Max reading specific Tweets?

bmputz's icon

Currently I am working on a patch to be able to read specific tweets and will increment a counter based on the specific tweet.

I have been searching high and low how do do this. I came across a tutorial how to send a tweet, but I dont quite get how to receive specific tweets.

I came across an object dot.xmlread and am unsure if this is reliable to constantly read it.

If there are any suggestions that would be awesome

thanks

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon

There's a (pure) Python library for interfacing with Twitter - I used it here:

The library works in Jython, so you can use this:

mst1228's icon

Nick,

Would you be able to provide a little more help with this Jython/Twitter Library setup? I also am working on a patch that can receive tweets and speak them aloud using aka.speech.

Any advice or direction would be appreciated. Thanks.

Gokce Kinayoglu's icon

Here's an easy to use mxj external I made:

Gokce

mantaraffu's icon

hi! I've some question about your object. how frequently the mxj.searchtweet can takes data from twitter? and it takes the top tweet on the top of the timeline too? can I use more of this object in the same patch without trouble like delaied data?
thanks

Wetterberg's icon

while I'd like to know this, too... isn't this rather easy to test?

mantaraffu's icon

how? checking the twitter timeline? when you search for very diffuse words it could be frustrating. Knowing the min search frequency can be usefull.
anyway, I like this object. does exist other similar?

Abao's icon

@GOKCE this is useful, thanks!