I would like to use the API to return all tweets that match my search query, but only tweets posted within the last five seconds.
With Twitter\'s Search API, I can use t
This sounds like something you can do on your end, as created_at is one of the fields returned in the result set. Just do your query, and only use the ones that are within the last 5 seconds.
Twitter API results are sorted by recent by default. Please see the following quote from twitter wiki :
Parameter to Twitter search API :
* Valid values include:
o mixed: In a future release this will become the default value. Include both popular and real time results in the response.
o recent: The current default value. Return only the most recent results in the response.
o popular: Return only the most popular results in the response.
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=Twitter&result_type=mixed
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=twitterapi&result_type=popular
* Example: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=justin+bieber&result_type=recent
Please correct me if I am wrong anywhere.
Thanks and Regards,
Abhay Dandekar
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// JavaScript Document
$(document).ready(function(){
// start twitter API
$.getJSON('http://twitter.com/status/user_timeline/YOUR_NAME.json?count=10&callback=?', function(data){
$.each(data, function(index, item){
$('#twitter').append('<div class="tweet"><p>' + item.text.linkify() + '</p><p><strong>' + relative_time(item.created_at) + '</strong></p></div>');
});
});
function relative_time(time_value) {
var values = time_value.split(" ");
time_value = values[1] + " " + values[2] + ", " + values[5] + " " + values[3];
var parsed_date = Date.parse(time_value);
var relative_to = (arguments.length > 1) ? arguments[1] : new Date();
var delta = parseInt((relative_to.getTime() - parsed_date) / 1000);
delta = delta + (relative_to.getTimezoneOffset() * 60);
var r = '';
if (delta < 60) {
r = 'a minute ago';
} else if(delta < 120) {
r = 'couple of minutes ago';
} else if(delta < (45*60)) {
r = (parseInt(delta / 60)).toString() + ' minutes ago';
} else if(delta < (90*60)) {
r = 'an hour ago';
} else if(delta < (24*60*60)) {
r = '' + (parseInt(delta / 3600)).toString() + ' hours ago';
} else if(delta < (48*60*60)) {
r = '1 day ago';
} else {
r = (parseInt(delta / 86400)).toString() + ' days ago';
}
return r;
}
String.prototype.linkify = function() {
return this.replace(/[A-Za-z]+:\/\/[A-Za-z0-9-_]+\.[A-Za-z0-9-_:%&\?\/.=]+/, function(m) {
return m.link(m);
});
};// end twitter API
}); // ***** end functions *****
</script>
<div id="twitter">
Target Div
</div>
Are you trying to poll tweets in real time? Doesn't twitter have a limit on API req/hour. I think you'd hit that pretty fast.
Why don't you just make a call to the API every 5 seconds and grab the top 1 tweet.