I'm seeing some problems with the statuses/friends_timeline method. Best explained with this piece of code:
from urllib import urlencode, FancyURLopener from random import randint, sample from simplejson import loads method = "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.json?"; def test(urlopener, count=None, max_page=None, runs=5): stats = [] if not count: count = randint(1, 200) if not max_page: max_page = 3200 / count pages = sample(range(1, max_page + 1), runs) for page in pages: querystring = urlencode({'count' : count, 'page' : page}) statuses = loads(urlopener.open(method + querystring).read()) stats.append((count, page, len(statuses))) print "%s %s %s" % ('COUNT', 'PAGE', 'STATUSES') for run in stats: print "%5d %4d %8d" % run Here is the output for a run - test(FancyURLopener(), 200, 7): COUNT PAGE STATUSES 200 7 0 200 2 197 200 6 0 200 5 0 200 1 198 1. Notice the odd number of statuses returned for pages # 1, 2. This seems to happen regularly and the returned # is always >= (count - 5) && <= count. 2. I never seem to get any statuses beyond page # 4. (I definitely have more >800 status messaged in my friends timeline). Thanks!
