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user1251698
user1251698

Reputation: 2143

Getting Twitter data with new API

As the twitter has updated its API recently, how can I get the number of followers of a person?

I could get such data with old API using following, but if I understand correctly, it will stop working at any time. 

http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=twitter

How can I get the same data using their new API? I have checked their documentation but could not understand.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1313

Answers (2)

luk3thomas
luk3thomas

Reputation: 2612

Yes, it is confusing. I did this recently for a client and it took me a while to figure out.

Read this: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth

To comply with v1.1 and get the data you want, you'll need to create a twitter application through your twitter account. The application will give you a couple of access keys. You'll use those access keys to obtain an access token, which you use to fetch your public data.

Here is the implementation I used: https://gist.github.com/luk3thomas/5243493

Upvotes: 1

Ohgodwhy
Ohgodwhy

Reputation: 50787

Well straight from the new documentation it would seem the biggest difference is using 1.1 instead of 1

You still retreive the data using JSON -

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json

The docs say that the requirements are:

Always specify either an user_id or screen_name when requesting a user timeline.

And the returned object contains a "user" object, which contains the followers_count key:value pair.

{
    {
        ......
        user: {
            .....
            "followers_count" : int
        }
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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