Accessing the Twitter Streaming API with C

Question

I\'m trying to access the Streaming API with C, and am using the following code:

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Answer 1

The function curl_easy_perform() only returns the error code. To actually retrieve the data you'll have to set CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION to your own callback function.

Edit: You also can't use " -uJEggers2:password" in the URL string, you'll have to set the authentication options using CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLOPT_USERNAME and CURLOPT_PASSWORD.

Answer 2

edit:I think the difference between using google.com and the twitter API is that in this case you are trying to specify a password with " -u user:pass". Nowhere in the CURL API do I see this technique mentioned.

Instead pass the user and pass separately with an additional curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "user:pass") as described in section "NAMES and PASSWORDS OPTIONS" at http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html