Database Reference
In-Depth Information
User's real name (Data Analytics)
User's Twitter handle(@twtanalyticsbk)
User's location (Tempe, AZ)
URL, which typically points to a more detailed profile of the user on an external
website (
tweettracker.fulton.asu.edu/tda
)
Textual description of the user and his interests (Twitter Data Analytics is a topic
for...)
User's network activity information on Twitter (1 follower and following 6
friends)
Number of Tweets published by the user (1 Tweet)
Verified mark if the identity of the user has been externally verified by Twitter
Profile creation date
Listing 2.2
Using Twitter API to fetch a user's profile
public JSONObject GetProfile(String username) {
...
// Step 1: Create the API request using the supplied
username
URL url = new URL(
"https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/
show.json?screen_name="
+username);
HttpURLConnection huc = (HttpURLConnection) url.
openConnection();
huc.setReadTimeout(5000);
// Step 2: Sign the request using the OAuth Secret
consumer.sign(huc);
huc.connect();
...
/
**
Step 3: If the requests have been exhausted,
*
then wait until the quota is renewed
*
/
if(huc.getResponseCode()==429) {
try {
huc.disconnect();
Thread.sleep(
this
.GetWaitTime(
"/users/
show/:id"
));
flag = false;
...
// Step 4: Retrieve the user's profile from Twitter
bRead = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader((
InputStream) huc.getContent()));
...
profile = new JSONObject(content.toString());
...
return userobj;
}
Source: Chapter2/restapi/RESTApiExample.java
