Twitter

12/08/2015: While I vouch that I'll fix issues as they arise and accept pull requests (preferred!), I unfortunately don't have the time to add additional functionality to this package.

Twitter.jl is a Julia package to work with the Twitter API v1.1. Currently, only the REST API methods are supported; streaming APIs are supported by Requests.jl, but the accompanying methods have not been implemented at this time.

Twitter.jl API

All functions have required arguments for those parameters required by Twitter and an options keyword argument to provide a Dict{AbstractString, AbstractString} of optional parameters Twitter API documentation. Most function calls will return either a Julia Dict or a typed Array. Bad requests will return the raw Response composite type from Requests.jl for debugging purposes.

DataFrame methods are defined for functions returning composite types: TWEETS, PLACES, LISTS, and USERS.

Authentication

Authentication is accomplished by creating an application on dev.twitter.com. Once your application is setup, you can access your consumer_key, consumer_token, oauth_token and oauth_secret from the "Details" tab of the application.

Using Twitter

twitterauth("6nOtpXmf...",
            "sES5Zlj096S...",
            "98689850-Hj...",
            "UroqCVpWKIt...")

This package does not currently support on-the-fly, pop-up a browser-type OAuth authentication.

Code examples

See runtests.jl for example function calls.

Testing

Given the authenticated nature of the Twitter API, and the ability to get banned for rapid fire API calls (like a bot would) it's unlikely that testing will be built into Travis-CI. Rather, the runtests.jl file can be validated manually to ensure a specific function works, as well as serving as examples in lieu of detailed documentation.

Licensing

Twitter.jl is licensed under the MIT "Expat" license

TODO

General:

• Incorporate cursoring for methods returning many pages of results (MOST IMPORTANT TO SOLVE)
• Create Streaming API function calls
• Make code & interface more Julian, clean up any oddities

Nice to have (timeline uncertain):

• Clean up column types for DataFrame methods
• DataFrame methods for generic Dict responses
• Keyword arguments for returning DataFrame (to remove step in data retrieval process)
• Ability to save authentication keys to file, remove need for authentication each time
• Create detailed documentation
• Create OAuth Twitter authentication functions