How to get other user's mention timeline of twitter with twitter4j api? - twitter4j

Question

I'm struggling to get other user's mention timeline with twitter4j api. I could figure out that it's possible only to get other user's UserTimeline. It seems that there is no way to get other user's mention timeline
(I found that here - lookup "Interface TimelinesResources")
Is there way to get other user's mention timeline ???

Answer 1

You can get the MentionsTimeline using getMentionsTimeline() method of TimelineResources as a link you mentioned with some limitations of number of tweets returned.
Find below example of the example which will give you MentionsTimeline.
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
try {
User user = twitter.verifyCredentials();
List<Status> statuses = twitter.getMentionsTimeline();
System.out.println("Showing #" + user.getScreenName() + "'s mentions.");
for (Status status : statuses) {
System.out.println("#" + status.getUser().getScreenName() + " - " + status.getText());
}
} catch (TwitterException te) {
te.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Failed to get timeline: " + te.getMessage());
System.exit(-1);
}

Answer 2

You can use getUserTimeline() method of Twitter class.
References:
1. http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/Twitter.html
2. http://twitter4j.org/javadoc/twitter4j/Status.html

Answer 3

The Twitter API doesn't have an endpoint for viewing other users mentions (the statuses/mentions_timeline API returns only the mentions of the authenticated user).
You should use the search API, using as the query string the #screen_name of the user you want to get the mentions. Please note that the Twitter Search API may not return all mentions for a given user (it says that "the Search API is focused on relevance and not completeness").
So, using Twitter4j, you can get #NASA mentions using the following
Twitter twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance();
try {
Query query = new Query("#NASA");
QueryResult result;
do {
result = twitter.search(query);
List<Status> tweets = result.getTweets();
for (Status tweet : tweets) {
System.out.println("#" + tweet.getUser().getScreenName() + " - " + tweet.getText());
}
} while ((query = result.nextQuery()) != null);
System.exit(0);
} catch (TwitterException te) {
te.printStackTrace();
}