[twitter-dev] Is profile_image supposed to be rate limited?

2011-03-30 Thread Christian Fazzini
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 reset_time=Wed Mar 30 09:37:17 + 2011 reset_time_in_seconds=1301477837

[twitter-dev] How to get bigger profile images

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Fazzini
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) -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter:

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get bigger profile images

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get bigger profile images

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Fazzini
/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

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get bigger profile images

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Fazzini
://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

[twitter-dev] Re: How to get bigger profile images

2010-12-13 Thread Christian Fazzini
, 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

[twitter-dev] Search by screen name or name?

2010-10-25 Thread Christian Fazzini
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... -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi

[twitter-dev] Re: Can the Twitter API grab results from the who_to_follow/interests/music url?

2010-10-23 Thread Christian Fazzini
, 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Can the Twitter API grab results from the who_to_follow/interests/music url?

2010-10-22 Thread Christian Fazzini
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:

[twitter-dev] Can the Twitter API grab results from the who_to_follow/interests/music url?

2010-10-21 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Can the Twitter API grab results from the who_to_follow/interests/music url?

2010-10-21 Thread Christian Fazzini
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:

[twitter-dev] Hotlinking images

2010-10-05 Thread Christian Fazzini
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? -- Twitter developer documentation and resources:

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
. 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

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Logging users on with the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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 (

[twitter-dev] Re: Logging users on with the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Logging users on with the Twitter API

2009-07-03 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-01 Thread Christian Fazzini
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-07-01 Thread Christian Fazzini
. 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

[twitter-dev] Retrieving data from the Twitter API

2009-06-30 Thread Christian Fazzini
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,

[twitter-dev] background image

2009-04-30 Thread Christian Fazzini
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: