Hi Taylor Thanks for the responds, thats great news. I pass the tweet through an automated linker and so I want to use expanded_url instead.
When you visit the link it substitutes it back to the original url before it loads. So for the end user they don't see anything different at all. So if the intention is for expanded_url to always accompany a url (even if it might occasionally break) then my logic will work fine. Richard On Sep 13, 4:04 pm, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hi Rich, > > You can't be guaranteed to always have a display_url (there will be many > historical tweets without it, or perhaps the service that negotiates > display_urls will be down), so you should code defensively, making use of > them when they are present but choosing an alternate display method when it > is absent. > > display_url, as you've noted, is also a misnomer since the string contained > within the field is technically not a URL, but just a string to display > instead of the URL. expanded_url should always be safe to assume as actually > being a URL. > > While it should be safe to assume that all t.co links will have an > expanded_url as well as a display_url, I'd still code defensively in the > event that something goes wrong. > > Thanks, > Taylor > > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:28 AM, Rich <rhyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > I have a question for the API team. I notice that display_url doesn't > > contain the protocol e.g. http:// or https:// yet expanded_url does. > > > Would I be safe to assume that a <url>http://t.co/xxxxxx</url> would > > always contain an expanded_url as well as a display_url? > > > Richard > > > -- > > 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 -- 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
