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On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 07:49:55 -0500, gregjohn wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Feb 2015 22:20:38 -0500, gregjohn wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I started playing with Twitter API. I have lots of permissions
>> > and keys but no idea how to start using them.
>> >
>> > I ultimately want to start using "GET statuses/user_timeline". I am
>> > told to type in a signature base string, authorization header, and
>> > cURL command. Is this, um, in Python? Unfortunately the main page
>> > which might explain things isn't loading.
>> >
>> > Can someone recommend a good programming dev environment for the Mac
>> > in which I can use those commands. thanks.
>>
>> Sounds like a REST API. cURL is sometimes used for that from a bash
>> prompt.
>>
>> If you do Python development, have a look at the python-requests
>> package - I do a little python/REST work myself for work, and I've
>> found that to be the easiest way to handle this - python-requests will
>> manage the session, so you only need to perform the authentication once
>> (that's usually in addition to the authorization header, which I think
>> includes an API key of some sort).
>>
>> Jim
>
>
> Okay, thanks! I just want to grab a big slew of tweets, from 600
> individuals I've pre-selected, "one time", not necessarily make a
> full-blown application. But it looks like the API may be the only
> officially approved way to do so. (Counterevidence?) Okay, I'll look
> at python-requests. The one thing I do find quite odd is in a world
> with dozens of programming environments, they Twitter API team just
> dumps code out there with no explanation.
That's not an uncommon practice, sadly - SDKs are something that don't
get nearly enough attention when it comes to documentation.
Part of the problem is, I think, that the people documenting APIs have a
significant amount of domain knowledge, and don't consider that their
audience doesn't.
Jim
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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw
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