August 19 2008
Recently, I received a request to support the Twitter Search API within Flotzam, which I have done! The Twitter Search API returns some pretty entertaing results -- pick a term and see what people are saying about it at that instant.
It was pretty trivial to add the Twitter Search queries as a provider to Flotzam, although it took a little longer as the Twitter Search API only supports ATOM and JSON, but doesn't support the XML schema used by the other Twitter API, which is what I had been using. But, with a little data massaging and transformation, I was able to get it working pretty easily. Because I already am parsing the YouTube data via ATOM, I went ahead and used the gdata .NET library for parsing the Twitter ATOM feeds, as such:
string[] terms = Settings.Default.TWITTER_SEARCH_TERMS.Split(new Char[] { ','});
foreach (string term in terms)
{
Service service = new Service("TwitterSearchService");
FeedQuery query = new FeedQuery(string.Format("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q={0}",term));
AtomFeed feed = service.Query(query);
foreach (AtomEntry entry in feed.Entries)
{ ... }
}
The latest Flotzam source code has all of code if your are interested...
