Example JSON HTTP request for twitter api?

Question

I want to make a request to the twitter api. This is the example provided in the documentation (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/search):

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Answer 1

Look if this helps, I made an example for you:

Basically the HTML code contains 2 inputs. one for the button and one for the query string.

    


   

        
        
    
    

        Tweets will go here.
    

After pressing the search button, you'll send a request to twitter asking for 5 results (rpp) containing the query string.

Here's the javascript for this page:

function searchTwitter(query) {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://search.twitter.com/search.json?' + jQuery.param(query),
        dataType: 'jsonp',
        success: function(data) {
            var tweets = $('#tweets');
            tweets.html('');
            for (res in data['results']) {
                tweets.append('
' + data['results'][res]['from_user'] + ' wrote: 
' + data['results'][res]['text'] + '

');
        }
        }
    });
}

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#submit').click(function() {
        var params = {
            q: $('#query').val(),
            rpp: 5
        };
        // alert(jQuery.param(params));
        searchTwitter(params);
    });
});

The trick is the jQuery.param() function that you'll pass the params for the search/request

See it running here:

http://jsfiddle.net/73L4c/6/