very true. except that i am allowing direct messages in an app and a user would select a friend to send a dm to from a dropdown menu. having the ids lets me programatically continue, but the user is not able to make an association between a numeric id and the screen_name its connected to.
sull On Jun 18, 12:47 am, Developer In London <[email protected]> wrote: > 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),' ((!.-' > .
