My apologies. I meant "WITHOUT using (a rate-limited call or one with authentication)." In other words, I want an unauthenticated and rate- unlimited way to translate an id into a screen name.
FWIW, I plan to cache the screen name for a given id for a reasonable period of time, but I may need to translate lots of ids in a short period of time. I'd be happy to use a scheme that let me subscribe to screen name changes for specified ids, but I didn't see anything like that in the api. (That would be less overhead because screen names don't change very often.) In almost every case, I'm translating user ids to scree names I can produce links like http://twitter.com/al3x (which spews html) given a user_id. That's why I'd be (mostly) satisfied with a url format in terms of user_ids to accomplish the same thing. Unfortunately, my users aren't authenticated. Thanks, -andy On Sep 28, 10:31 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Uh, I guess it was unclear from the subject/body split of the question > what exactly was meant... > > "How do I get the user_id for a screen_name WITHOUT using a > rate-limited call or one with authentication." > > ...can be read: > > How do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using a rate-limited call? > And, how do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using one with > authentication. > > ...or, it could be read: > > How do I get the user_id for a screen_name without using a rate-limited call? > Or, how do I get the user_id for a screen_name using one with authentication. > > I read it the first way, due to the subject/body split... > > Boolean algebra, ftw? > > -Chad > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > You can make any of the REST API calls with authentication. > > Abraham > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 22:10, Andy Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> using a rate-limited call or one with authentication. > > >> I'd be (mostly) satisfied with an analog tohttp://twitter.com/al3xin > >> terms of user-id. > > > -- > > Abraham Williams | Community Evangelist |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. > > Sent from Madison, WI, United States- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
