Control: retitle -1 libnet-twitter-perl: please document how to get extended tweets Control: tags -1 - unreproducible
On 2017-11-24 23:21:56 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > True but we might still fix the 140 character issue. > > Except that I see no mention of "140" in the code (only in the POD)?! > The update method seems to just POST to statuses/update, and that's > it. I'm not talking about the "update" method, but tweets that are read, e.g. via user_timeline. The limit of 140 characters comes from Twitter, with the old API. However, after searching a bit, I've found that it doesn't need any code change. The POD documentation is just misleading (one has the impression that it gives all the parameters that are accepted) and incomplete with the current API. According to https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/tweet-updates one needs the "Extended" mode for REST APIs. For user_timeline, the documentation is: user_timeline Parameters: user_id, screen_name, since_id, max_id, count, trim_user, exclude_replies, include_rts, contributor_details Required: none [...] It should add the "tweet_mode" parameter, and say that it can be set to "extended" for extended mode, and say that the tweet is available in "full_text" instead of "text". But since this applies to several methods, this could also be a new section in the documentation. The initial example could also be updated, by changing my $statuses = $nt->friends_timeline({ since_id => $high_water, count => 100 }); for my $status ( @$statuses ) { print "$status->{created_at} <$status->{user}{screen_name}> $status->{text}\n"; to my $statuses = $nt->friends_timeline({ since_id => $high_water, count => 100, tweet_mode => 'extended' }); for my $status ( @$statuses ) { print "$status->{created_at} <$status->{user}{screen_name}> $status->{full_text}\n"; (not tried on this particular example, but this worked in my scripts for home_timeline and user_timeline). BTW, the URL's to the API documentation are obsolete, so that this didn't help at the beginning. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
