why would you need the screen_names of all the friends? usually you can use the twitterID for making any API calls
2009/6/18 sull <[email protected]> > > i actually started out using statuses/friends until i realized that it > was only 100 results per call. > then i would have to go into paging. plus i didnt need the other data > that is returned. > so then i decided that their must be a more direct call to make. i > suppose not. > > so if i return to statuses/friends approach, i would have to determine > how many pages of friends exist for that user so i can import all the > friends. it would have been helpful if in the data response, the > total # of pages was listed as well. but i cna calculate based on > <friends_count>###</friends_count>. > > any other thoughts? is this what others are doing to get complete > friends list? > > thanks. > > sull > > On Jun 17, 10:30 pm, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > statuses/friends would probably be faster. > > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 20:11, sull <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > i found it odd that i cannot seem to get a simple API response with > > > all of a user's friends screen_names, only user ids. do i need to > > > make a request from users/show after i do friends/ids ? am i missing > > > a direct call or more efficient method? > > > > > thanks. > > > > -- > > Abraham Williams | Community |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. > -- cashflowclublondon.co.uk ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' .
