e.g. http://api.twitter.com/1/users/profile_image/raffi
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM, WBC <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello all, please forgive a newbie here. > > I would like to accomplish one simple task as described in the > title: get the URL of a user profile picture by user name, in the > context of a Mac application. At this time (and in the foreseeable > future) I have no interest in doing more with the API(s). > > I do not want to ask users to authenticate with their own accounts for > this simple purpose, and I don't want to run into an application-based > rate-limit for my distributed, desktop application. I do plan to > cache and honestly I can't imagine more than 50 calls a WEEK per IP > for this purpose. > > I assume based on this from the FAQ: > > "The REST API does account- and IP-based rate limiting. Authenticated > API calls are charged to the authenticating user's limit while > unauthenticated API calls are deducted from the calling IP address' > allotment." > > ... that the user's IP is the one "deducted" if unauthenticated, which > is perfectly fine. > > But the search API requires authentication: > > http://api.twitter.com/1/users/search.xml?q=username > > I've spent quite a lot of time trying to figure this out already, so a > simple "yes, you can do it and here's the URL" would be very kind. (I > can easily accomplish what I want just by parsing some HTML... but I > thought I'd try to be legit about it ;-) > > > > > > -- > Subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
