Gokce Kinayoglu

Update: Version 1.2 is available to download, adding support for custom Twitter API keys. This was requested by some users to increase reliability. Version 1.0 and 1.1 do not work any more due to changes in Twitter's API.

Searchtweet is a mxj external that searches twitter with a given keyword and returns a desired maximum number of most recent posts, with username, date and twitter text body routed to separate outlets. The object returns a specified number of most recent twitter posts that contain a given keyword, #hashtag, or @usertag.

https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search

Unless custom API keys are entered, the plugin will default to its own authentication keyset. This may limit the number of searches per given time. Eg. You must optimize your search frequency to avoid hitting the API rate-limits. (Ex. Do not connect a [metro 10] to the inlet, your IP will be banned in no second)

Advanced search queries also work:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/71577-using-advanced-search

Searchtweet uses the twitter4j library (http://twitter4j.org) programmed by Yusuke Yamamoto.

Note:
Unless custom API keys are entered, the plugin will default to its own authentication keyset. This may limit the number of searches per given time. Eg. You must optimize your search frequency to avoid hitting the API rate-limits. (Ex. Do not connect a [metro 10] to the inlet, your IP will be banned in no second)

For more info:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq

searchtweet-design-patches-that-respond-to-twitter-posts

Excellent object and tool! Forgive my naivete as the world of APIs is pretty new to me, but is there a way to limit the output of this device to a single language? The patch I'm working on is mostly pertinent in English.

The plugin works using the basic search functionality of the twitter API. I do not know if there is a way to limit searches based on country or language through specific search keywords.

Also, the twit4j offers a push-based update functionality which I did not implement in this plugin. If there are any exciting projects that needs that kind of a more "realtime" update feel free to contact me in person or here.

Hi RT, and all,
The plugin works using the basic search functionality of the twitter API. I do not know if there is a way to limit searches based on country or language through specific search keywords.
Also, the twit4j offers a push-based update functionality which I did not implement in this plugin. If there are any exciting projects that needs that kind of a more "realtime" update feel free to contact me in person or here.


Thank you Gokce! I will let you know if I get anything interesting working.

Just for a clarification, if you are using the standard search parameters on Twitter you can search by language and by region. If you are using the Twitter Streaming API, however, the query language is different. I have yet to dig into this patch, but I wanted to see if I could be of service.

For the standard search terms, using lang:en should limit your searches to english only.

For geolocation use: geocode:40.7484918,-73.98428659999999,25km. You will need to use a third party service to determine the Latitude and Longitude of your location (The one I posed is Manhattan) and you can use the km parameter to alter the distance.

 for finding a latitude and longitude. Just enter an address and it should output what you want.

Hopefully that helps a little to answer your question, @Gokce.

Just for a clarification, if you are using the standard search parameters on Twitter you can search by language and by region. If you are using the Twitter Streaming API, however, the query language is different. I have yet to dig into this patch, but I wanted to see if I could be of service. 

For the standard search terms, using lang:en should limit your searches to english only. 

For geolocation use:  geocode:40.7484918,-73.98428659999999,25km. You will need to use a third party service to determine the Latitude and Longitude of your location (The one I posed is Manhattan) and you can use the km parameter to alter the distance. 

I like to use http://geocoder.us/ for finding a latitude and longitude. Just enter an address and it should output what you want. 

Hopefully that helps a little to answer your question, @Gokce.


Thanks for the information David! This is amazing.

The search parameters indeed work well with the script! There is a small trick. Max will interpret the commas in the message as separators. The message sent to the script needs to be formatted as shown below with backslashes before each comma, such as:

search geocode:40.748433\,-73.985656\,1km 1

Put that in a message box and wire it to the mxj directly. (Do not use the search box in the example patch.) This should give the most recent tweet sent from an area within 1km radius around the Empire State Building in New York. Tested, and here's the result I received:

"RT @danisnotonfire: I'm currently having that classic tourist fangirl moment where I realise I know all the buildings in Manhattan from every movie/game ever. "

Looks like she is in New York. Exciting! Now go play!

"fangirlDANosaur"
"RT @danisnotonfire: I'm currently having that classic tourist fangirl moment where I realise I know all the buildings in Manhattan from every movie/game ever. "

search geocode:40.748433,-73.985656,1km 1

Thanks for your precisions about language filtering and geocode. I would like to filter the tweets according to their language. But, as "search geocode:40.748433\,-73.985656\,1km 1" works perfectly for me, "search voyage lang:fr 1" returns the following errors :

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: does not contain an int

at com.cycling74.max.Atom.getInt(Atom.java:572)

at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:34)

Thanks a lot if you would have an idea...

PS: Gokce: I left a question on your FB page about language filtering, before having found this page, sorry :)

Thanks for your precisions about language filtering and geocode. I would like to filter the tweets according to their language. But, as "search geocode:40.748433\,-73.985656\,1km 1" works perfectly for me, "search voyage lang:fr 1" returns the following errors : 

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: does not contain an int
at com.cycling74.max.Atom.getInt(Atom.java:572)
at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:34)

Did I miss something ?
Thanks a lot if you would have an idea...
-Thierry

PS: Gokce: I left a question on your FB page about language filtering, before having found this page, sorry :)


I finally found the right syntax to filter by language, which is: search "voyage lang:fr" 10

I finally found the right syntax to filter by language, which is: search "voyage lang:fr" 10
It needed quotes.
Thanks, Best
-Thierry


Thanks for your precisions about language filtering and geocode. I would like to filter the tweets according to their language. But, as "search geocode:40.748433,-73.985656,1km 1" works perfectly for me, "search voyage lang:fr 1" returns the following errors :

Hi Gotkce and all, is there any advice you can give me on a similar kind of thing I'm doing here? 

https://cycling74.com/forums/text-input-for-maxmsp

Hi Gotkce and all, is there any advice you can give me on a similar kind of thing I'm doing here? https://cycling74.com/forums/text-input-for-maxmsp


I suggest you to load the plugin and play with it before starting out with your project. Once you are able to get the text output that you need from searchtweet, the rest is figuring out how to "parse" it. There are several functions that does exactly that in MSP and there are also some external libraries for string parsing and search. Good luck!

Hi - looks like something has gone sour with the api - now i get this message:

TwitterException{exceptionCode=[26d84cad-002e486e], statusCode=410, retryAfter=0, rateLimitStatus=null, version=2.2.0}

We will begin 410ing inbound API v1 traffic now. We will gradually ramp up over the next several minutes. More info: 

Have a show using this object in a few weeks, so if anyone has an idea, i would be very grateful and have no other choice but to buy you some beers in NYC!

We will begin 410ing inbound API v1 traffic now. We will gradually ramp up over the next several minutes. More info: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#17750 

Have a show using this object in a few weeks, so if anyone has an idea, i would be very grateful and have no other choice but to buy you some beers in NYC!


I will take a look at this - hopefully soon!

Hey, I too noticed that my project is dead due to the API change. This is going to kill my graduation project pretty much =/

I downloaded the latest stable version of twitter4j, updated the twitter4j.jars in the libs folder, added twitter4j.examples to a Java project in Eclipse, following 

http://compusition.com/web/articles/maxmsp-eclipse,

 and added only the following to SearchTweets.jar:

If I just copied the SearchTweets.class (not java) file to the Max folder, it just returned "Could not load class 'SearchTweets'"

So I also tried to to create an object in Max: [mxj twitter4j.examples.search.SearchTweets] and I'm getting the following in the Max window:

(mxj) Class twitter4j.examples.search.SearchTweets is not a subclass of com/cycling74/max/MaxObject

Do I need to work on adding INLETS and OUTLETS? Did I miss out anything else I should add?

What can I do to get this working? Any help would be supremely appreciated!!

I downloaded the latest stable version of twitter4j, updated the twitter4j.jars in the libs folder, added twitter4j.examples to a Java project in Eclipse, following http://compusition.com/web/articles/maxmsp-eclipse, and added only the following to SearchTweets.jar:
import com.cycling74.max.*;
and
... extends MaxObject {

So I also tried to to create an object in Max: [mxj twitter4j.examples.search.SearchTweets] and I'm getting the following in the Max window:
(mxj) Class twitter4j.examples.search.SearchTweets is not a subclass of com/cycling74/max/MaxObject

Do I need to work on adding INLETS and OUTLETS? Did I miss out anything else I should add?
What can I do to get this working? Any help would be supremely appreciated!!


Guys do not panic. I will check this today.

Done :). Please download and *test* the new version. User discretion advised! Let me know how it works.

First off - thanks so much for even taking a look - i'll never forget my 12th grade math teacher's sign on her desk - a crisis on your part is not a crisis for me!

very cool - and please let me know if you are ever in NYC - you have some libations coming your way.

You, sir, are aces.. and spades.. and I can't really explain how much this means to me! Let's just say you saved my college Graduation Project - and also me, from breaking my head with Java and Eclipse.. Hehe..

DRKOSS put it very well, and I agree 100% :)

I'm all the way over in India, but if you do ever pop over here, I will be glad to oblige a trip around the city to see the sights and sounds of fair Bangalore, followed by drinks.

Now to get the final bits of my project wrapped up, cheers!

You are welcome. It just took slightly more effort than I expected because twitter added an application authorization requirement which was not there before. But you should really thank twitter4j and its author, who seems to have kept his java library up to date till now.

Can anyone confirm if this is still working? I can't seem to get it to even load up on max 6 windows 8.1

A blank max window opens up and the patcher does not load.

Hmm, doesnt seem to be working for me. Here's what's in the Max window:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authentication credentials are missing. See 

    at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.ensureAuthorizationEnabled(TwitterBaseImpl.java:200)

    at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1833)

    at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:282)

    at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:38)

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authentication credentials are missing. See http://twitter4j.org/configuration.html for the detail.
	at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.ensureAuthorizationEnabled(TwitterBaseImpl.java:200)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1833)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:282)
	at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:38)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authentication credentials are missing. See http://twitter4j.org/configuration.html for the detail.
	at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.ensureAuthorizationEnabled(TwitterBaseImpl.java:200)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1833)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:282)
	at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:38)
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Authentication credentials are missing. See http://twitter4j.org/configuration.html for the detail.
	at twitter4j.TwitterBaseImpl.ensureAuthorizationEnabled(TwitterBaseImpl.java:200)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1833)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:282)
	at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:38)


Yeah something must have changed with the API, it's not working for me anymore either. It's a shame, I was really hoping to utilize it in my thesis project for school.

Try downloading the latest version of Twitter4J (

 and replace the old by the new in your java folder, it works again for me !

Try downloading the latest version of Twitter4J (http://twitter4j.org/en/index.html) and replace the old by the new in your java folder, it works again for me !


Is this still working? I keep getting an error in my max window even after changing the Twitter4J java files to the new ones.

It's working for me but indeed you have some warnings from log4j the first time you run it.

Just updated the pack with the new twit4j libraries. Tested in Max5 and seems to be working fine again. NNMAR what are the error messages you are getting?

Hi Gokce, thanks for your work on this. I get a 'Could not load class 'searchtweet' -error. Is there suppose to be a searchtweet.class in the zip file? You have it in the maxobjects download, but i guess that is the old one that doesn't work anymore? Thanks again.

, when I do the first search, I get log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientlmpl)

Then it goes on with Please initialize the log4j system properly and see the logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

Thanks GOKCE, when I do the first search, I get log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (twitter4j.internal.http.HttpClientlmpl)

Then it goes on with Please initialize the log4j system properly and see the logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.


The readme says "copy the searchtweet.class under [maxmsp]/Cycling '74/java/classes folder"... there is no searchtweet.class file included in the current zip file?

Thanks Matthew, I must have erased the class file accidentally while rushing the update. Now all files are back in place.

Hey ! I have followed all the steps and tried to run the patch: it opens, but when I search for something, I get this error:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/appengine/api/urlfetch/HTTPRequest

at twitter4j.AlternativeHttpClientImpl.handleRequest(AlternativeHttpClientImpl.java:43)

at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.request(HttpClientBase.java:53)

at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.get(HttpClientBase.java:71)

at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1968)

at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:293)

at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:48)

Do you know what this means? It's probably something really stupid that I'm missing, but I'm just starting out and I could really use some help.

Hey ! I have followed all the steps and tried to run the patch: it opens, but when I search for something, I get this error:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/appengine/api/urlfetch/HTTPRequest
at twitter4j.AlternativeHttpClientImpl.handleRequest(AlternativeHttpClientImpl.java:43)
at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.request(HttpClientBase.java:53)
at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.get(HttpClientBase.java:71)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1968)
at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:293)
at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:48)
Do you know what this means? It's probably something really stupid that I'm missing, but I'm just starting out and I could really use some help.
Thanks!


Hi there, I've installed the latest version of twitter4j (4.0.2) and replaced the files in the java>lib folder.. I still get all these errors:

sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Relevant discussions can be found on the Internet at:

http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=506c3b98

http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=105d1087

TwitterException{exceptionCode=[506c3b98-105d1087 63e3f388-fb44fc20 63e3f388-fb44fc20 63e3f388-fb44fc20], statusCode=-1, message=null, code=-1, retryAfter=-1, rateLimitStatus=null, version=4.0.2}

    at twitter4j.HttpClientImpl.handleRequest(HttpClientImpl.java:178)

    at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.request(HttpClientBase.java:53)

    at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.get(HttpClientBase.java:71)

    at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1556)

    at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:247)

    at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:48)

Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid c

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)

    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)

    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)

    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)

    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)

    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)

    at twitter4j.HttpResponseImpl.(HttpResponseImpl.java:35)

    at twitter4j.HttpClientImpl.handleRequest(HttpClientImpl.java:142)

Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

    at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(Unknown Source)

    at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(Unknown Source)

    at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(Unknown Source)

    at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source)

Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

    at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(Unknown Source)

    at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(Unknown Source)

Failed to search tweets: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I haven't seen anyone post about these specific errors here.

Thanks to anyone who can help me with this!

sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Relevant discussions can be found on the Internet at:
	http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=506c3b98 or
	http://www.google.co.jp/search?q=105d1087
TwitterException{exceptionCode=[506c3b98-105d1087 63e3f388-fb44fc20 63e3f388-fb44fc20 63e3f388-fb44fc20], statusCode=-1, message=null, code=-1, retryAfter=-1, rateLimitStatus=null, version=4.0.2}
	at twitter4j.HttpClientImpl.handleRequest(HttpClientImpl.java:178)
	at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.request(HttpClientBase.java:53)
	at twitter4j.HttpClientBase.get(HttpClientBase.java:71)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.get(TwitterImpl.java:1556)
	at twitter4j.TwitterImpl.search(TwitterImpl.java:247)
	at searchtweet.search(searchtweet.java:48)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid c
ertification path to requested target
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
	at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)
	at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(Unknown Source)
	at twitter4j.HttpResponseImpl.(HttpResponseImpl.java:35)
	at twitter4j.HttpClientImpl.handleRequest(HttpClientImpl.java:142)
	... 5 more
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(Unknown Source)
	at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(Unknown Source)
	... 20 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(Unknown Source)
	at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(Unknown Source)
	... 26 more
Failed to search tweets: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target


I haven't seen anyone post about these specific errors here.
Thanks to anyone who can help me with this!


Hi Gokce, first of all thank you so much for the searchtweet object! It is the backbone of my duo "Twittercore", we would have missed a lot of fun without it :) We are using it since 2012 for our performances, working great so far.

My questions is: We performed tonight and after one set got a 429 error from the Twitter API in the max window. Couldn't search for tweets any more. Waited for some time, no luck. Tried again later from a different IP address and it seemed to work again. We also performed yesterday for way longer then today without problems. If I understood correctly twitter allows 180 requests in a window of 15 min now and I'm very sure we didn't even come close to a 100.

Do you have an idea what that could be? Does searchtweet function like a regular user in the eyes of the API and can we get banned? How about two people using the object at the same moment on different locations, do their requests count like they are coming from the same person? Say both do a 100 in 15 min, does that count as 200 then for twitter because we use the same object in max?

I'm using max 5.1.9 / searchtweet 1.1b, twitter4j 4.0.1

We have quite a big gig in Cape Town next week (we live in Amsterdam, Netherlands) and are pretty nervous about running into problems suddenly.

Hi Gokce, first of all thank you so much for the searchtweet object! It is the backbone of my duo "Twittercore", we would have missed a lot of fun without it :) We are using it since 2012 for our performances, working great so far. 

My questions is: We performed tonight and after one set got a 429 error from the Twitter API in the max window. Couldn't search for tweets any more. Waited for some time, no luck. Tried again later from a different IP address and it seemed to work again. We also performed yesterday for way longer then today without problems. If I understood correctly twitter allows 180 requests in a window of 15 min now and I'm very sure we didn't even come close to a 100.
Do you have an idea what that could be? Does searchtweet function like a regular user in the eyes of the API and can we get banned? How about two people using the object at the same moment on different locations, do their requests count like they are coming from the same person? Say both do a 100 in 15 min, does that count as 200 then for twitter because we use the same object in max?
I'm using max 5.1.9 / searchtweet 1.1b, twitter4j 4.0.1
I'm on a mac, OS 10.9.4

We have quite a big gig in Cape Town next week (we live in Amsterdam, Netherlands) and are pretty nervous about running into problems suddenly.
Thank's again an hope you can help us!


would you mind releasing the source so it can be implemented with more items.

hi Gokce,
would you mind releasing the source so it can be implemented with more items.
Thanks


Sorry for not responding earlier. I do not get notifications when there is a post on this thread. I will look into this problem soon. About releasing the source code my answer is, the code is so simple that anyone who understands how mxj extensions are programmed and compiled can rewrite it in minutes because it is basically wrapping the twit4j library (!). For the others I do not recommended that they touch the code and create rogue versions. :)

The 429 error means "Too many search requests". this behaviour is highly anticipated and the only way to deal with this is to have the code use custom search "keys" for each plugin user. Now the same key is used practically for all users of the plugin. Therefore it seems that anybody who uses this app shares the same search quota. This results in intermittent errors.

I will look into this in the next week and hopefully come back with a better version altogether - that allows realtime (JSON) feeds from twitter, instead of having to ping the object each time one needs a result.

Thanks for your patience in advance ;) !


If you eventually could add the option to enter our own search key, that would be great. thanks.

If you eventually could add the option to enter our own search key, that would be great.  thanks.


Liselise the mxj comes with the necessary Twitter4j classes. You do not need to seperately install Twitter4j. Perhaps you have a version mismatch. The current version (1.1b) of searchtweet comes with twitter4j version 4.0.1 .

so a simple source code will have gave me a base to understand the wrap... and expand it in eclipse

Waiting for your version with user key, perhaps with source...

Well Gokce,
there's simple and simple.
so a simple source code will have gave me a base to understand the wrap... and expand it in eclipse
I'm not very fluent in java...
Waiting for your version with user key, perhaps with source...
Thanks for the work


Sorry guys, it has been an incredibly busy at work the last few months. I intended to set aside some time to write a live feed plugin, but it never happened. I'm now working on a version which will accept custom keys as Matthew Lewis suggested. It should not take too long. Just writing to let you know I did not forget about you :)

There you go. Version 1.2 is up there, now allowing custom Twitter API keys. Better very late than never!

I'm trying to create a max patch to "sonify" data from twitter. What I'd like to do is find the number of times a specified hashtag or keyword is mentioned, within a specific timeframe, and use that number in my Max/MSP project.

The searchtweet object, as is, doesn't allow me to get the information from twitter that I'm trying to use.

I'm wondering if you could point me in the right direction. Or maybe you know how I would alter the searchtweet java code to get this data from twitter?

I hope I'm making sense, and would really appreciate any help or words of advice!!

Hi Gokce,
I'm trying to create a max patch to "sonify" data from twitter. What I'd like to do is find the number of times a specified hashtag or keyword is mentioned, within a specific timeframe, and use that number in my Max/MSP project.

I hope I'm making sense, and would really appreciate any help or words of advice!!


Searchtweet - Design patches that respond to twitter posts.