api-craft nyc - overview of the twitter apis with demos

Jon Bulava@jbulavaEditor-in-chief, Developer Relations @Twitter. Master of web technology. Top it off with some photography and video production.

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- Why is Twitter important? - API overview - Organization - Rate limits - Versioning - Demos - Open discussion

AGENDA

- Connect your users with their interests - Distribution on a global scale - Open and real-time

WHY IS TWITTER IMPORTANT?

Streaming APIsREST APIs

API OVERVIEW

Ingest what’s happening right now

Perform actions

Access what happened

Public API Media API

Collections API TON API

API ORGANIZATION

Streaming APIsREST APIs

User streamsSite streams

Public streams

API ORGANIZATION

Streaming APIsREST APIs

POST statuses / filter GET statuses / sample GET statuses / firehose

User streams

Site streams

Public streams

GET site

GET user

Public APIGET statuses/user_timeline GET statuses/show/:id POST statuses/update GET search/tweets GET followers/list GET trends/place

Media APIPOST media/upload POST media/upload (INIT) POST media/upload (APPEND) POST media/upload (FINALIZE) POST media/metadata/create GET media/upload (STATUS)

API RATE LIMITS

Streaming APIsREST APIs

Reasons for limiting: • Backoff strategy not

implemented • Frequent breaks and

reconnecting • Too many connections

Limit notices { "limit":{ "track":1234 }}

15 minute windows

Most limits are either: • 15 calls / 15 minutes • 180 calls / 15 minutes

Streaming APIsREST APIs Ads APIs

API VERSIONING

Ads APIs

API VERSIONING

• Frequent updates means aggressive versioning • MAJOR and MINOR numbers used (e.g. 2.3) • Backward incompatible increases MAJOR • Backward compatible increases MINOR • Only need to specify MAJOR number in call

Example: https://ads-api.twitter.com/1/accounts/abc1/tailored_audiences

DEMO

Documentation dev.twitter.com

Streaming API t.co/streaming

REST API t.co/rest

DEVELOPER RESOURCES

Create App t.co/apps

Open Source Libs t.co/libs

Code Examples t.co/code

TwitterCommunity.com

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