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Savvas Parastatidis
Savvas Parastatidis

Reputation: 792

How to use Twitter REST API with Java?

I am trying to use the Twitter REST API to get the trending topics from Twitter. I tried Simplest Java example retrieving user_timeline with twitter API version 1.1 but I couldn't make it to work because the HttpClient class is abstract in the newer versions of apache.

So, basically, I have no idea how to use the API based on the documentation on dev.twitter. The only thing I have achieved is to post a tweet using twitter4j, but it has no way to get Trending topics by itself.

I've also seen a lot of tutorials and how-to's but they seem to be outdated and nothing works!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1089

Answers (1)

Fatih Donmez
Fatih Donmez

Reputation: 4347

Check Apache HttpClient 4.5 tutorial here

Simple Get request looks like ;

CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://targethost/homepage");
CloseableHttpResponse response1 = httpclient.execute(httpGet);

Implement twitter api on top of it.

Edit:

HttpClient has this execute function;

@Override
public CloseableHttpResponse execute(
        final HttpUriRequest request) throws IOException, ClientProtocolException {
    return execute(request, (HttpContext) null);
}

which takes HttpUriRequest interface (implemented by abstract HttpRequestBase and also by HttpGet)

Upvotes: 1

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