Twitter API Application

We've created a small application to have acquaintance with API's. In this case, Twitter was our target and we made several tiny apps to demonstrate our work. Server can be reached from:

http://206.189.12.235/

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Trends by Location (by Abdurrahman Dilmaç)

Description

• Gathers trends information by place. Use WOEID (Where On Earth ID)

Input:

• woeid: Woeid numbers for places can be found in this list.

Output:

• Trends for given place.

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/trends-by-place/woeid

Example Web interface call: http://206.189.12.235/trends-by-place/1

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/trends-by-place/woeid

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/trends-by-place/1

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Find Users (by Ömer Kırbıyık)

Description

• Based on your search query it founds most relevant 5 accounts for that search.
• Then it fetches very last tweet of that 5 accounts.
• Displays them together.

Input:

• search-name: A search query to find users relevant to it. For instance, 'mark'.

Output:

• 5 tweets which consist of last tweet of 5 accounts.

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/find_users/search-name

Example Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/find_users/jack

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/find_users/search-name

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/find_users/jack

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Retweet (by Atıf Emre Yüksel)

Description

• Retweet the last tweet of the user whose username is specified in link.
• If there is no user with specified username, return a response including the information about wrong input.
• If the last tweet is retweeted before, return a response about that this tweet cannot be retweeted more than once.

Input:

• username: A username string to retweet its last tweet. For example, 'ylecun'.

Output:

• Retweet of the last tweet of user.

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/retweet/username

Example Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/retweet/ylecun

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/retweet/username

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/retweet/ylecun

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Find Followings List of a User (by Mert Aközcan)

Description

• Finds users that the given user is following on Twitter
• Lists these found users

Input:

• screen_name: username of user whose followings list will be found
• count: (optional) number of users wanted to be returned in the result list (default = 20)

Output:

• List of users that the given user is following

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/followings/screen_name?count=20

Example Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/followings/uskudarli?count=10

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/followings/screen_name?count=20

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/followings/uskudarli?count=10

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Recent Favorites (by Fatih Maytalman)

Description

• Finds user's recent favorited tweets Twitter and finds the retweet number of the tweet
• Gives average number of retweets of the favorited tweets of the user

Input:

• screen_name: username of user whose followings list will be found
• count: (optional) number of users wanted to be returned in the result list (default = 20)

Output:

• List of users that the given user is following

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/recent_favorites/screen_name?count=20

Example Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/recent_favorites/uskudarli?count=20

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/recent_favorites/screen_name?count=20

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/recent_favorites/uskudarli?count=10

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Followers (by Zeynep Işık)

Description

• Finds input user's 10 followers

Input:

• screen_name: username of user who is followed

Output:

• List of 10 followers of the input user

Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/find_followers/screen_name

Example Web interface: http://206.189.12.235/find_followers/uskudarli

API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/find_followers/screen_name

Example API call: http://206.189.12.235/api/find_followers/uskudarli