Sorry to bother you, but I found out that this feature is already available Turns out I can easily get user's profile as json or xml without using oAuth or API
Very simple, like this: http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/MythBusters.json This is just great! On Feb 18, 3:36 pm, Dmitri Snytkine <d.snytk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just though of something that would be very helpful to developers: > what if there was a url to get xml or json of user's profile, > background image, color settings and avatar. > I mean similar to regular RSS feed, only for the current user's > settings. > > This way we don't even need to use API if we want to generate a page > that looks like user's own twitter page. And because it would be > static files, they could be served from Twitter very fast and make use > last-modified and etag headers. > > Currently if I want to style a page to mimin user's twitter page, I > have to access thehttps://twitter.com/account/verify_credentials.json > and for that I have to use oAuth call. But this is an overkill. Why do > I even need to have user's token and secret just to get his latest > profile that is basically available on his twitter page, I just don't > want to to and scrape it from the actual twitter page. > > Why not give us the url to get these settings as json or xml the same > way we can get the RSS for user's latest messages without having to > use API
