[twitter-dev] problem getting acurate remaining-hits with rate_limit_status
My program sends is using rate_limit_status.xml to get the number of remaining hits until the account limit is exceeded. My problem is that it always seems to return the same value: 150. Even once I have already hit the limit the service continues to show 150 hits left. I am thinking that it is returning the hits remaining for the IP address and not the user account I need. Any ideas? I've been trying to figure this out all night but I haven't been able to find to many examples of the rate_limit_status.xml service. Here is my code: string logon=this.UserName + : + this.Password; logon=System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes (logon)); //request HttpWebRequest req=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url); req.Timeout=System.Convert.ToInt32(gen.Get(twitterTimeout)); req.Headers.Add(Authorization,Basic + logon); req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue=false; HttpWebResponse resp=(HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse(); StreamReader sr=new StreamReader(resp.GetResponseStream (),Encoding.GetEncoding(1252)); //get results result=sr.ReadToEnd(); resp.Close(); The code XML response from twitter is: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? hash remaining-hits type=integer150/remaining-hits hourly-limit type=integer150/hourly-limit reset-time-in-seconds type=integer1257786363/reset-time-in- seconds reset-time type=datetime2009-11-09T17:06:03+00:00/reset-time /hash
[twitter-dev] .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks
Not many .NET examples out there... here it is... have fun...
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace Tweeter
{
public class TwitterTools
{
#region Members
#endregion
public TwitterTools()
{
this.Initialize();
}
public TwitterTools(string userName,string password)
{
this.UserName=userName;
this.Password=password;
this.Initialize();
}
private void Initialize()
{
}
public void Dispose()
{
}
#region Properties
public string UserName=null;
public string Password=null;
#endregion
#region Methods
public int Update(string message)
{
int retval=0;
string code=null;
string url=http://twitter.com/account/
rate_limit_status.xml; //gen.Get(twitterRateService);
string result=null;
try
{
result=this.Request(url + ?
,null
,GET
);
// gen.Test(result);
}
catch
{
result=null;
}
if(result==null)
retval=2;
else
{
//parse results
try
{
XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(result);
XmlNodeList nodes=doc.SelectNodes(/hash/
remaining-hits);
int remaining=System.Convert.ToInt32
(nodes[0].InnerText);
if(remaining=0)
retval=2;
nodes=null;
doc=null;
}
catch
{
retval=2;
}
if(retval!=2)
{
StringBuilder txt=new StringBuilder();
txt.Append(status=);
txt.Append(message);
code=txt.ToString();
try
{
string ret=this.Request(http://
twitter.com/statuses/update.xml//gen.Get(twitterUpdateService)
,code);
if(ret!=null)
retval=1;
else
retval=0;
}
catch
{
retval=0;
}
}
}
return retval;
}
private string Request(string url,string code)
{
return this.Request(url,code,POST);
}
private string Request(string url,string code,string
method)
{
byte[] bytes=null;
if(code!=null)
bytes=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes
(code);
string logon=null;
if(code==null)
logon=Basic + this.UserName + : +
this.Password;
else
logon=this.UserName + : + this.Password;
logon=System.Convert.ToBase64String
(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(logon));
//request
HttpWebRequest req=(HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create
(url);
req.Timeout=1;
//req.Timeout=System.Convert.ToInt32(gen.Get
(twitterTimeout));
if(code==null)
req.Headers.Add(Authorization,logon);
else
req.Headers.Add(Authorization,Basic +
logon);
req.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue=false;
if(code!=null)
{
req.ContentType=application/x-www-form-
urlencoded;
req.Method=method;
req.ContentLength=code==null ? 0 :
bytes.Length;
Stream trans=req.GetRequestStream();
[twitter-dev] Re: .NET Class for handling Twitter Updates and Rate Checks
I sent it to the twitter people to post on their site but they asked
me to post here as well... I was like... okay
On Nov 10, 5:53 pm, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote:
I for one tend to prefer Google Code or Code Plex for posting lengthy
chunks of code intended for resharing ...
Also, LinqToTwitter is a pretty solid reference implementation ...
FWIW. (Not affiliated, just a user.)
∞ Andy Badera
∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice
∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
∞ Google me:http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:49 PM, ch...@stuffworldwide.com
ch...@stuffworldwide.com wrote:
Not many .NETexamples out there... here it is... have fun...
using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
namespace Tweeter
{
public class TwitterTools
{
#region Members
#endregion
public TwitterTools()
{
this.Initialize();
}
public TwitterTools(string userName,string password)
{
this.UserName=userName;
this.Password=password;
this.Initialize();
}
private void Initialize()
{
}
public void Dispose()
{
}
#region Properties
public string UserName=null;
public string Password=null;
#endregion
#region Methods
public int Update(string message)
{
int retval=0;
string code=null;
string url=http://twitter.com/account/
rate_limit_status.xml; //gen.Get(twitterRateService);
string result=null;
try
{
result=this.Request(url + ?
,null
,GET
);
// gen.Test(result);
}
catch
{
result=null;
}
if(result==null)
retval=2;
else
{
//parse results
try
{
XmlDocument doc=new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(result);
XmlNodeList nodes=doc.SelectNodes(/hash/
remaining-hits);
int remaining=System.Convert.ToInt32
(nodes[0].InnerText);
if(remaining=0)
retval=2;
nodes=null;
doc=null;
}
catch
{
retval=2;
}
if(retval!=2)
{
StringBuilder txt=new StringBuilder();
txt.Append(status=);
txt.Append(message);
code=txt.ToString();
try
{
string ret=this.Request(http://
twitter.com/statuses/update.xml//gen.Get(twitterUpdateService)
,code);
if(ret!=null)
retval=1;
else
retval=0;
}
catch
{
retval=0;
}
}
}
return retval;
}
private string Request(string url,string code)
{
return this.Request(url,code,POST);
}
private string Request(string url,string code,string
method)
{
byte[] bytes=null;
if(code!=null)
bytes=System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes
(code);
string logon=null;
if(code==null)
logon=Basic + this.UserName + : +
this.Password;
else
logon=this.UserName + : + this.Password;
logon=System.Convert.ToBase64String
(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(logon));
//request
HttpWebRequest req
