I want to integrate Twitter in my iPhone App for getting some tweets of a particular twitter account. Please suggest me the best idea to do that ?
NOTE:
1) I just want to show the tweets from a particular account. Any short
method will be help full rather than full twitter integration
2) For now I am using RSS to get the tweets but somewhere I've heard
that RSS twitter feeds are very unreliable and they are going to stop
support for RSS soon.
Regards !!
If you don't want to use a full implementation, you just need to perform a query to the statuses of the specific user
For example, to get the last 20 tweet from charliesheen with ASIHTTPRequest
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/charliesheen.xml"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request startAsynchronous];
- (void)requestFinished:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request {
// this is called if the request is successful
}
- (void)requestFailed:(ASIHTTPRequest *)request {
// this is called if the request fails
}
If don't want to use xml, just change it to json
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/charliesheen.json
https://github.com/jaanus/PlainOAuth/tree/27a8631a5e32c36ea40d532c8343fafe7cc5e95c
And download the source project..
This links provide you last five tweets..
Got the answer.
- I added MGTwitterEngine into my project.
Here is the code :[MyViewController's -(void)viewDidLoad]-
MGTwitterEngine *twitterEngine = [[MGTwitterEngine alloc] initWithDelegate:self];
[twitterEngine getUserTimelineFor:username sinceID:0 startingAtPage:0 count:10];
If you guys need some more clarification feel free to ask. I'll try to help you out as much as I can.
Regards!!
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i want to like a post in Facebook, i have post_id , and i am not able to find the FQL Query for liking particular post from the Facebook developer page in IOS SDK.
From Facebook developer page, it says that you can like a post with the used of HTTP POST method it means we can't use GraphAPI or fql.query to like a post.
Can anyone please share HTTP POST URL to like a post in Facebook.
is anyone here who develop the like button functionality for Facebook post using custom button in iOS.
Thanks in advance.
Here is an example if you are using Facebook SDK in iOS:
[FBRequestConnection startWithGraphPath:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#/likes", post_id]
parameters:[NSDictionary dictionary]
HTTPMethod:#"POST"
completionHandler:^(FBRequestConnection *connection,
id result,
NSError *error)
{
if (error)
{
NSLog(#"Error: %#", [error localizedDescription]);
}
else
{
NSLog(#"Result: %#", result);
}
}];
I see you are asking for fields(parameters) for HTTP POST URL. An HTTP POST request does not (usually) contain parameters on which you are probably used to when you pass them in a classic GET request such as ?param1=value¶m2=value after the script name in some URL.
POST request sends data to the server inside the message body, check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_(HTTP)
Now that you know that, this is what you can do:
You CAN get the number of likes with a classic GET request, an URL that you can paste into any web browser and get the response, for example:
https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924000_605362559477282/likes?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
This url will give you a response with all the people who liked that post/photo.
You can leave out the ?access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx if you know the post/photo is public as this one is (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=605362542810617&set=a.260905783922963.82517.260895413924000).
If it is not you need to generate one actual access_token(also for posting you NEED to generate one) and for testing you can do it here: https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
Now if you want to actually like the photo you can't simply form an URL that you can copy/paste inside your browser and which will trigger the like action. That's because browsers do not do POST requests, you need to do it trough code as Ivo Patrick Tudor Weiss suggested or eventually for testing purposes you can do it with curl utility from console like this:
curl --data "access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924005362559477282/likes
and you can undo the like with HTTP DELETE ... like this:
curl --data "access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" -X DELETE https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924000_605362559477282/likes
- UPDATE, for additional questions made by OP in the comments:
It is of course possible to use ASIHTTPRequest to make GET, POST and DELETE HTTP requests. However I would not advise the use of that library for your case. One reason is that the author of ASIHTTPRequest has stopped working on the library, and the other reason is that Facebook SDK for iOS is a better choice since with it you have many other things already taken care for you.
That being said here are the examples:
First type either one of these three combinations depending on what you want:
Get all people who liked the specific post:
(for simplicity I omitted the access_token here but you can append it to the URL if needed)
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924000_605362559477282/likes"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
Like the specific post yourself:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924000_605362559477282/likes"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request appendPostData:[#"access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
//[request setRequestMethod:#"POST"]; // <--- NOT NEEDED since it is the default if you previously called appendPostData
Unlike the post:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"https://graph.facebook.com/260895413924000_605362559477282/likes"];
ASIHTTPRequest *request = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url];
[request appendPostData:[#"access_token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[request buildPostBody];
[request setRequestMethod:#"DELETE"];
Then execute the actual request:
[request startSynchronous];
NSString *response = [request responseString];
NSLog(#"Response: %#", response);
Remember synchronous request is OK for testing but your GUI is going to be unresponsive if you use it on the main thread in an actual app. Learn how to do an asynchronous request here: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/How-to-use
As for your iOS example. It would be too much to write all the code here. And you already got the answer from Ivo Patrick Tudor Weiss which is perfectly correct. The only thing that is missing is the boilerplate code that you need to have to authenticate on Facebook and establish an FBSession.
I would advise you to go over this material here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/getting-started/facebook-sdk-for-ios/
Download the latest SDK which contains also the sample code, and follow the tutorial on Facebook web. Then when you get the basics configured, get back to the answer you got from Ivo.
You can use Graph API to post a like to Facebook post. As it said in documentation here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/
To create a like you need to issue a HTTP POST request to the POST_ID/likes connection with the publish_stream permission. You can suppress the notification created when liking a Post by passing a notify parameter with value of false.
I'm trying to implement Like via the facebook open-graph-api with the Facebook iOS SDK 3.0.
Everything seems to work except the FbGraphObject and that's because I have no idea how it should look because this clearly does not work.
What I'm trying to do is to like a url posted as an object. A simple Like with via the open-graph.
The error message I get the the code below is:
The action you're trying to publish is invalid because it does not specify any
reference objects. At least one of the following properties must be specified: object.
The code I use is this:
FBGraphObject *objectToLike = [[FBGraphObject alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:facebookLike.titleLabel.text]];
FBRequest *requestLike = [[FBRequest alloc]initForPostWithSession:[FBSession activeSession] graphPath:#"me/og.likes" graphObject:objectToLike];
FBRequestConnection *connection = [[FBRequestConnection alloc] init];
[connection addRequest:requestLike
completionHandler:
^(FBRequestConnection *connection, id result, NSError *error) {
if (!error &&
result) {
DLog(#"NothingWentWrong");
}
DLog(#"MajorError: %#", error);
}
];
[connection start];
UPDATE:
Checked some more info and my guess it to use this method:
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sdk-reference/iossdk/3.0/class/FBGraphObject/#//api/name/graphObject
To somehow create an object. It's the graphObject method that I probably need to do something with. Any help at all would be appreciated.
I've actually manage to create a simple and quite dirty solution of this.
The solution does not seem optimal but it's currently a working solution.
If anybody has used the explorer tool on facebook on this url:
https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/
You know how the URL will look like when facebook is sharing a like. It has to have the URL and an access-token.
So my solution became just to disregard sending anything from the Facebook SDK and just send a post request to the same URL that I've used in the explorer tool.
There seems to be some referencing to it on the facebooks docs if you look closely and deep, but no one explains exactly how to actually make the connection, so this is my solution:
NSString *urlToLikeFor = facebookLike.titleLabel.text;
NSString *theWholeUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"https://graph.facebook.com/me/og.likes?object=%#&access_token=%#", urlToLikeFor, FBSession.activeSession.accessToken];
NSLog(#"TheWholeUrl: %#", theWholeUrl);
NSURL *facebookUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:theWholeUrl];
NSMutableURLRequest *req = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:facebookUrl];
[req setHTTPMethod:#"POST"];
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *err;
NSData *responseData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:req returningResponse:&response error:&err];
NSString *content = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[responseData bytes]];
NSLog(#"responseData: %#", content);
If you look at the code I just take the url and puts two dynamic strings in the url, one with the object-url and one with the access token. I create a URLRequest and make it a POST request, and the response from facebook gets logged so one actually can see if the like go through or not.
There might be some performance improvements that can be done with the actual requests but I will leave it up to you if you see any slowdowns.
I'm still interested in other solutions but this is the one I will use for now.
We don't currently support Like through our Graph API.
What you can look through is something like this :
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/actions/builtin/likes/
I’m not sure what initWithContentsOfURL does, but from the name I guess it tries to actually load content from a given URL(?).
You only have to give the URL as a text parameter – a URL is what represents an Open Graph object. Facebook will do the rest, scraping the page behind that URL and reading it’s OG meta tags, etc.
Maybe just this?
FBRequest *requestLike = [[FBRequest alloc]initForPostWithSession:[FBSession activeSession]
graphPath:#"me/og.likes"
graphObject:[NSURL URLWithString:facebookLike.titleLabel.text]];
I am writing an app that displays content from a Wordpress Site, and also allows reading of comments as well as posting comments. I am handling logging in to leave a comment and posting a comment via XML-RPC. All that is working quite well. However, this particular site does not allow anonymous commenting. So, I need to allow Registering for an account through the app.
Currently, I take the desired "username" and "email" and submit via POST as follows:
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.lamebook.com/wp-signup.php"]];
[request setPostValue:#"example" forKey:#"user_name"];
[request setPostValue:#"example#test.com" forKey:#"user_test"];
[request setDelegate:self];
[request setDidFinishSelector:#selector(registerFinished:)];
[request setDidFailSelector:#selector(registerFailed:)];
[request startAsynchronous];
This works in that it will create the account. However, my issue is that in my registerFinished method:
- (void)registerFinished:(ASIFormDataRequest *)request {
NSString *response = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[request responseData] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog(#"response %#", response);
}
The response is simply the HTML of the registration page. The HTML contains no information about the success or failure of the registration.
When using the webform the returned HTML has entries if any error occurred, for example:
<p class="error">Username must be at least 4 characters</p>
However, I do not seem to get these elements in the HTML I receive on the phone. Is there a proper way to do registration on the phone?
If you have access to the site, which I guess you do, you should be able to write a small plugin that let's you perform the registration by posting data to an URL specified by your plugin. This would be fairly simple, just hook up a function to the init action and check for the $_POST variable for any input.
Then simply use username_exists to check for existing users and wp_create_user to perform the registration. These functions will give return values that you in turn can send as a JSON reponse (or whatever is appropriate) back to you application.
In fact, my experience with XML-RPC is that it's somewhat limited, and not really up to date with the rest of WordPress, so I often make these little mini API's to handle situations like this. All that might have changed in the latest releases, however.
I'd like to know if it was possible, if a user wishes to subscribe to updates of my applications, take a form that is automatically subscribed to this newsletter at this address http://www.gseo.it/lists/?p=subscribe&id=2 (this is my mailing list with double opt in) but I'd like to know that a user can subscibe this newsletter directly from my iphone app.
Thanks
You could do an HTTP POST to that form using ASIFormDataRequest.
This isn't working code, but it might look something like:
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://www.gseo.it/lists/?p=subscribe&id=2"];
ASIFormDataRequest *request = [[[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:url] autorelease];
[request setPostValue:#"someone#example.com" forKey:#"email"];
[request startSynchronous];
You can get the library here.
Yes of course you can, open up a UIWebview with the the url provided. Don't forget that this may look not good in the iphone browser so providing a custom html code depending on the user agent may improve things.
I want to upload an image to my twitter profile using objective-c. I saw in the twitter API that I need to send a HTML post to http://twitter.com/account/update_profile_image.format and send the picture as a parameter. I am done with the authentication. I am stuck with the uploading. Maybe somebody can help me with sending the picture as a parameter?
You should be using NSURLRequests and NSURLConnection to perform the API requests. If this is true, all you need to do is create an NSMutableURLRequest, set it's URL to the Twitter image upload API URL, set the method to POST.
Then you'll need to create an NSData object to represent your image, which you can do using
NSData *myImageData = [[NSData alloc] initWithData:[myImage CGImage]];
I don't know what the parameter name is for Twitter's upload API, so for arguments sake, lets call it "image". The next thing you need to do is set the image data as the request's body for the "image" parameter, like this
NSString *bodyString = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"image=%#", [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:myImageData encoding:NSStringUTF8Encoding] autorelease]];
[myRequest setBody:bodyString];
Then you can just start your NSURLConnection with the request and it should upload.
If you’ve managed to get started, then this post on CocoaDev should help you set the uploading up. There’s a sample linked at the top too.
I recommend using ASIHTTPRequest
What is ASIHTTPRequest?
ASIHTTPRequest is an easy to use wrapper around the CFNetwork API that makes some of the more tedious aspects of communicating with web servers easier. It is written in Objective-C and works in both Mac OS X and iPhone applications.
It is suitable performing basic HTTP requests and interacting with REST-based services (GET / POST / PUT / DELETE). The included ASIFormDataRequest subclass makes it easy to submit POST data and files using multipart/form-data.
See this blog post for an example
Somthing like this
// See http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/df7102654c3077be/163abfbdcd24b8bf
NSString *postUrl = #"http://api.twitter.com/1/account/update_profile_image.json";
ASIFormDataRequest *req = [[ASIFormDataRequest alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL
URLWithString:postUrl]];
[req addRequestHeader:#"Authorization" value:[oAuth oAuthHeaderForMethod:#"POST"
andUrl:postUrl andParams:nil]];
[req setData:UIImageJPEGRepresentation(imageView.image, 0.8)
withFileName:#"myProfileImage.jpg"
andContentType:#"image/jpeg" forKey:#"image"];
[req startSynchronous];
NSLog(#"Got HTTP status code from Twitter after posting profile image: %d", [req
responseStatusCode]);
NSLog(#"Response string: %#", [req responseString]);
[req release];