Twitter4J - Looking up profile details without logging in | ansaurus

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Twitter4J - Looking up profile details without logging in

Hello all,

I've been using Twitter4J for a quite a while now, but I can't seem to find this particular feature.

I want to be able to search on a name, and when the certain user is on twitter, I want to retrieve basic information such as tweets, followers (like you can access via http) - but how to do is in Twitter4J? Neither the code examples or the source could help me.

Thanks,

William van Doorn

+2 A:

Look at the following: Twitter4J.api.UserMethods That has the methods you seek. The Twitter class directly implements it.

Woot4Moo 2010-05-08 13:43:25

Thanks, and I guess I want .searchUsers() here? Does this work as I expect?EDIT: How do I access these methods? I can't make an instance and they aren't static.

wvd 2010-05-08 13:47:11

wvd thats the interface,so obviously you cannot instantiate it. See my edits

Woot4Moo 2010-05-08 13:52:05

I don't understand you? Could you give me a fast example of how to use it.

wvd 2010-05-08 13:53:10

You want a fast example of the difference between an interface and a class in Java?

Woot4Moo 2010-05-08 13:53:58

No, but TwitterFactory().getInstance() gives me a Twitter instance, however if I use .searchUsers() it says that I'm not authorized, this is what I mean. I don't want to authorize -- is this possible?

wvd 2010-05-08 13:55:24

I've never used Twitter4J so I honestly don't know. Maybe you should just abide by the security policy set in place instead of trying to be clever about it

Woot4Moo 2010-05-08 13:56:20

I'll create a Twitter account and try it then. Thanks, I'll mark this as the answer.

wvd 2010-05-08 13:56:57

Thanks, let me know if this does resolve it

Woot4Moo 2010-05-08 13:58:36

Thanks, after creating an account it fixed my problem!

wvd 2010-05-08 14:07:52

A:

Hi Wvd, did u find the answer for this ques?

could you please provide the code.

Madhu 2010-08-02 07:42:01

please see comments under my answer

Woot4Moo 2010-08-02 13:25:43

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