Hi Rajinder. The user_timeline returns upto 200 statuses per page starting with the most recent. To retrieve a complete page of 200 you will want to make a request similar to:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=200\&include_rts=1 This request will return upto the most recent 200 statuses. To retrieve the next 200 you would make this request: http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?count=200\&include_rts=1\&page=2 When requesting this many statuses at once you may get a 503 error response from us. If this happens wait a few seconds and try the request again. Hope that helps, @themattharris Developer Advocate, Twitter http://twitter.com/themattharris On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi I would like to know how I can go about retrieving all the tweet message > ids from a user's timeline? > > I am using the user_timeline to get the message ids, is there a better > faster way? > > The following page seems to indicate I can obtain up to 3200 statuses. > > http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline > > However I am not able to fetch 3200 statuses. Also if I pass in a count of > 200, I something only get 20 in my result other times 4, this occurs in the > cases where there are say 40000 statuses by the user. > > If I have to make multiple calls, how can I go about fetching a list of all > the user_timeline message ids? > > Also can someone from please explain to me how the page parameter works, > specially in the case of varying result sizes? > > Finally how is the message ordered in the user_timeline, can I make an > assumption that the last status at the bottom on the page will always be > older than the top? > > Thanks, > > -- > Kind Regards, > Rajinder Yadav > > -- > 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 > -- 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
