Excellent, got this working in under 10 min. If I could buy you a beer I would.
Stef On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:40 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <zn...@borasky-research.net> wrote: > I don't know the PHP, but the call does *not* require authentication if you > are willing to live with 150 API calls per hour. It's "GET users/show" > > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show > > The last tweet (if there is one) will be an embedded "status" object. At the > same cost of 150 unauthenticated API calls per hour, you can pick up the > most recent 200 tweets with "GET statuses/user_timeline" > > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline > > The default is 20 tweets, but you can get as many as 200 per call by using > the "count" parameter. > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > > Quoting stef <stefankend...@gmail.com>: > >> I've been asked to display the latest tweet of one certain twitter >> account on that person's website. I understand one has to use OAuth. I >> have added an application in the twitter account and have obtained all >> the various tokens. >> >> The documentation seems to talk a lot about "authenticating users" but >> AFAIK this is not required if I simply want to display one tweet, >> which is public anyway. Even the rss feed can not longer be accessed >> with OAuth ? >> >> What is the easiest way to just display the latest tweet on a site, >> using php? >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > > > -- stefankend...@gmail.com phone: +32 479 825 931 -- 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
