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Drupal: posting photos from Drupal site to Facebook, Flickr and a twitter update -- all at same time. Looking for API.

Is there existing code available that provides functionality in Drupal to: - post from a Drupal website, photos into Facebook, Flickr accounts - view the photos also in the Drupal site from one of these sites (preferrably Flickr) - update a twitter feed to indicate photos have been published (If there isn't then I'm happy to reuse exist...

Problems with utf8, php, and mysql

I'm fetching the JSON timeline from twitter and parsing it through PHP. I then want to store the text in my database. The PHP script is in UTF8, I set the header to utf8 using this code, just in case: header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8'); The table in the database uses utf8_general_ci, ... Not even encoding the text usin...

How do I use Twitter Streaming API to track new followers of other accounts I don't have login information for?

I'm heavily basing my code off of this excellent tutorial at Ars Technica, so I am able to track my own new followers because my login information is hard-coded in. However, I'd like to track new followers of other people's accounts too. How can I do this without their passwords? import pycurl, json, StringIO STREAM_URL = "http://strea...

twitter_oauth is giving me Invalid / expired Token

I am using twitter_oauth gem for Rails to implement Twitter posting feature. I currently got my app to ask the user for Deny/Allow access of my app. However, after that when I try to publish, nothing happens. And, as I debug, I got the following error request: /1/statuses/update.json error: Invalid / expired Token I believe the consum...

Secrets of Twitter and Foursqaure Ajax-like.

Hey folks, Does anyone know how to make things like these: Im talking about theses "hidden ajax" on Twitter home (Top tweets) and Foursquare Home (Recent Activity), that is in constant update, but theres no request under tools line Firebug. Seems to be "hidden ajax". Does this exist? Thanks. check it out here: http://i.imgur.com/aN9X...

Twitter OAuth - Storing Tokens in MySql

Im using the Twitter OAuth class to connect to Twitter found here: Currently the script just uses the tokens supplied but doesnt store them in a database, i'd like the script to do this. This is what I currently have in my callback script: <?php /** * @file * Take the user when they return from Twitter. Get access tokens. * Verify...

One PHP Library for many social networking sites' authorization?

I know there are many libraries out there for OAuth and for specific sites' authentication and authorization. I'm wondering, is there any one-stop-shopping library that easily, robustly and perhaps modularly integrates with many popular social networking sites? It would be nice to have a single library, which, given a set of IDs (FB, tw...

Active blogs about Lazarus and/or FPC

I'm getting really pissed with the whole direction that "Emborcadero" is taking and I'm really going to invest in FPC/Lazarus. Went to the Lazarus Documentation page and found the following blogs: Lazarus Development - Up to date Adventures of a Newbie - FPC Wiki page On the road with Lazarus/Free Pascal - Up to date Porting to Lazaru...

How to setup a main menu layout in Android?

For the app that I'm making, I plan on having a main menu composed of 6 different icons, with 2 per line. This is very similar to the Twitter main menu layout seen here: So basically... how should I go about setting up the XML? LinearLayout, TableLayout? And then, what do I actually do to get the icons and text to be evenly spaced and ...

Twitter's new official Tweet Button : who's tested it?

I'm working on a website where a 'Tweet This' type button is essential (as is a facebook 'like'). About a week ago Twitter launched their own official Tweet button. I'm curious to hear anyone's experiences with using it, particularly in comparison to TweetMeme and John Resig's ReTweet script. I'm interested in any performance issues, a...

confused in switching from basic auth to oauth in twitter

Hi There, I am using My Twitter library from Andrus Scheffer. Using this library , i am just passing username and password to library file, and calling function was giving me proper results, but now as twitter has given deadline to turn off basic oauth. So I just need to switch to oauth. Currently i am hitting ratelimit statu...

Libraries for Social network integration features with ASP.Net MVC 2.0

I am developing a public website on ASP.Net MVC2.0 and I am looking for open source libraries for Social Network Integration that give me following functionality. User can share a page to their facebook, twitter, linkedin and other accounts Retrieving tweets from an account Facebook "like this" ...

Twitter integration iPhone app?

Hello, I am looking for a simple method to allow the user to share their score using Twitter. Originally I just opened a Twitter share URL in Mobile Safari to make the Tweet, however I can't seem to find a valid Twitter share URL. What would you suggest? Thanks. ...

OAuth Issue for Connecting to Twitter API to make user search (users/search)

I am using Twitter API for retrieving user information for specific name searches. The method I am using is users/search. You can find details of this method here: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-users-search. Right now I am trying to use OAuth in my application as Twitter announced that they will no longer support...

Twitter like url routing in asp.net mvc?

I ve seen in twitter, i can get a user view page by just typing in the url say http://twitter.com/pandiyachendur. How to do the same with asp.net mvc? I dont know how twitter does it? ...

Problem with Twitter oAuth and Tweetsharp

i'm using the following code but getting the error: Twitter returned an API error but TweetSharp was unable to parse it. my code is: var request = GetRequestToken(); //-- TwitterService service = new TwitterService(); OAuthToken unauthorizedToken = service.GetRequestToken(_consumerKey, _consumerSecret); string url = se...

Google's username policies vs Facebook, Twitter and others...

I have a question I've been trying to understand for awhile now. Google has terrible username policies for accounts and services. You are unable to change your username, recover a deleted account or link usernames to various accounts. It's not possible to do anything. These issues have comes up numerous times with accounts that I manage ...

Is there a python twitter search library that handle results the right way?

All the libraries I've tested search in twitter, let you specify the rpp (results per page) parameter but only gives you ONE page results. It'd be cool a Python lib that provide a generator and each time gen.next() is called, a new search result is yielded. If the page is over, jump to the next page alone. ...

What's a good set of heuristics for threading tweets?

Everyone knows, if you want to thread emails you use Jamie Zawinski's alogirhtm. But it's a new century, and there's a new messaging service. What's the best algorithm for threading status updates posted on twitter? Things I'd definitely like it to cope with: Understanding in_reply_to_status_id Understanding in_reply_to_user_id, and ...

401 error with Ruby OAuth for Twitter

xI've been working for days to get Twitter to authenticate with Ruby, but I'm not having any luck. My first attempt was something like this: class TwitterController < ApplicationController def index @callback_url = "http://dev.twipler.com:3000/twitter/auth" @auth= TwitterOAuth::Client.new( :consumer_key => "xxx", :consumer_s...