The image link is a singleton tag; it does not require a closing tag. You can request whitelisting at http://twitter.com/help/request_whitelisting.
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 06:22, btan <btanw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I am trying to read twitter search API. I am able to fetch XML feed > and parse all elements of an entry except link href for html and > image. I am using SimpleXML in php and curl to read XML feed and parse > data. I can easily get author name, title, content because it has > standard tag <title> .... </title>. > I can not read image link because it does not have the same open and > close tage for image link. > > So, could you please provide a link for image in you search API. > Twitter provides an image profile entity in public status. I would > also like to know how to add our IP in your whitelist. > > regards > btan > www.explorewww.com > > > On Jan 20, 6:48 pm, "Alex Payne" <a...@twitter.com> wrote: >> Up until now we've allowed users and IPs on our whitelist an unlimited >> number of requests per hour. When our whitelist was in the tens and >> low hundreds, this made sense. Now that we have more developers on the >> whitelist than we can reasonably maintain close communication with, we >> need to put a ceiling on the number of requests per hour whitelisted >> accounts and IPs can make. >> >> Starting later this week we'll be limiting those on the whitelist to >> 20,000 requests per hour. Yes, you read that right: twenty THOUSAND >> requests per hour. According to our logs, this accounts for all but >> the very largest consumers of our API. This is essentially a >> preventative measure to ensure that no one API client, even a >> whitelisted account or IP, can consume an inordinate amount of our >> resoures. >> >> If you run one of the services that routinely exceed 20k >> requests/hour, please get in contact with us (a...@twitter.com) as soon >> as possible. Chances are good that you'll simply need to slow your >> crawl rates, implement more caching on your end, and limit requests to >> only active accounts. We're happy to work with you to find solutions. >> >> -- >> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
