Hello all,
Im am currently making a website that uses the twitter api. I am able
to obtain the background image of my twitter profile using the url
http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=screen_name_here
Which returns something like this:
Hello,
We are in the process of developing a website that uses the Twitter
API.
I understand that the Twitter API is capable of retrieving a user's
profile photo via:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show
Other websites that are using the Twitter API are,
service, due the caching rules employed by
Twitter and S3.
On Jun 30, 6:32 am, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello,
We are in the process of developing a website that uses the Twitter
API.
I understand that the Twitter API is capable of retrieving a user's
profile
.
On Jun 30, 6:32 am, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello,
We are in the process of developing a website that uses the Twitter
API.
I understand that the Twitter API is capable of retrieving a user's
profile photo via:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST
Anyone?
On Jul 1, 4:04 pm, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
So is this wrong if I save the image and user details locally (on our
server) ?
Also, how would it be possible to get the users profile pic
athttp://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2
Anyone?
On Jul 1, 4:17 pm, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
hmmm
On Jun 30, 10:45 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote:
Twitter has said in the past they are more then willing to take care
of the bandwidth for smaller applications but if you go huge they ask
.
If, on the other hand, we saved the images on our server, then our
website would only have to load everything locally instead of having
to connect to the S3 servers.
Which method should be used?
On Jul 3, 4:05 pm, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Anyone?
On Jul 1, 4:04 pm, Christian
Thanks for clarifying this further Stuart. It makes much sense now.
Chris
On Jul 3, 5:05 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/3 Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com:
Currently, we are saving the images onto our server. If we can hotlink
the images to S3. This would save
Hello,
We are developing a website that uses the Twitter API. At current,
when a users gets onto our site, a login screen appears, prompting the
user to enter his/her twitter username and password. Our system/
website does http://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.format
(
Hmm ok just found out that verify_credentials is not rate limited. So
I guess we can log as many users on without limitations...
Correct me if I am wrong.
On Jul 3, 5:22 pm, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello,
We are developing a website that uses the Twitter API
for this method. Is this right?
On Jul 3, 6:48 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/7/3 Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com:
Hmm this is strange. Also Twitter REST API Method: statuses/update
does not have rate limited. Does this mean we can allow an
authenticated twitter user
Creating a new Twitter app.
I am thinking whether I should save the users images (profile and
background) on the local server or hotlink it instead?
Whats the e-etiquette for this?
Does Twitter encourage us to hotlink images?
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Twitter developer documentation and resources:
In the Twitter API, is there a way to grab the list of users at the
following url http://twitter.com/#!/who_to_follow/interests/music ?
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/search is a bit too general. I
need to narrow down my search results based on the interests/music
category.
Does the
Thanks for that CWorster. It also says:
It is recommended that end clients cache this data for no more than
one hour.
Does anyone know how this can be done in Ruby on Rails?
On Oct 21, 7:55 pm, CWorster cwors...@schlimmer.com wrote:
Add:
CWorster, how can I search http://api.twitter.com/1/users/suggestions/music.xml
for a string?
For example, if I wanted to search this list for the string foobar
On Oct 21, 7:55 pm, CWorster cwors...@schlimmer.com wrote:
Add:
, at 6:18 AM, Christian Fazzini wrote:
CWorster, how can I
searchhttp://api.twitter.com/1/users/suggestions/music.xml
for a string?
For example, if I wanted to search this list for the string foobar
On Oct 21, 7:55 pm, CWorster cwors...@schlimmer.com wrote:
Add:
http://api.twitter.com
What API method should I use to search for users based on screen name
or name?
Currently, the API only offers search by screen name and twitter id...
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Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi
How do apps like Twitpic and WeFollow use larger sized profile
images??
The Twitter API's largest profile image is 73x73 (http://
dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name)
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Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc
API updates via Twitter:
How would I get 128x128? i.e. from
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/290187007/n500024856_39228_3390_reasonably_small.jpg
There is no indication of this in the API anywhere
On Dec 13, 4:04 pm, Christian Fazzini christian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
How do apps like Twitpic and WeFollow use larger
/10 9:10 AM, Christian Fazzini wrote:
How would I get 128x128? i.e. from
http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/290187007/n500024856_39228_3390_re...
There is no indication of this in the API anywhere
On Dec 13, 4:04 pm, Christian Fazzinichristian.fazz...@gmail.com
wrote:
How do apps like
://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1079883403/_MG_0016_normal.jpg.
Replacing _normal.jpg with _reasonably_small.jpg (so that it
becomeshttp://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1079883403/_MG_0016_reasonably_sma...)
seems to work.
Tom
On 12/13/10 10:15 AM, Christian Fazzini wrote:
I know that. Thats
, Christian Fazzini wrote:
Ok, how do I connect to the Twitter API to get the reasonably small
size?
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_nameonly
accepts the following options:
mini, bigger, normal
On Dec 13, 5:40 pm, Tom van der Woerdti...@tvdw.eu wrote:
Well
I suspect that the following is rate limited:
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/profile_image/:screen_name
In the above link it says rate limited: false.
My rate limit status says: hourly_limit=150 remaining_hits=0
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