[twitter-dev] Search API Refresh Rate
Hello! I'm developing an application which needs to constantly request a search API result. I'm pushing through a since_id to try to help minimise the load on the servers. My question is, what is the optimum time limit to loop the API requests? My application will need to act upon the result of the search pretty much instantly. I currently have the script requesting a search API result every 5 seconds. Will this hammer your servers too much? Do you know the average time third party clients reload tweets? Are there any guidelines for this? As this would have a factor in when my applications actions are seen and so the need to request a search result refresh Thanks, Pete
[twitter-dev] Re: Freelance Twitter API Dev directory?
Alex, If you could please add my details to the list of Twitter API Developers: Name: Peter Hough Twitter: http://twitter.com/peterhough Website: http://www.peterhough.co.uk Email: http://scr.im/peterhough Portfolio: http://twitrand.com Many thanks, Pete On Feb 23, 7:33 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote: There isn't one that I'm aware of, but if people would like to post their contact info in this thread (Twitter username, URL, email, whatever) I'm happy to collect them on the API Wiki. On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 18:00, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have been getting a few requests here and there for twitter API development work. I cannot take on any such projects at the moment, but I always feel bad for leaving them in the lurch. Is there a list or directory anywhere of Twitter API developers that work freelance that I can send to them when this happens? I'm happy to forward on such requests. -Chad -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: Search API Refresh Rate
Perfect, thanks Matt On Apr 8, 5:27 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi Pete, Every 5 seconds is well below the rate limit and seems like a good rate for reasonably quick responses. It sounds like you're doing the same query each time so that should be fine. For people doing requests based on many different queries I recommend that they query less often for searches that have no results than for those that do. By using a back-off you can keep up to date on queries that are hot but not waste cycles requesting queries that very rarely change. Check out the way we do it on search.twitter.com athttp://search.twitter.com/javascripts/search/refresher.js Thanks; — Matt Sanford / @mzsanford On Apr 8, 2009, at 02:30 AM, peterhough wrote: Hello! I'm developing an application which needs to constantly request a search API result. I'm pushing through a since_id to try to help minimise the load on the servers. My question is, what is the optimum time limit to loop the API requests? My application will need to act upon the result of the search pretty much instantly. I currently have the script requesting a search API result every 5 seconds. Will this hammer your servers too much? Do you know the average time third party clients reload tweets? Are there any guidelines for this? As this would have a factor in when my applications actions are seen and so the need to request a search result refresh Thanks, Pete
Friends / Followers without authentication?
Hi,
Is is possible to retrieve a list of peoples friends and followers
without authenticating with Twitter?
I've discovered http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/{username}.xml
which seems to work but the equivalent
http://twitter.com/statuses/followers/{username}.xml
requires authentication.
I can create a Twitter account and use those login details as the
authentication but it's limited to a maximum of 100 requests per hour,
which isn't any good for an application.
Any help appreciated
Pete
Re: Friends / Followers without authentication?
How do they make requests while authenticated as their own account
without supplying a password? Am I missing something here... Oh they
put in their username and the request for the followers list is made
under my whitelisted account?
Think I get it now..
Thanks very much Alex
On Jan 4, 10:13 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
All they need is a username. They make requests while authenticated as
their own account.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 14:05, peterhough em...@peterhough.co.uk wrote:
You're limit requests to 100 per hour from IP addresses? In that case
I will need my server's IP white listing and will fill out the form.
Thanks!
However, this still doesn't solve the problem of requiring
authentication to list followers. Ideally I don't want people to have
to enter their Twitter password into my webform. Mr Tweet and
friendorfollow.com seem to be able to retrieve these without my
Twitter account details. How?
Regards,
Pete
On Jan 4, 9:42 pm, Alex Payne a...@twitter.com wrote:
Whether authenticated or not, we limit the number of requests per hour
to 100. We can whitelist your username and/or server's IP address(es),
though. Please fill out this form to get the process
started:http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 06:01, peterhough em...@peterhough.co.uk wrote:
Hi,
Is is possible to retrieve a list of peoples friends and followers
without authenticating with Twitter?
I've discoveredhttp://twitter.com/statuses/friends/{username}.xml
which seems to work but the
equivalenthttp://twitter.com/statuses/followers/{username}.xml
requires authentication.
I can create a Twitter account and use those login details as the
authentication but it's limited to a maximum of 100 requests per hour,
which isn't any good for an application.
Any help appreciated
Pete
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Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
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Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x
