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Twitter.jl is a Julia package to work with the Twitter API v1.1. Currently, only the REST API methods are supported; streaming API endpoints aren't 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{String, String} 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 OAuth authentication.

Code examples

See runtests.jl for example function calls.

TODO

General:

• Incorporate cursoring for methods returning many pages of results (MOST IMPORTANT TO SOLVE)
• 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