[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Abraham Williams
Because search was originally a separate company that Twitter acquired. And
they didn't provide XML.

There a plan to fix this:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/V2-Roadmap#MergingRESTandSearchAPIs

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:03, Carlos  wrote:

>
> Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
> and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
> xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
> supported best regards, Carlos
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Ben Metcalfe

Atom is XML

On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos  wrote:
> Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
> and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
> xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
> supported best regards, Carlos


[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread Abraham Williams
As is RSS but but RSS, XML, json and Atom are the four formats that Twitter
provides on various methods.

Abraham

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 16:35, Ben Metcalfe  wrote:

>
> Atom is XML
>
> On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos  wrote:
> > Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
> > and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
> > xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
> > supported best regards, Carlos
>



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[twitter-dev] Re: search API - why not XML output...

2009-07-06 Thread JDG
I think he means the XML schema that's returned if you use the ".xml" suffix
for many API calls.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 15:35, Ben Metcalfe  wrote:

>
> Atom is XML
>
> On Jul 6, 8:03 am, Carlos  wrote:
> > Hi, bu looking at the search API docs I see the output format is JSON
> > and Atom, why not X-ML?  Forgive me I haven´t tried myself to request
> > xml to see what I get, but hopefully the docs are obsoletea and XML is
> > supported best regards, Carlos
>



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