Further note that in testing, if I set the count parameter to 1 to return a single record and page through the friends_timeline, I actually get certain pages that return no data. i.e. I can page through a single tweet at a time and still get some responses that are empty. So the API is clearly first retrieving a record (or group of records) and then applying some other filter to it. Its that other filter that I need to figure out so that I can craft the request to ensure that I always get back the requested number of records (except when there are no more records).
I don't see any way to retrieve the TOTAL number of records for a particular query either. If I could know for sure that a shortage of returned records on a particular page was due to some filter and that there truly are more records on subsequent pages, then I could at least use this as a workaround. On Oct 4, 11:48 am, timrnicholson <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, I thought i had this problem solved. I am using a library called > twitteroauth and it was stripping off the "&include_rts=true". I > finally figured out that include_rts needed to be placed into an > arguments array instead of being in the request URL. > > So once I got the include_rts parm passed to Twitter everything > wasworkingfine. Or at least it was in most cases. HOWEVER, I am seeing > now that certain requests areNOTreturning the fullcountparameter > worth of records. There must be SOME filtering that the Twitter API is > doing AFTER it retrieves thecountnumber worth of records. I have > this problem regardless of whether I use the home_timeline which is > supposed to always include everything or whether I use the > friends_timeline with the include_rtsparameter. > > Note that I am trying to requestcount= 25 records,notthe defaultcount= 20 > records. I can see that retweets are being included and I'm > still getting ust 24 records back in certain cases. > > On Sep 9, 10:06 am, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey Tim, > > > When I run: > > curl > > "http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/RWW.xml?count=20&page..."; > > > I get the expected result of 20 statuses one retweet (from > > @ConanOBrien). When you make the request are you running it like I am > > or are you using a library? > > > To answer your query about thecountparameter. The behavior is this: > > we will try and return up to 'count' statuses in one request, wherecountis > > equal to all statuses in the timeline before any filtering of > > retweets. So, if you request 20 statuses without retweets, and 1 of > > the statuses is a retweet, you will get 19 statuses back. > > > Hope that helps explain what is going on, > > Matt > > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 7:30 AM, timrnicholson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > I'm properly calling api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline with > > > include_rts as true and retweets arenotbeing included. The only > > > stream that I can get to return retweets (because it doesn't even > > > require the include_rtsparameter) is the home_timeline. > > > > For example, the following doesn't work: > > >http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/RWW.xml?count=20&page... > > > > The worst part about this isnotjust that the include_rtsparameter > > > doesn't work for including retweets, the returned timeline doesn't > > > even have 20 records in it when there are retweets. In other words, > > > the API isnotonly ignoring the include_rtsparameterbut itsnot > > > even returning the right number of requested records when it thinks > > > include_rts is false. > > > > This totally screws up my pagination methods because I'm getting less > > > than the expected number of records back, so my app thinks there's no > > > more timeline to be retrieved. I certainly don't want to just always > > > include a "next page" link when there really aren't any more records > > > left. > > > > Also, thecountparameteris being ignored in all of this as well, but > > > I've latched on to another thread about that. > > > > On Aug 30, 12:50 pm, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >> Hi Timmerk, > > > >> Make sure you're using api.twitter.com as the host for all of your API > > >> requests. The proper API isnotat twitter.com -- it's at api.twitter.com. > > >> Include_rts willnotwork against twitter.com (and one day you'll find all > > >> of your requests rejected.) > > > >> Also, please note that proper API routes include a version component. The > > >> call you're making should > > >> be:http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=NuWa... > > > >> Taylor > > > >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:43 AM, timmerk <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > I'm having the same issue - you can see an example here: > > > >> >http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=NuWaveGOV&;... > > > >> > As you can see, there are no retweets included in the JSON. > > > >> > Thanks! > > > >> > On Aug 25, 2:30 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > Hey Hen, > > > >> > > Are you still finding retweets arenotshowing up for you? > > > >> > > Matt > > > >> > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:19 AM, henasraf <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > > Matt, > > >> > > > Any user I show in my app wouldnotshow retweets, even if they > > >> > > > surely > > >> > > > exist. You can see for yourself athttp://wosaic.net/twitguin(still > > >> > > > early stages, don't mind it being a bit lame), see any user such as > > >> > > > myself athttp://wosaic.net/twitguin/user/henasraf;youmaygo > > >> > > > through pages and see that no retweets ever show; they should be > > >> > > > color > > >> > > > coded in orange. You can compare tohttp://twitter.com/henasraftosee > > >> > > > retweets that should show. > > > >> > > > Thanks, > > >> > > > Hen > > > >> > > > On Aug 19, 11:34 pm, Matt Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hey, > > > >> > > >> Retweets should be included if they exist in the users timeline > > >> > > >> when > > >> > you > > >> > > >> request them. For example if you request 20 Tweets of the > > >> > > >> timeline and > > >> > one > > >> > > >> of those last 20 was a retweet - it will be included. If one of > > >> > > >> the > > >> > last 20 > > >> > > >> Tweets wasn't a retweet it won't be included, even if include_rts > > >> > > >> is > > >> > true. > > > >> > > >> Does this explain what is happening in your app? > > >> > > >> Ifnotcould you give an example of a username which shows this > > >> > problem. > > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> > > >> Matt > > > >> > > >> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 1:24 PM, henasraf <[email protected]> > > >> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hey all, I'm using user_timeline to fetch the timeline of a > > >> > > >> > user in > > >> > my > > >> > > >> > app. Problem is, it doesn't include native Retweets, even though > > >> > I've > > >> > > >> > set include_rts to true. The docs clearly say it should work, > > >> > > >> > but it > > >> > > >> > doesn't. What could be the problem? Thanks in advance :) > > > >> > > >> -- > > > >> > > >> Matt Harris > > >> > > >> Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris > > > >> > > -- > > > >> > > Matt Harris > > >> > > Developer Advocate, > > >> > > Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris-Hidequoted > > >> > text - > > > >> > > - Show quoted text - > > > >> > -- > > >> > Twitter developer documentation and > > >> > resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > >> > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > >> > Issues/Enhancements Tracker: > > >> >http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > >> > Change your membership to this group: > > >> >http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en-Hidequoted > > >> > text - > > > >> - Show quoted text - > > > > -- > > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > > Issues/Enhancements > > > Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > > Change your membership to this > > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en > > > -- > > > Matt Harris > > Developer Advocate, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/themattharris-Hide quoted > > text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
