse On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Bob Thomson stormid...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi Doug, Is there a timescale for rolling back / making the change to the new scheme? We're just putting the finishing touches to moving to OAuth and we're experiencing the issue when using verify_credentials to get the users basic details once we've got the token back from the authentication process. We're experiencing the issue when: 1. Testing our login and authentication processes 2. When users login and logout of our application frequently A heads up on when these changes will be made would be useful. Thanks, Bob On Jul 29, 6:37 pm, Grant Emsley grant.ems...@gmail.com wrote: Locked out of authenticated resources for that account, or will that IP not be able to login to any account? On Jul 29, 1:14 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Ray,For clarity, we will roll back the current restriction of 15 calls per user per hour to account/verify_credentials, and implement the proposed scheme: ... we will limit the total number of unsuccessful attempts to access authenticated resources to 15 an hour per user per IP address. If a single IP address makes 15 attempts to access a protected resource unsuccessfully for a given user (as indicated by an HTTP 401), then the user will be locked out of authenticated resources from that IP address for 1 hour. Thanks, Doug On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Ray rvizz...@testlabs.com wrote: Doug, I'm in a similar situation as that voiced by TinBlue. This change has affected our iPhone App. We also want to encourage you to rollback this change ASAP. When you say This approach is what we are going to take., do you mean rolling back the fix so as not to affect multiple, successful, authorized logins? I'm hopeful that this approach means that our apps will not be affected yet again by changing to a new auth approach. I appreciate you all keeping this thread informed. Ray On Jul 27, 11:23 am, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Thanks to everyone who has contributed feedback. This approach is what we are going to take. Alex will be making this change shortly. I will update this thread when there is timeframe to share. Thanks, Doug On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:52 AM, TinBlue tinb...@gmail.com wrote: What is happening? This rollback is taking far too long for something that has affected a lot of people! On Jul 25, 2:32 pm, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Doug, I would prefer to adopt OAuth instead of writing code for Basic Auth. So, you guys need to move OAuth out of public beta into full production sooner rather than later. :-) I manage 100,000+ Twitter accounts, and I simply cannot take on the support workload of answering user tickets when there's a snag with OAuth beta. I monitor these forums and the API Issues and still see too many OAuth issues being reported to give me a level of comfort that I can safely switch over to OAuth. On Jul 24, 5:46 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Well said Joshua. Dewald, you have identified the risk of using basic authentication. If your users being locked out due to malicious behavior, you should either implement further user-level rate limiting on your side or adopt OAuth. Are there any other glaring omissions in our thinking or should we proceed with this as our solution? Thanks, Doug On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Joshua Perryj...@6bit.com wrote: Jim's concern is valid, fortunately OAuth is immune to brute-force attacks once the access key has been issued to an application. For this reason alone I would urge people to switch to OAuth if at all possible. I would hope (and assume) that if login attempts for an account are locked out that a user would still be able to successfully use an already authorized OAuth driven application. Unfortunately allowing a successful un/pw login while an account is locked out even when the correct password is presented effectively bypasses the whole reason for a lockout in the first place, preventing brute-force password attempts. If an attacker used a dictionary or brute-force attack and the account was locked out after 15 attempts, then they could
[twitter-dev] Submitting Actionscript OAuth Library
I have created an Actionscript class and examples for using OAuth in Flex/Air. How do I go about adding this to the OAuth examples page for others to use?
[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting Actionscript OAuth Library
This is a good question. I'd like to submit the TwitterOAuth library I use for .NET, as well. On Aug 2, 4:15 am, Coderanger d...@coderanger.com wrote: I have created an Actionscript class and examples for using OAuth in Flex/Air. How do I go about adding this to the OAuth examples page for others to use?
[twitter-dev] Re: Showing Twitter profile information on OAuth sites - rate limit problem
Caching the data seems like the right solution. Profile ins't the sort of stuff that changes daily. I would think you could update an individual profile daily (or less). On Aug 1, 7:14 pm, Scott Aikin haw...@gmail.com wrote: I've got an OAuth site that lets people register through Twitter to create a profile and post to my site. When you see comments or posts by these users I show their Twitter profile information and have been retrieving it with users/show. The problem is that I can only show this information 150 times each hour which quickly runs out. What is the best-practices method for accomplishing this? Do I need to cache their profile information and update it via my crontab? I like the real-time nature of my current solution, but with the 150 limit it's just not going to work. Any suggestions?
[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting Actionscript OAuth Library
You can email the links here or to a...@twitter.com Abraham On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 06:34, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: This is a good question. I'd like to submit the TwitterOAuth library I use for .NET, as well. On Aug 2, 4:15 am, Coderanger d...@coderanger.com wrote: I have created an Actionscript class and examples for using OAuth in Flex/Air. How do I go about adding this to the OAuth examples page for others to use? -- 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.
[twitter-dev] Fun140 and Truetwit developers
I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
I think that should be standard. Opt in only (put in Twitter TOS) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.com wrote: I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie Question about signing requests
http://oauth.net/core/1.0/#signing_process On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 17:16, CB claudijo.boro...@gmail.com wrote: I am testing the Twitter API for a Firefox extension I am writing, and trying out the OAuth flow for desktop clients, as described on http://twitterapi.pbworks.com/Authentication. I get stuck in the very first step The application uses oauth/ request_token to obtain a request token from twitter.com. and have a newbie question about the signing. I construct a GET request which looks similar to this: http://twitter.com/oauth/request_token?oauth_consumer_key= my_clients_consumer_keyoauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1oauth_timestamp=my_time_stampoauth_nonce=my_nonce?oauth_signature=missing_this_part??? My question: What string is actually to be signed with HMAC-SHA1 and included as value for oauth_signature? (I am using the sha1 javascript implementation from http://pajhome.org.uk/crypt/md5/) I figure I should encode my client's consumer secret with my client's consumer key, but I only get Failed to validate oauth signature and token. Sorry for this dumb question, but I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Thanks. -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
Agreed. These things have to stop. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Dale Merritt mogul...@gmail.com wrote: I think that should be standard. Opt in only (put in Twitter TOS) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.comwrote: I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
While I laud them for what is obviously a successful campaign, this is getting a little ridiculous... http://screencast.com/t/XB7jPjnBWlr On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Jesse Stay jesses...@gmail.com wrote: Agreed. These things have to stop. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Dale Merritt mogul...@gmail.com wrote: I think that should be standard. Opt in only (put in Twitter TOS) On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.comwrote: I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
[twitter-dev] Replying to direct messages
The direct_messages/new request does not accept any sort of in-reply- to parameter. Am I correct in assuming that a reply to a direct message is sent as a normal status update via statuses/update (with in_reply_to_status_id set and the username in the text). Does Twitter know that in_reply_to_status_id was a direct message and send the reply as a direct message? How do I ensure that a reply to a direct message is correctly sent as a direct message?
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On 8/2/09 10:47 AM, Aaron Brazell wrote: I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. You opt out by unfollowing whomever DM's you. Didn't we have this exact discussion on this very list no more than 3 months ago? -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
I don't get why people are so uptight about direct messages. If you aren't getting value from following someone...or having someone following you - then unsubscribe. FFS the only issue is for people who want to inflate their numbers by having a 'huge' following number. Regards, Dean Collins www.MyTwitterButler.com -Original Message- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dossy Shiobara Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:07 PM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers On 8/2/09 10:47 AM, Aaron Brazell wrote: I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. You opt out by unfollowing whomever DM's you. Didn't we have this exact discussion on this very list no more than 3 months ago? -- Dossy Shiobara | do...@panoptic.com | http://dossy.org/ Panoptic Computer Network | http://panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Dossy Shiobara do...@panoptic.com wrote: You opt out by unfollowing whomever DM's you. Didn't we have this exact discussion on this very list no more than 3 months ago? If it was just me, then I would. Sometimes the people are people I want to follow or are friends that have tried these things out and ended up sending requests inadvertently. It's not fair to penalize the user for that. On the other hand, it's clearly not just me as the responses have already shown. It's clearly something that is much more abusive. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Dean Collins d...@cognation.net wrote: I don't get why people are so uptight about direct messages. If you aren't getting value from following someone...or having someone following you - then unsubscribe. FFS the only issue is for people who want to inflate their numbers by having a 'huge' following number. Everyone has their reasons and it's not the role of this list to question users motives. However, it is the role of this list to bring up issues of quality and QA in general, among other things. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor
[twitter-dev] Re: Replying to direct messages
Direct messages have no concept of threading and in_reply_to_status_id will be ignored. To send a DM use direct_messages/new. Abraham On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 13:35, Duane Roelands duane.roela...@gmail.comwrote: The direct_messages/new request does not accept any sort of in-reply- to parameter. Am I correct in assuming that a reply to a direct message is sent as a normal status update via statuses/update (with in_reply_to_status_id set and the username in the text). Does Twitter know that in_reply_to_status_id was a direct message and send the reply as a direct message? How do I ensure that a reply to a direct message is correctly sent as a direct message? -- 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, Wisconsin, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Aaron Brazell emmenset...@gmail.comwrote: I'm assuming whoever the developer is behind these two sites is also on this list. There is a lot of concern among twiytter users about your apps sending auto dms to people. It's perceived as abusive and spammy and I agree. After getting a tweaked toucan in my DM inbox, I wonder why I have to put up with this. Unfortunately, unlike Facebook, users can't opt out of these spammy things. I've asked Twitter to look into your apps, but I'm also making a personal plea to figure out another way of doing this and allowing people to opt out of messages from your apps. Or better yet, opt in. -- Aaron Brazell web:: www.technosailor.com phone:: 410-608-6620 skype:: technosailor twitter:: @technosailor I think AutoDMs are obnoxious except in a few extremely rare cases. TrueTwit is one of them. You only incur a DM by following someone who wishes to verify the sincerity of your follow, the intent of your follow. Don't like it? Don't follow. Want to cry me a river? Either follow less or suck it up. I'm much more responsive to new, verified followers than I have been to any given new follow in many, many spam-filled months now. I'm tired of seeing twitter email notifications about spambots and bambibots following me. I'd rather you [random person] be irked as a consequence of following me than me be irked sometimes dozens of times a day by bambi spam. Are you following me because you have genuine interest and want to have a conversation? Excellent, then I'm sure the slightly raised barrier of entry won't be a problem for you. TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app I've seen in months. Maybe ever. Thanks- - Andy Badera - and...@badera.us - Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew+badera - This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app I've seen in months. Maybe ever. I particularly love how all you have to do is see one TrueTwit DM, go sign up for TrueTwit yourself, and stop getting those messages ever again! You can follow all the people you want, and you're auto-verified. I got two of those TrueTwit messages when I was auto-following people through Twollo, and just signed up myself. Now I don't get them anymore! Wait... how does that stop spammers, again? It looks like it may just add the step sign up at TrueTwit to the account creation process before you hook up your spambot to the account. Worthless, if you ask me.
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Caliban Darklock cdarkl...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app I've seen in months. Maybe ever. I particularly love how all you have to do is see one TrueTwit DM, go sign up for TrueTwit yourself, and stop getting those messages ever again! You can follow all the people you want, and you're auto-verified. I got two of those TrueTwit messages when I was auto-following people through Twollo, and just signed up myself. Now I don't get them anymore! Wait... how does that stop spammers, again? It looks like it may just add the step sign up at TrueTwit to the account creation process before you hook up your spambot to the account. Worthless, if you ask me. Interesting, I was unaware of that mechanism. (Goes to show you how often I follow these days I guess ... ) That does put a different spin on it. I'd like to see that go away, and then my point stands. --ab
[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax
Joel,
For some reason when I try your code I get a timeout error. Any
suggestions? What you have is exactly what I'm looking for. It could
really help me out a jam, thanks!
On Jul 27, 4:02 pm, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote:
Here is a working example of how to do /track:
$count = 1;
$startparsing = false;
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword1';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword2';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword3';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword4';
// if your keywords have spaces, they must be urlencoded (twitter does not
support phrases, only the first keyword will be used, the space character
and after will be ignored)
foreach ($keyword_needles AS $i=$needle) {
$keyword_needles[$i] = urlencode($needle);
}
$poststr = 'track=' . implode(',', $keyword_needles);
$fp = fsockopen(stream.twitter.com, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo $errstr ($errno)\n;} else {
$out = POST /track.json HTTP/1.1\r\n;
$out .= Host: stream.twitter.com\r\n;
$out .= User-Agent: YourUserAgent\r\n;
$out .= Referer:http://yourdomain.com\r\n;;
$out .= Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n;
$out .= Authorization: Basic .
base64_encode(username:password).\r\n;
$out .= Content-length: . strlen($poststr) . \r\n;
$out .= Connection: Close\r\n\r\n;
$out .= $poststr . \r\n\r\n;
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
if ($startparsing) {
if (trim($line) != '') {
//echo trim($line) . \n;
$tweet_obj = json_decode(trim($line));
// do your stuff here
}
}
else {
// view the header lines: uncomment the below line
//echo trim($line) . \n;
$header_arr[] = $line;
$headercount = count($header_arr)-1;
if (trim($header_arr[$headercount]) == '') {
$startparsing = true;
$count = 1;
unset($header_arr, $headercount);
}
}
if (trim($line) != '') $count++;
}
fclose($fp);
}
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble
with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored
in a file in the format: track = word1, word2, etc..
I tried the following (following a successful fsockopen call to
stream.twitter.api:
POST /track.json track = Palin, #fubar HTTP/1.1 Host:
stream.twitter.com User-Agent: UserAgent Authorization: Basic
cGXybmFzc3TzZGV2OlBhcm5hMzT1Mzl4MDMz Connection: Close
and I am getting the following error code: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
The actual relevant test PHP code is:
$fp = fsockopen($url, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo $errstr ($errno)\n;
} else {
echo file handle: .$fp.br/;
$header = POST /track.json track = $trackTerms HTTP/1.1\r\n;
$header .= Host: stream.twitter.com\r\n;
$header .= User-Agent: UserAgent\r\n;
$header .= Authorization: Basic . base64_encode($twitUsername .
':' . $twitPwd).\r\n;
$header .= Connection: Close\r\n\r\n;
echo $header.br/;
fwrite($fp, $header);
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
echo $line;
fclose($fp);
}
[twitter-dev] Pagination limit for REST API(3200)
When the REST API limit for using count/page reaches 3200 for a particular user account, does it mean that that user account can never use count/page parameters any-more?? Does this limit reset?
[twitter-dev] Re: 2 week advance notice: changes to /friends/ids and /followers/ids
Hi Alex, In two weeks, we'll be addressing this with a change in back-end infrastructure. The page parameter will be replaced with a cursor does this mean the page parameter won't work anymore after the change? What's happening to those calls to the API still containing the page=x parameter? Cheers Ole -- Jan Ole Suhr s...@mobileways.de http://twitter.com/janole
[twitter-dev] Re: Submitting Actionscript OAuth Library
You can email the links here or to a...@twitter.com Ok, my simple class is http://www.coderanger.com/twitcher/OAuth.zip with a sample FlexBuilder project at http://www.coderanger.com/twitcher/OAuthTwitterTest.zip. Comments welcome.
[twitter-dev] Re: track syntax
Other than my username and password, this is an example that I know is
working:
?php
$count = 1;
$startparsing = false;
$keyword_needles[] = 'twitter';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword2';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword3';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword4';
// if your keywords have spaces, they must be urlencoded (twitter does
not support phrases, only the first keyword will be used, the space
character and after will be ignored)
foreach ($keyword_needles AS $i=$needle) {
$keyword_needles[$i] = urlencode($needle);
}
$poststr = 'track=' . implode(',', $keyword_needles);
$fp = fsockopen(stream.twitter.com, 80, $errno, $errstr, 10);
if (!$fp) {
echo $errstr ($errno)\n;
} else {
$out = POST /track.json HTTP/1.1\r\n;
$out .= Host: stream.twitter.com\r\n;
$out .= User-Agent: YourUserAgent\r\n;
$out .= Referer: http://yourdomain.com\r\n;;
$out .= Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n;
$out .= Authorization: Basic . base64_encode
(username:password).\r\n;
$out .= Content-length: . strlen($poststr) . \r\n;
$out .= Connection: Close\r\n\r\n;
$out .= $poststr . \r\n\r\n;
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
if ($startparsing) {
if (trim($line) != '') {
echo trim($line) . \n;
$tweet_obj = json_decode(trim($line));
// do your stuff here
}
}
else {
// view the header lines: uncomment the below line
echo trim($line) . \n;
$header_arr[] = $line;
$headercount = count($header_arr)-1;
if (trim($header_arr[$headercount]) == '') {
$startparsing = true;
$count = 1;
unset($header_arr, $headercount);
}
}
if (trim($line) != '') $count++;
}
fclose($fp);
}
?
The only changes I made was to echo things out and I added a keyword
that I was sure would have volume - twitter. It did take a little bit
of time to connect. I am assuming that that is because of their
current load though, and not the script.
On Aug 2, 2:25 am, Tom Fitzgerald ccexpe...@gmail.com wrote:
Joel,
For some reason when I try your code I get a timeout error. Any
suggestions? What you have is exactly what I'm looking for. It could
really help me out a jam, thanks!
On Jul 27, 4:02 pm, Joel Strellner j...@twitturly.com wrote:
Here is a working example of how to do /track:
$count = 1;
$startparsing = false;
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword1';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword2';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword3';
$keyword_needles[] = 'keyword4';
// if your keywords have spaces, they must be urlencoded (twitter does not
support phrases, only the first keyword will be used, the space character
and after will be ignored)
foreach ($keyword_needles AS $i=$needle) {
$keyword_needles[$i] = urlencode($needle);
}
$poststr = 'track=' . implode(',', $keyword_needles);
$fp = fsockopen(stream.twitter.com, 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
echo $errstr ($errno)\n;} else {
$out = POST /track.json HTTP/1.1\r\n;
$out .= Host: stream.twitter.com\r\n;
$out .= User-Agent: YourUserAgent\r\n;
$out .= Referer:http://yourdomain.com\r\n;;
$out .= Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n;
$out .= Authorization: Basic .
base64_encode(username:password).\r\n;
$out .= Content-length: . strlen($poststr) . \r\n;
$out .= Connection: Close\r\n\r\n;
$out .= $poststr . \r\n\r\n;
fwrite($fp, $out);
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 4096);
if ($startparsing) {
if (trim($line) != '') {
//echo trim($line) . \n;
$tweet_obj = json_decode(trim($line));
// do your stuff here
}
}
else {
// view the header lines: uncomment the below line
//echo trim($line) . \n;
$header_arr[] = $line;
$headercount = count($header_arr)-1;
if (trim($header_arr[$headercount]) == '') {
$startparsing = true;
$count = 1;
unset($header_arr, $headercount);
}
}
if (trim($line) != '') $count++;
}
fclose($fp);
}
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Joseph northwest...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to use the track streaming API, but I'm having trouble
with the syntax. The example shows how to use a tracking list stored
in a file in the format: track = word1, word2, etc..
I tried the following (following a successful fsockopen call to
stream.twitter.api:
POST /track.json track = Palin, #fubar HTTP/1.1 Host:
stream.twitter.com User-Agent: UserAgent Authorization: Basic
cGXybmFzc3TzZGV2OlBhcm5hMzT1Mzl4MDMz Connection: Close
and I am getting the
[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers
Agree that seems like a big hole for bot creators to get by the system. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Caliban Darklock cdarkl...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app I've seen in months. Maybe ever. I particularly love how all you have to do is see one TrueTwit DM, go sign up for TrueTwit yourself, and stop getting those messages ever again! You can follow all the people you want, and you're auto-verified. I got two of those TrueTwit messages when I was auto-following people through Twollo, and just signed up myself. Now I don't get them anymore! Wait... how does that stop spammers, again? It looks like it may just add the step sign up at TrueTwit to the account creation process before you hook up your spambot to the account. Worthless, if you ask me. -- Josh
[twitter-dev] Re: Search is no longer indexing Portuguese (pt) tweets
OMG! Anyone from Twitter Team can reply this issue? What's wrong? What can I do? Help! Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/ On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Vincent Nguyenkureik...@gmail.com wrote: You're right! Maybe it's twitter's bug then! 2009/8/1 caio ariede caio.ari...@gmail.com But why this tweet: http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=ptq=framework+from%3Acaioariede Isn't appear in this search: http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=allq=307.to The language is set to all! Anyone can explain? The http://307.to/ just stopped to catch many tweets from API. Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/ On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Vincent Nguyenkureik...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it's just for you! I think it causes by no one post a link with 307.to in Portugese! Looking at bit.ly or so and you see Twitter works fine! 2009/8/1 caio ariede caio.ari...@gmail.com It's just for me? Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/ On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:52 PM, caio ariedecaio.ari...@gmail.com wrote: The results in english is fine: - http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=allq=307.to Results in portuguese, simple doesn't return nothing: - http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=ptq=307.to But yes, there is portuguese tweets with 307.to string: - http://search.twitter.com/search?lang=ptq=framework+from%3Acaioariede What's the problem? Thx! Caio Ariede http://caioariede.com/
[twitter-dev] Daylight savings
Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt
[twitter-dev] Re: Daylight savings
What do you mean? The time of a tweet? If so, you have the created_at parameter in the status object which is the UTC time of the tweet, and the user object within the status object lists the user's utc_offset. Using that, you're able to get the exact time of the tweet, relative of course to the user's honesty in setting their time zone. On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:43, Matt mattroberts...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to get a user's actual time including daylight savings? Matt -- Internets. Serious business.
[twitter-dev] Python Twitter library (Tango) renamed to Twython
Hey, I figured it's worth dropping a note here about a name change of a Python library I wrote to wrap Twitter's API, as some people from this list took some interest in it when I first announced it. *shrug* The library (Tango) has been renamed to Twython, simply because I realized (and subsequently had a lot of people kindly point out to me) that there are quite a few other notable open source efforts named Tango already. It's still located on GitHub and such, and can be found at the following link. Still looking for anyone who'd like to contribute, definitely needs more documentation! http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython/tree/master As an aside, Tango's currently listed on the API Wiki for Twitter. I'd like to apologize for throwing such a trivial request out there, but could anyone change the name and link there? GitHub doesn't automatically forward repos if you name change, so I see the potential for confusion there... Thanks! - Ryan McGrath
[twitter-dev] set the from [Application]
how do you set the from field when you tweet from the API. Right now mine says from API. I'd like it to say from [My Application] I've set all the fields necessary from the apps settings
