Dmitri, I believe such request still counts against your usage limit. Just to remember to stay within the boundaries :)
On Feb 18, 10:15 pm, Dmitri Snytkine <d.snytk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already > available > Turns out I can easily get user's profile as json or xml without > using oAuth or API > > Very simple, like this: > > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/MythBusters.json > This is just great! > > On Feb 18, 3:36 pm, Dmitri Snytkine <d.snytk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: > > what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, > > background image, color settings and avatar. > > I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's > > settings. > > > This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page > > that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be > > static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use > > last-modified and etag headers. > > > Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I > > have to access thehttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json > > and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do > > I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest > > profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't > > want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. > > > Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same > > way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to > > use API
