That's great!! I'm currently using the suggested method (get IDs, then do users/show for each of them) and it's horrendously slow and cumbersome. It'd be great if you could get a 100 user objects at the time, based on 100 ids you provide..
On 10/14/09 7:30 PM, "Chad Etzel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree. I'm lobbying the team for something like this. > -Chad > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Josh Roesslein <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah we really need a way to bulk request user payloads by giving a list of >> IDs. >> >> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Are you suggesting I should retrieve the 2k users 1 at a time from >>> users/show once I have the ids? I'd essentially like to do this, but >>> 100 at a time. >>> >>> I know I can get the 7000 ids in 2 calls (1 even without the cursors) >>> - but I actually want the whole user objects.. >>> >>> Tim. >>> >>> On Oct 15, 2:56 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> If you are pulling down the entire social graph, why not use the >>>> social graph calls which would deliver all 7000 ids in 2 calls? >>>> >>>> You can also parallelize this process by looping through different >>>> users on each thread instead of using each thread to grab a different >>>> page/cursor of the same user. >>>> >>>> Regarding the code issue you submitted, if you have the users cached >>>> locally, you could use the social graph methods to determine the >>>> missing/new 2k users pretty quickly using the social graph methods and >>>> comparing ids. >>>> >>>> -Chad >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Chad, >>>> >>>>> Statuses/followers. >>>> >>>>> I've just timed another attempt - it took 25 minutes to retrieve 17957 >>>>> followers with statuses/followers. >>>> >>>>> Is there anything I can elaborate on in the filed issue to make it >>>>> clearer? >>>> >>>>> Tim. >>>> >>>>> On Oct 15, 2:42 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Hi Tim, >>>> >>>>>> You said "Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for me." >>>>>> Can you explain what you meant by that? >>>> >>>>>> Are you using the friends/ids, followers/ids methods or the >>>>>> statuses/friends, statuses/followers methods? >>>> >>>>>> -Chad >>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>>> Hi'ya, >>>> >>>>>>> I'm migrating my code to use cursors at the moment. It's frustrating >>>>>>> that calls need to be synchronous rather than how paged calls could be >>>>>>> asynchronous. Retrieving 7000 followers just took > 20 minutes for >>>>>>> me. >>>> >>>>>>> I filed an issue that proposes a solution here: >>>>>>> http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=1078 If you >>>>>>> retrieve friends or followers, please take a look and give it a star >>>>>>> if it's important to you. >>>> >>>>>>> If anyone can suggest a work around for this, I'd be happy to hear it. >>>> >>>>>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>>>>> Tim. >> >> >> >> -- >> Josh >>
