[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
Hey cballou, What is the actual API call you are making? I ask because the users/lookup.json method requires you pass it user ids for it to work. If you don't pass it any user ids or screen names you will told that no user matches the specified terms. The data is then returned in an undefined order. As nischalshetty said, this method can be used to request information about any user so the sort order is arbitrary. Are you getting results when you pass no IDs? Matt On May 27, 7:43 pm, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: So it's the same one that I was talking about. They haven't specified any sorting rules in the doc, are you sure about it? Before all that, I hope you know that the lookup API can be used to retrieve info about ANY twitter user. So it does not matter if that user is your friend. How will the sorting be applied then? -Nischal On May 27, 5:18 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: The link is: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup It actually returns the full dataset for up to 100 users. The returned data is sorted by your newest friendship in descending order. This functionality is quite minimal and could definitely be expanded upon like I suggested above. I was just wondering if there were any possibly hidden parameters I could pass in to change the count, cursor position, etc. On May 26, 1:22 am, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about this -http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format The above API returns whatever ids you have passed. Am I missing something? -Nischal On May 26, 4:38 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
Matt, I'm passing individual screen names and/or ids. I understand the full functionality of this API method. My question is more of a feature request because the return data is not particularly useful for what I'm trying to do. Ideally I would want to pass a cursor parameter like many of the other API calls so I can sort over datasets of 100 results. Scenario: I would like to retrieve all specific user's followers screen names (not just 100 of the latest) in the fewest possible API calls. Ideally this would involve checking a next_cursor return variable from the json data. On May 28, 6:27 pm, themattharris thematthar...@twitter.com wrote: Hey cballou, What is the actual API call you are making? I ask because the users/lookup.json method requires you pass it user ids for it to work. If you don't pass it any user ids or screen names you will told that no user matches the specified terms. The data is then returned in an undefined order. As nischalshetty said, this method can be used to request information about any user so the sort order is arbitrary. Are you getting results when you pass no IDs? Matt On May 27, 7:43 pm, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: So it's the same one that I was talking about. They haven't specified any sorting rules in the doc, are you sure about it? Before all that, I hope you know that the lookup API can be used to retrieve info about ANY twitter user. So it does not matter if that user is your friend. How will the sorting be applied then? -Nischal On May 27, 5:18 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: The link is: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup It actually returns the full dataset for up to 100 users. The returned data is sorted by your newest friendship in descending order. This functionality is quite minimal and could definitely be expanded upon like I suggested above. I was just wondering if there were any possibly hidden parameters I could pass in to change the count, cursor position, etc. On May 26, 1:22 am, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about this -http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format The above API returns whatever ids you have passed. Am I missing something? -Nischal On May 26, 4:38 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
So it's the same one that I was talking about. They haven't specified any sorting rules in the doc, are you sure about it? Before all that, I hope you know that the lookup API can be used to retrieve info about ANY twitter user. So it does not matter if that user is your friend. How will the sorting be applied then? -Nischal On May 27, 5:18 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: The link is: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/lookup It actually returns the full dataset for up to 100 users. The returned data is sorted by your newest friendship in descending order. This functionality is quite minimal and could definitely be expanded upon like I suggested above. I was just wondering if there were any possibly hidden parameters I could pass in to change the count, cursor position, etc. On May 26, 1:22 am, nischalshetty nischalshett...@gmail.com wrote: Are you talking about this -http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format The above API returns whatever ids you have passed. Am I missing something? -Nischal On May 26, 4:38 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
Are you talking about this - http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format The above API returns whatever ids you have passed. Am I missing something? -Nischal On May 26, 4:38 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
[twitter-dev] Re: users.lookup() pulls by friendship date
Are you talking about this - http://api.twitter.com/version/users/lookup.format The above API returns whatever ids you have passed. Am I missing something? -Nischal On May 26, 4:38 am, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: Nobody? On May 25, 12:14 pm, cballou ball...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't like the fact that calling users.lookup() returns the last 100 users I have friended. Is there a way to retrieve users in a more random fashion or with some kind of ordering (ascending/descending)? I'm looking for more optional parameters. Suppose, for instance, that I have 500 friends. I would not want to pull my last 100 friends when making this API call. I might want to, however, pull a random sampling of 100 of those friends. I may also want to pull a particular number of friends (i.e. imposing a limit on the request). I would propose that there be additional filtering parameters for this request: sort: asc/desc/random (default desc) limit: 1-100 (default 100) Can anybody clarify and expand upon this for me?
