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Abs

Reputation: 57966

Get Twitter User Details without Authentication

I have noticed some Twitter Applications manage to get a particular users Location, Name, Profile Image etc using just the twitter username?

Hows is this possible?

I ask because I have not come across any where in the Twitter docs on how you can do this. I can get a users details myself using oAuth when the user provides my app permission but thats it.

Would be grateful if this could be cleared. I hope its not the use of CURL as this is not a good idea in my eyes. If there is another way, is there a PHP implementation that I could use.

Thank you for any help.

Update

I did not know that existed! Is there a PHP wrapper or class someone has written to use that ? Sorry, I am complete noob and I relay on wrappers and simple function calls!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2634

Answers (1)

seth
seth

Reputation: 37287

It's returned by the users/show call from the API.

For example: http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name=dougw

The API wiki lists a PHP library FWIW.

Upvotes: 2

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