New twitter implementation

[bebus77]

Hey guys,

I'm building apps that need to get the last tweet of a certain user, I was easily using the MGTwitterEngine, and everything worked really fine but since two days ago twitter has changed pretty everything and the basic authentication is no more allowed for third party apps, and MGTwitterEngine doesn't seem to be working anymore or maybe in the way I used to use it.

Now I am asking you, what's the simplest way to get just the last tweet ?

I am viewing some oauth and xauth code for iphone and they seem to be pretty complicated, have you got something else ?

any guide ?

Thank you so much for the answers

[harrytheshark]

The latest MGTwitterEngine has support for X/OAuth. Try downloading the most recent version from Github.

[TapTouchClick]

if you JUST want the last tweet, your safest bet is to screenscrape the RSS or Screen.

[refreshe]

Probably shouldn't scrape the site, but it's quite simple through the API.
If all you're doing with twitter is just getting someone's last tweet, you can simply make an anonymous API call since that type of call doesn't require Authentication (provided that user's timeline isn't protected);

Example using json:

{
    NSString *url = @"http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=conanobrien&count=1";
    NSString *jsonString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
    NSArray *results = [jsonString JSONValue];

    NSString *tweet = [[results objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey@"text"]];
}

[TapTouchClick]

aha! Forgot about Json :/ The guy above is 100% right.

[rrichar]

Can someone example to me what json is. I want to do the samething. Post a certain user's twitter posts.

[bebus77]

Originally Posted by refreshe

Probably shouldn't scrape the site, but it's quite simple through the API.
If all you're doing with twitter is just getting someone's last tweet, you can simply make an anonymous API call since that type of call doesn't require Authentication (provided that user's timeline isn't protected);

Example using json:

{
    NSString *url = @"http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=conanobrien&count=1";
    NSString *jsonString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:url] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
    NSArray *results = [jsonString JSONValue];

    NSString *tweet = [[results objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey@"text"]];
}

Thank you so much ! everything is working perfectly !

[rrichar]

Can someone help me out. I am making an App for my club. I t is a tab bar App. In one of the tabs I want to pull the twitter from a twitter account I created for my club. That why when I post events or meetings they can get it from the App. Can someone tell me what is the best way of doing so ? I am using PHONE SDK 4.00 and XCODE 3.2.3.

[refreshe]

The snippet I posted above may be enough to accomplish what you're describing. You just need to include the json framework from json-framework - Project Hosting on Google Code in your project.
Then the results array can be used as the data source for a UITableView which displays the tweets.

[rrichar]

Can I do this in a UIVIEW ?

[harrytheshark]

You can do it wherever you want.