[twitter-dev] Re: How to track a phrase in Streaming API?

2009-07-14 Thread Matt Sanford 


Hello,

I think the problem is missing quotes and URL encoding. Try curl  
… -d track=harry+potter


Thanks;
 – Matt Sanford / @mzsanford
 Twitter Dev

On Jul 14, 2009, at 7:29 AM, owkaye wrote:



How do I track a phrase like harry potter?

The docs only show how to track individual words, not
phrases ... and this curl command doesn't work properly
because it finds tweets with harry and not potter:

curl -o /home/ken/twitterStreamJSON.txt
http://stream.twitter.com/track.json -u username:password -d
track=harry potter,


Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Re: How to track a phrase in Streaming API?

2009-07-14 Thread owkaye 

  How do I track a phrase like harry potter?
 
  The docs only show how to track individual words, not
  phrases ... and this curl command doesn't work properly
  because it finds tweets with harry and not potter:
 
  curl -o /home/ken/twitterStreamJSON.txt
  http://stream.twitter.com/track.json -u
  username:password -d track=harry potter,

 I think the problem is missing quotes and URL
 encoding. Try curl … -d track=harry+potter

Thanks for the suggestion Matt but that doesn't work either.  
Any other ideas?


Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Re: How to track a phrase in Streaming API?

2009-07-14 Thread John Kalucki 

Follow the example on the Streaming API wiki. If you insist on doing
this entirely on the command line, which will not work for more than a
handful of predicates, you can do: curl localhost:8080/track.xml\?
track=Harry,Potter

Currently track works only on keywords, not phrases. You can search
for Harry OR Potter, but not Harry AND Potter. It's probably best to
track on the lowest frequency word in the phrase, to avoid the rate
limit.

-John Kalucki
twitter.com/jkalucki
Services, Twitter Inc.



On Jul 14, 8:26 am, owkaye owk...@gmail.com wrote:
   How do I track a phrase like harry potter?

   The docs only show how to track individual words, not
   phrases ... and this curl command doesn't work properly
   because it finds tweets with harry and not potter:

   curl -o /home/ken/twitterStreamJSON.txt
  http://stream.twitter.com/track.json-u
   username:password -d track=harry potter,

  I think the problem is missing quotes and URL
  encoding. Try curl … -d track=harry+potter

 Thanks for the suggestion Matt but that doesn't work either.  
 Any other ideas?

 
 Owkaye

[twitter-dev] Re: How to track a phrase in Streaming API?

2009-07-14 Thread owkaye 

 Currently track works only on keywords, not phrases. 

This answers my question very clearly, thanks John!

I'm storing the data in a local database anyways, so I can 
just do a phrase search of my data and delete the records I 
don't need.  

More data than necessary gets transmitted from Twitter this 
way, but I guess there's no way around it -- and for me the 
end result is the same anyways -- so it looks like I can 
proceed successfully now.

Thanks again for everyone's help, I'll be back when I have 
new questions ... :)

Owkaye