Count Option in Twitter4J getFriendsList - twitter4j

Question

According to twitter documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/friends/list
URL, I can change the value of "count"(The number of users to return per page) from default 20 to 200. But how can I specify the count option while calling getFriendsList api using Twitter4J java library.

Answer 1

According to the documentation if you're using getFriendsList you can only request up to 20 at a time. Might be a limitation of this java API
PagableResponseList<User> getFriendsList(long userId,
long cursor)
throws TwitterException
cursor - Causes the results to be broken into pages of no more than 20 records at a time.

Answer 2

The count parameter is not used in Twitter4J at the moment (as of 3.0.3).
This is what the code in question looks like:
public PagableResponseList<User> getFriendsList(long userId, long cursor) throws TwitterException {
return factory.createPagableUserList(get(conf.getRestBaseURL()
+ "friends/list.json?user_id=" + userId
+ "&cursor=" + cursor));
}
and
public PagableResponseList<User> getFriendsList(String screenName, long cursor) throws TwitterException {
return factory.createPagableUserList(get(conf.getRestBaseURL()
+ "friends/list.json?screen_name=" + screenName
+ "&cursor=" + cursor));
}

Answer 3

In order to retrieve more users with Twitter4J you'll have to use cursors and make multiple api calls, e.g.:
long cursor = -1;
PagableResponseList<User> friends;
do {
friends = twitter.getFriendsList(userId, cursor);
// collect users be adding to list etc...
} while ((cursor = followers.getNextCursor()) != 0);
N.B. A cursor value of zero signifies no further results.

Answer 4

Your code should look this way :
long cursor=-1;
int count=0;
while(cursor!=0)
{
PagableResponseList<User> friendlist= twitter.getFriendsList(user.getScreenName(),cursor);
int sizeoffreindlist= friendlist.size();
for(int i=0;i<sizeoffreindlist;i++)
{
//System.out.println(friendlist.get(i));
//Your Logic goes here
}
cursor=friendlist.getNextCursor();
System.out.println("====> New cursor value"+cursor);
}
Twitter responses cursor value 0 when no other pagable response i.e there are is no more friend list

Answer 5

The fix for this was checked into the code on 4/29/2014 (see this commit) and is available in the 4.0.2 Snapshot build today. So this will be part of v 4.0.2 and above.