Hi, I hope someone can clarify a few things for me please
I need to retrieve individual tweets via some sort of backend api/rss/ xml -ish web service for a website that I'm building. I can do the searching for hashtags/keywords etc fine; but I'm having trouble getting the contents of individual tweets when I have the url/id for the tweet. To elaborate; I have a URL like this: http://twitter.com/USERNAME/status/123456789 and I know I can then hit http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/show/123456789.xml to get that tweet and user detail in xml format. However I'm finding that after a few tries I start to get authentication issues; it seems to be some kind of rate limiting, because eventually I can get it again. Now while I certainly won't be overwhelming twitter with requests or anything, I do need the ability to make more than a few requests per hour. So what's the best way to achieve this? Do I have to authenticate with oAuth or something? Can you clarify this? Because everything I've ready about oAuth suggests that it requires some sort of user intervention as well to complete the process. I don't want this. I have my twitter app (with ID and Secret) and I want to be able to use that to authenticate and query Twitter as much as possible. Is there an example of this that I can look at? Thanks!!! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
