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KingPolygon
KingPolygon

Reputation: 4755

iOS: Getting Notified When a Tweet Matching a Specific Phrase is Immediately Sent Out?

There's a specific user that tweets out a tweet (with a secret link and phrase) every month. What I want is to monitor that account, and the moment it posts the tweet, I want to be able to get notified within my app, and then do something.

Here's what I know:

User Account The Phrase within that tweet The time it is tweeted every month (i.e. 6am on the 4th saturday).

What I don't know: The actual link to be tweeted.

My goal is to immediately know when it is sent out, so that I can open the link asap (time is super crucial).

Now a days there are many third party libraries, and tools that allow you to pull and display tweets. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. Should I use twitter's streaming api, or their rest api? Any help would be appreciated!

I would prefer it if no authentication would be required. Thanks so much and happy holidays!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 131

Answers (1)

neilco
neilco

Reputation: 8012

You can use the User streaming API to immediately receive a tweet as soon as it's published. I would create a specific Twitter account for this and only follow the Twitter account you wish to monitor. Use the with=followings parameter to receive the tweets from the account you want to monitor. Since you know these tweets are only occurring monthly at a specific time, you could limit connecting to the streaming API to a narrow window around the time the tweet is expected.

Upvotes: 1

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