[twitter-dev] Re: 404 Errors on friends and followers using cursors
I am now seeing this on some of my own accounts - has any movement or
fix been applied?
here is the url i'm trying:
curl http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/codebear.json -- returns
[]
curl http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/manta.json -- returns
{request:/statuses/friends/manta.json,error:Not found}
On Dec 28 2009, 2:42 pm, Mageuzi mage...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry to keep bringing this up, but this is still causing problems for
me. Is there any follow-up as to what the issue is? Thanks in
advance.
On Dec 22, 10:06 pm, Mageuzi mage...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there an update to the status of this issue? A user of my program
reported a problem that ended up being this. While trying to iterate
through:http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/friends/oevl.xml
Cursor 1274505087418535016 returned fine and contained a next_cursor
value of 1267920196862230269. That value returned a 404.
On Dec 8, 1:32 pm, Ammo Collector binhqtra...@gmail.com wrote:
If you get the following URLs and continue to using the next_cursor,
you receive incorrect 404s:
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/debra_bee.xml?cursor=130554434315...
Any ideas?
[twitter-dev] Internal Server Error 500 on using the http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_background_image.format API
Hi All,
I am trying to use this API using OAuth from my C++ .NET client.
How can get additional information about this error so that I can try
to fix it.
this-generateSignature();
WebRequest^ myRequest = WebRequest::Create(http://twitter.com/
account/update_profile_background_image.xml);
myRequest-Method = POST;
String^ boundary = this-CreateBoundary();
myRequest-ContentType = multipart/form-data; boundary= + boundary;
Encoding^ encoding = Encoding::ASCII;
String^ requestString = L--+boundary+L\r\n+LContent-Disposition:
form-data; name=\image\; filename=\test.JPG\ + L\r\n+LContent-
Type: image/jpg+L\r\n\r\n;
Stream^ requestStream = myRequest-GetRequestStream();
requestStream-Write(encoding-GetBytes(requestString),0,encoding-
GetBytes(requestString)-Length);
FileInfo^ file = gcnew FileInfo(LC:/Documents and Settings/vikramp/
My Documents/My Pictures/Picasa Exports/Picasa Export/test.JPG);
FileStream^ myImage = file-OpenRead();
arrayByte^ ByteArray;
if(myImage-CanRead)
{
ByteArray = gcnew arrayByte(safe_castint(myImage-Length));
myImage-Read( ByteArray, 0,safe_castint(myImage-Length));
requestStream-Write(ByteArray,0,safe_castint(myImage-Length));
}
requestStream-Write( encoding-GetBytes(L\r\n-- + boundary +
L--),0,encoding-GetBytes(L-- + boundary + L--)-Length);
requestStream-Close();
myImage-Close();
Stream^ data = myRequest-GetResponse()-GetResponseStream();
Just in case some one needed the code.
All I am doing here signing the request with the default parameters
(image parameter no included).
The I write the multipart data.
Please help me out or direct me to a link which gives a information
about using the API.
[twitter-dev] Please Help !!! How do i build OAuth based request for the update_profile_background_image.format API
Hi All, Please let me know what HTTP parameters need to be included for this API. Should the 'image' parameter considered for the OAuth signature base? How should value for the image parameter be populated? Should be the byte array of the image file or something else? Please help me out. If possible give me an example request.
[twitter-dev] Is there a way to auto-update my status?
I have a WordPress blog to which I and other writers add new posts frequently. After I (or my writers) post a new post, I would like my status to automatically be updated with the new post. I've looked throught the RESTful API and it looks like there is a status update call, but it looks like I would have to create a Twitter application to make it work (which seems a bit extreme to me). Is there a way to simply pass twitter some authentication data and my new status and have it automatically update my status? Thanks.
Re: [twitter-dev] Is there a way to auto-update my status?
You can auth. via BasicAuth. Its really simple. No need to create an App. Am 09.01.2010 um 17:57 schrieb jpatterson je...@squarecompass.com: I have a WordPress blog to which I and other writers add new posts frequently. After I (or my writers) post a new post, I would like my status to automatically be updated with the new post. I've looked throught the RESTful API and it looks like there is a status update call, but it looks like I would have to create a Twitter application to make it work (which seems a bit extreme to me). Is there a way to simply pass twitter some authentication data and my new status and have it automatically update my status? Thanks.
Re: [twitter-dev] Is there a way to auto-update my status?
After a few seconds of Googling I cam across this: http://blog.victoriac.net/blog/twitter-updater I'm sure there are a number of other plugins on http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 11:34, Lukas Müller webmas...@muellerlukas.dewrote: You can auth. via BasicAuth. Its really simple. No need to create an App. Am 09.01.2010 um 17:57 schrieb jpatterson je...@squarecompass.com: I have a WordPress blog to which I and other writers add new posts frequently. After I (or my writers) post a new post, I would like my status to automatically be updated with the new post. I've looked throught the RESTful API and it looks like there is a status update call, but it looks like I would have to create a Twitter application to make it work (which seems a bit extreme to me). Is there a way to simply pass twitter some authentication data and my new status and have it automatically update my status? Thanks. -- Abraham Williams | #doit | http://hashtagdoit.com Project | Intersect | http://intersect.labs.poseurtech.com Hacker | http://abrah.am | http://twitter.com/abraham This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Madison, WI, United States
[twitter-dev] Streaming API - AND between filter keywords
Hi folks, Is there a way by which I can get streaming results tracking a combination of words. For example, is it possible to get streaming results which track the keyword San Francisco i.e, San AND Francisco. I could track San OR Francisco and then filter out for San AND Francisco but the results for San are very huge. /Amitabh Follow Twaller @mytwaller
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter with Google Visualization
HI Peter, Ok, so what I understand you saying is that Twtiter only keeps 7 days or 3200 results available per person? So if I want trending over time (more than 7days) I'm going to have to call that data and then store it in a DB? Right now I am dabbling in Python as a way to retrieve, parse and write data. thanks jason On Jan 7, 4:52 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kidd Main reason to localize the data is for user experience. If twitter search slows down, you may have page loads waiting for the content you need. Also, you will get only 3200 results, or a historical snapshot of 7 days from a query, so you run the risk of losing data outside. It all depends on what data you need for how long. Now, if twitter search data on the fly works good, you basically need to 1. retrieve the data from twitter search (probably json) - I use jQuery so it would be something like thishttp://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.ajax 2. parse the response result, convert it to proper JSON google visualizations wants for consumption to create a google.visualization.DataTable 3. create a view of the data table, specifying the information you want to display on the graph 4. create the visualization (areaImageChart, annotatedTimeline, etc) Here is an example from Google where the JSON is hardcoded, but aside from getting and parsing the data from twitter, this should show you what you need.http://www.mail-archive.com/google-visualization-...@googlegroups.com... Cheers Peter
[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?
Twaller.com is a service which categorizes location based tweets particularly useful to travelers. You can check us out at www.twaller.com. We search tweets based on some combinations of keywords and then filter them out using language processing algorithms. If you would like access to the data using a Web API, do let us know. Amitab follow Twaller @mytwaller On Jan 8, 7:49 am, @epc epcoste...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 8, 9:29 am, GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com wrote: No one? I think you would be better off consuming the firehose, geocode the tweets yourself, and throw away any that aren’t in regions you care about, caching the rest for a period of time. The thing to remember about geocoding of tweets is that until very recently the geocoding was solely by the location field in a user’s profile. True geocoding of individual tweets is very recent and depends on the user enabling geo coding, and on the user agent posting the lat/lon with the tweet. So the firehose *does* contain the geo field, it's just mostly empty because most clients don’t populate it yet. So if the geo field is empty you’d have to geocode based on the location field which is a bit of a hairball and may contain any data up to 30 bytes. Alternately, do the cron job thing but enlarge the regions you’re searching on (search on the top N cities or metros for example, not 200,000 coordinates). Cache the data, and accept that it won’t be absolutely up to date (it’s already lost a lot of precision since the location field is completely arbitrary and even if it is a city or lat/lon pair, does not necessarily represent where the twitter user was at that moment in time). -- -ed costello
Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API - AND between filter keywords
Currently no. What I would do is search for Francisco (a much rarer term), and then manually check for San Francisco on your end. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Amitab hiamita...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way by which I can get streaming results tracking a combination of words. For example, is it possible to get streaming results which track the keyword San Francisco i.e, San AND Francisco. I could track San OR Francisco and then filter out for San AND Francisco but the results for San are very huge. /Amitabh Follow Twaller @mytwaller
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Twitter with Google Visualization
Twitter search keeps a limited amount of data (limited by time, fairly short window). The tweets however are kept indefinitely. Currently we only support accessing the last 3200 of them via the web and API ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Kidd jva...@gmail.com wrote: HI Peter, Ok, so what I understand you saying is that Twtiter only keeps 7 days or 3200 results available per person? So if I want trending over time (more than 7days) I'm going to have to call that data and then store it in a DB? Right now I am dabbling in Python as a way to retrieve, parse and write data. thanks jason On Jan 7, 4:52 pm, Peter Denton petermden...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Kidd Main reason to localize the data is for user experience. If twitter search slows down, you may have page loads waiting for the content you need. Also, you will get only 3200 results, or a historical snapshot of 7 days from a query, so you run the risk of losing data outside. It all depends on what data you need for how long. Now, if twitter search data on the fly works good, you basically need to 1. retrieve the data from twitter search (probably json) - I use jQuery so it would be something like thishttp://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/jQuery.ajax 2. parse the response result, convert it to proper JSON google visualizations wants for consumption to create a google.visualization.DataTable 3. create a view of the data table, specifying the information you want to display on the graph 4. create the visualization (areaImageChart, annotatedTimeline, etc) Here is an example from Google where the JSON is hardcoded, but aside from getting and parsing the data from twitter, this should show you what you need.http://www.mail-archive.com/google-visualization-...@googlegroups.com... Cheers Peter
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Best way to pull/cache location based search results?
Sorry for the delay on this... but when ecp said sounds like a reasonable approach. Note that the streaming API does support bounding box filters now. However they only work off the geo element, not the location field. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Amitab hiamita...@gmail.com wrote: Twaller.com is a service which categorizes location based tweets particularly useful to travelers. You can check us out at www.twaller.com. We search tweets based on some combinations of keywords and then filter them out using language processing algorithms. If you would like access to the data using a Web API, do let us know. Amitab follow Twaller @mytwaller On Jan 8, 7:49 am, @epc epcoste...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 8, 9:29 am, GeorgeMedia georgeme...@gmail.com wrote: No one? I think you would be better off consuming the firehose, geocode the tweets yourself, and throw away any that aren’t in regions you care about, caching the rest for a period of time. The thing to remember about geocoding of tweets is that until very recently the geocoding was solely by the location field in a user’s profile. True geocoding of individual tweets is very recent and depends on the user enabling geo coding, and on the user agent posting the lat/lon with the tweet. So the firehose *does* contain the geo field, it's just mostly empty because most clients don’t populate it yet. So if the geo field is empty you’d have to geocode based on the location field which is a bit of a hairball and may contain any data up to 30 bytes. Alternately, do the cron job thing but enlarge the regions you’re searching on (search on the top N cities or metros for example, not 200,000 coordinates). Cache the data, and accept that it won’t be absolutely up to date (it’s already lost a lot of precision since the location field is completely arbitrary and even if it is a city or lat/lon pair, does not necessarily represent where the twitter user was at that moment in time). -- -ed costello
[twitter-dev] Possible to get verified account status via API?
Hello, This would be useful to create celebrity leaderboard(s) in a game. Is it possible to get this information via the API? Amir
Re: [twitter-dev] Possible to get verified account status via API?
On 1/9/2010 6:26 PM, Amir Michail wrote: Hello, This would be useful to create celebrity leaderboard(s) in a game. Is it possible to get this information via the API? Amir http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users%C2%A0show verified attribute HTH
[twitter-dev] Re: Streaming API - AND between filter keywords
Thanks Mark. That helps a lot. On Jan 9, 4:44 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: Currently no. What I would do is search for Francisco (a much rarer term), and then manually check for San Francisco on your end. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Amitab hiamita...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way by which I can get streaming results tracking a combination of words. For example, is it possible to get streaming results which track the keyword San Francisco i.e, San AND Francisco. I could track San OR Francisco and then filter out for San AND Francisco but the results for San are very huge. /Amitabh Follow Twaller @mytwaller
[twitter-dev] Is there a different rate limit for social graph methods?
Here's what I'm doing: 1. Checking the rate limit status. It returns the following: remaining hits: 61, seconds to go: 3386, sleeping 55.5081967213115 seconds 2. Authorizing with oAuth, desktop PIN style via Firefox Starting Firefox to authorize - enter PIN: oAuth completed authorized: 1 3. Calling followers_ids. I get this: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. Huh? I'm doing all this in Perl - haven't had a chance to look at the HTTP stuff coming back yet. But is there another rate limit status call we need to make to check this case?
Re: [twitter-dev] Is there a different rate limit for social graph methods?
How are you authorizing when calling rate limit status? Same OAuth credentials? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I'm doing: 1. Checking the rate limit status. It returns the following: remaining hits: 61, seconds to go: 3386, sleeping 55.5081967213115 seconds 2. Authorizing with oAuth, desktop PIN style via Firefox Starting Firefox to authorize - enter PIN: oAuth completed authorized: 1 3. Calling followers_ids. I get this: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. Huh? I'm doing all this in Perl - haven't had a chance to look at the HTTP stuff coming back yet. But is there another rate limit status call we need to make to check this case?
[twitter-dev] Re: Is there a different rate limit for social graph methods?
Yeah ... oAuth first, then call rate limit status. I see what's happening. I'm testing followers_ids on an account with a huge number of followers (millions). I can get approximately 5000 a cursor page, but at some point, the servers are saying, Hey - quit doing that! and throwing an error: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. It's coming back with a 400 Bad Request. The Perl API library is pretty good about giving me details - here's what it's saying: x-ratelimit-limit = 450 x-ratelimit-remaining = 0 x-ratelimit-reset = 1263101958 x-ratelimit-class = api_identified It looks like there is a limit of 450 requests of some kind, and once I go over that, I'm shut out for an hour. Curiously enough, the standard rate_limit_status operation is returning a constant 150 hits and an hour remaining in this sequence. My code thought it was cool and just kept going. So it looks like there is a separate rate limit for cursor pages inside the followers_id paging mechanism. I'll know more in another hour. ;-) On Jan 9, 7:51 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: How are you authorizing when calling rate limit status? Same OAuth credentials? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I'm doing: 1. Checking the rate limit status. It returns the following: remaining hits: 61, seconds to go: 3386, sleeping 55.5081967213115 seconds 2. Authorizing with oAuth, desktop PIN style via Firefox Starting Firefox to authorize - enter PIN: oAuth completed authorized: 1 3. Calling followers_ids. I get this: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. Huh? I'm doing all this in Perl - haven't had a chance to look at the HTTP stuff coming back yet. But is there another rate limit status call we need to make to check this case?
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Is there a different rate limit for social graph methods?
If you can post complete HTTP conversations of both successful and failed calls (any sensitive info elided) that would be great. If the Perl library is trying to transparently get the entire social graph you'll definitely get rate limited. ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:31 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah ... oAuth first, then call rate limit status. I see what's happening. I'm testing followers_ids on an account with a huge number of followers (millions). I can get approximately 5000 a cursor page, but at some point, the servers are saying, Hey - quit doing that! and throwing an error: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. It's coming back with a 400 Bad Request. The Perl API library is pretty good about giving me details - here's what it's saying: x-ratelimit-limit = 450 x-ratelimit-remaining = 0 x-ratelimit-reset = 1263101958 x-ratelimit-class = api_identified It looks like there is a limit of 450 requests of some kind, and once I go over that, I'm shut out for an hour. Curiously enough, the standard rate_limit_status operation is returning a constant 150 hits and an hour remaining in this sequence. My code thought it was cool and just kept going. So it looks like there is a separate rate limit for cursor pages inside the followers_id paging mechanism. I'll know more in another hour. ;-) On Jan 9, 7:51 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: How are you authorizing when calling rate limit status? Same OAuth credentials? ---Mark http://twitter.com/mccv On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 7:38 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I'm doing: 1. Checking the rate limit status. It returns the following: remaining hits: 61, seconds to go: 3386, sleeping 55.5081967213115 seconds 2. Authorizing with oAuth, desktop PIN style via Firefox Starting Firefox to authorize - enter PIN: oAuth completed authorized: 1 3. Calling followers_ids. I get this: Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 450 requests per hour. Huh? I'm doing all this in Perl - haven't had a chance to look at the HTTP stuff coming back yet. But is there another rate limit status call we need to make to check this case?
[twitter-dev] Re: Is there a different rate limit for social graph methods?
On Jan 9, 9:59 pm, Mark McBride mmcbr...@twitter.com wrote: If you can post complete HTTP conversations of both successful and failed calls (any sensitive info elided) that would be great. If the Perl library is trying to transparently get the entire social graph you'll definitely get rate limited. It looks like nothing comes back until it fails. I'm running this with Komodo and breakpoints, and on a successful call, the Perl library only returns the requested array of IDs, the next cursor and the previous cursor. I'm going to run this by the author of the Perl library. It doesn't look like he's trying to get more than a page at a time when you specify a cursor, but I don't think he's ever tested something this big, so he wouldn't have run into it. I can post the returned HTTP for a failed one, though. ;-)
