DataFlex

Twitter - Get Single Tweet (by ID)

Demonstrates how to fetch a single tweet given an ID. This example uses application-only OAuth2 authentication.

This example is deprecated and no longer valid.

DataFlex

Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Handle hoHttp
    String sUrl
    String sStrJson
    Handle hoJson
    Boolean iSuccess
    String sTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    // It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // This application uses application-only authentication.
    // It uses the token previously obtained as shown in this example:  Twitter Application-Only Authentication

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatHttp)) To hoHttp
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoHttp))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoHttp
    End

    // Set the OAuth2 token previously obtained via application-only authentication.
    Set ComAuthToken Of hoHttp To "TWITTER_OAUTH2_TOKEN"

    // A sample GET looks like this:
    // GET https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=210462857140252672
    Move "https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/show.json?id=TWEET_ID" To sUrl
    Get ComQuickGetStr Of hoHttp sUrl To sStrJson
    Get ComLastMethodSuccess Of hoHttp To bTemp1
    If (bTemp1 <> True) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoHttp To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatJsonObject)) To hoJson
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoJson))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoJson
    End
    Set ComEmitCompact Of hoJson To False
    Get ComLoad Of hoJson sStrJson To iSuccess

    Get ComEmit Of hoJson To sTemp1
    Showln sTemp1

    // A sample JSON response is shown below.
    // To generate JSON parsing code, paste the sample JSON response into
    // Generate JSON Parsing Source Code

    // {
    //   "created_at": "Mon Aug 27 23:35:55 +0000 2018",
    //   "id": 1034223013313404928,
    //   "id_str": "1034223013313404928",
    //   "text": "The v9.5.0.75 release is underway.  Alpine Linux and OpenBSD will be included in this release..",
    //   "truncated": false,
    //   "entities": {
    //     "hashtags": [
    //     ],
    //     "symbols": [
    //     ],
    //     "user_mentions": [
    //     ],
    //     "urls": [
    //     ]
    //   },
    //   "source": "\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter Web Client\u003c\/a\u003e",
    //   "in_reply_to_status_id": null,
    //   "in_reply_to_status_id_str": null,
    //   "in_reply_to_user_id": null,
    //   "in_reply_to_user_id_str": null,
    //   "in_reply_to_screen_name": null,
    //   "user": {
    //     "id": 85647455,
    //     "id_str": "85647455",
    //     "name": "Chilkat Software",
    //     "screen_name": "chilkatsoft",
    //     "location": "",
    //     "description": "",
    //     "url": "https:\/\/t.co\/hSTR4sOuis",
    //     "entities": {
    //       "url": {
    //         "urls": [
    //           {
    //             "url": "https:\/\/t.co\/hSTR4sOuis",
    //             "expanded_url": "http:\/\/www.chilkatsoft.com",
    //             "display_url": "chilkatsoft.com",
    //             "indices": [
    //               0,
    //               23
    //             ]
    //           }
    //         ]
    //       },
    //       "description": {
    //         "urls": [
    //         ]
    //       }
    //     },
    //     "protected": false,
    //     "followers_count": 112,
    //     "friends_count": 0,
    //     "listed_count": 4,
    //     "created_at": "Tue Oct 27 19:56:13 +0000 2009",
    //     "favourites_count": 0,
    //     "utc_offset": null,
    //     "time_zone": null,
    //     "geo_enabled": false,
    //     "verified": false,
    //     "statuses_count": 62,
    //     "lang": "en",
    //     "contributors_enabled": false,
    //     "is_translator": false,
    //     "is_translation_enabled": false,
    //     "profile_background_color": "C0DEED",
    //     "profile_background_image_url": "http:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme1\/bg.png",
    //     "profile_background_image_url_https": "https:\/\/abs.twimg.com\/images\/themes\/theme1\/bg.png",
    //     "profile_background_tile": false,
    //     "profile_image_url": "http:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/785893001012744195\/clLweDSg_normal.jpg",
    //     "profile_image_url_https": "https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/785893001012744195\/clLweDSg_normal.jpg",
    //     "profile_link_color": "1DA1F2",
    //     "profile_sidebar_border_color": "C0DEED",
    //     "profile_sidebar_fill_color": "DDEEF6",
    //     "profile_text_color": "333333",
    //     "profile_use_background_image": true,
    //     "has_extended_profile": false,
    //     "default_profile": true,
    //     "default_profile_image": false,
    //     "following": null,
    //     "follow_request_sent": null,
    //     "notifications": null,
    //     "translator_type": "none"
    //   },
    //   "geo": null,
    //   "coordinates": null,
    //   "place": null,
    //   "contributors": null,
    //   "is_quote_status": false,
    //   "retweet_count": 0,
    //   "favorite_count": 2,
    //   "favorited": false,
    //   "retweeted": false,
    //   "lang": "en"
    // }
    // 


End_Procedure