Twitter API入门指南：轻松构建应用

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"Twitter API：构建与运行] 是一本由 Kevin Makice 编著的专业书籍，主要探讨了如何利用 Twitter 的应用程序接口（API）进行开发。这本书面向初学者，提供了易于理解的指南，让读者能够在短时间内掌握 Twitter API 的基础并开展实际项目。书中包含了丰富的示例代码和实践经验，帮助读者迅速提升到高级应用水平。受到了行业内多位知名开发者的好评，他们认为这本书是入门 Twitter API 开发的理想资源，能引领读者快速掌握 API 的核心知识和技巧。" 在《Twitter API：构建与运行》一书中，作者 Kevin Makice 深入浅出地介绍了如何利用 Twitter API 创建和运行各种应用程序。Twitter API 是 Twitter 提供给开发者用于访问其平台数据和服务的接口，允许开发者构建社交功能、分析用户行为、甚至创建新的社交媒体应用。首先，书中的内容涵盖了 Twitter API 的基础知识，包括注册开发者账户、获取 API 访问密钥、理解和使用 REST API 以及实时流式 API。这些基础知识对于任何想要与 Twitter 平台互动的开发者来说都是必不可少的。其次，书中的实例项目和实战指导让读者能够快速上手实践。通过构建实际的 Twitter 应用，如自动发布推文、抓取用户数据、分析趋势等，读者可以深入理解 API 的工作原理，并学习如何处理常见的问题和挑战，如率限制和数据安全。此外，书里还涉及了 API 设计原则、最佳实践以及如何调试和优化 API 请求。对于想要开发高效、稳定且用户体验良好的 Twitter 应用的开发者，这些内容具有极高的价值。书中的案例研究和专家见解为读者提供了宝贵的行业洞察。作者分享了成功应用背后的设计思路，以及来自 Twitter API 领域专家的经验教训，有助于读者避免常见陷阱，提升应用的质量和创新性。最后，书中还探讨了与 Twitter 相关的热门话题，如 OAuth 身份验证、实时流处理、数据挖掘和分析，以及如何利用第三方库和工具来简化开发流程。这些话题使读者能够紧跟 Twitter 技术的发展趋势，为未来的项目做好准备。《Twitter API：构建与运行》是一本全面而实用的教程，无论你是初次接触 Twitter API 的新手，还是寻求深化理解的有经验开发者，都能从中受益匪浅，实现从入门到精通的飞跃。

As Twitter lowers barriers to publication through its simplicity, so this book will pro-

vide easy access to the skills and resources you’ll need to build web applications for its

API.

Who This Book Is For

The cultivation of open API development represents another level of evolution in In-

ternet participation. We aren’t just reading and writing content; we’re also cocreating

the interactions surrounding that content. Twitter, in particular, has a low barrier for

both. The most important property of the Twitter API is not found in the nuances of

its syntax, but rather in the imaginative and prolific cocreation it inspires.

This groundbreaking book is for Twitter fans who want to do more than just answer

the question, “What are you doing?” In this first book about working with the Twitter

API, new and casual programmers are provided with explanations of how each part of

the API functions and examples of how those parts can be assembled into web appli-

cations. We’ll also look closely at the culture of Twitter and how it has inspired pro-

grammers to build their own tools and games.

A prerequisite for this book is a basic understanding of how applications are built and

hosted on the Web. However, you don’t need to be a professional coder to launch a

Twitter web application successfully. The XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL code nec-

essary to the construction of the example applications will be provided and explained,

as will some suggested criteria for securing a website. You should be able to pick up

this book, follow the sample code, and have at your disposal a working application to

use and modify.

The sample code can be downloaded from this book’s website (http://

www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596154615/). It is open and available for

anyone to use.

Among the wide range of readers of this book will be IT professionals in small organ-

izations and Twitter members looking for a programming project. In the former sce-

nario, an IT professional may be looking at Twitter as a potential platform to integrate

existing services or products provided by his employer. He can use this book to survey

some web tools that might serve as a foundation for a larger web application. In this

context, it becomes a project companion with additional long-term value as a reference

and directory of sample applications.

In the latter scenario, an active member of the Twitter community may have grown

tired of waiting for someone else to provide missing functionality and be thinking about

adding it herself. She might read this book first to see what is out there, in case someone

has already built the desired tool, and then try to code the web application herself. She

may not consider herself a programmer, but she can build off of the sample code and

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learn details by referencing the chapters on PHP and MySQL functions, selecting the

sample application closest to what she has in mind and then making changes to add

the desired behavior.

Twitter is a hot topic, but not much has been written about it yet. Therefore, the in-

formation this book contains on the history of the Twitter culture will also make it

attractive to nonprogrammers who want to understand the phenomenon, such as de-

cision makers for company development teams or active Internet users new to Twitter.

How This Book Is Organized

This book introduces the Twitter API in the context of a greater community culture,

offering a suite of sample applications to help illustrate some key programming con-

cepts. Here’s a synopsis of what you’ll find:

Chapter 1, Hello Twitter

Gives you a comprehensive overview of the Twitter culture, including the history

of microblogging, the Fail Whale, the company business model, the API developer

community, and creative uses of Twitter.

Chapter 2, Twitter Applications

Reviews more than two dozen existing third-party Twitter web applications you

can use as inspiration for your own creations. The applications are grouped into

seven tools categories—Publishing, Information Stream, Appropriation, Search,

Aggregation, Statistics, and Follow Network tools—and each app is profiled with

a screenshot and a description of what it does.

Chapter 3, Web Programming Basics

Provides a comprehensive starter kit for XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. This

chapter is meant to be a primer for new programmers and a convenient reference

for more experienced programmers. It also offers some advice on what to look for

when searching for a web host to care for your new application.

Chapter 4, Meet the Twitter API

Gives the details on how to make requests of the Twitter API. Included in the

general explanation are format differences, HTTP methods and error codes, au-

thentication, and rate limits. This chapter contains a directory of all of the param-

eters used by the API and a description of each of the 40 methods, grouped into

seven categories: Publishing, Information Stream, Follow Network, Communica-

tion, Member Account, API Administration, and Search. It also includes a discus-

sion about security issues involving Basic Auth and a brief description of how to

use cURL to test the API.

Chapter 5, Meet the Output

Takes a look at what comes out of the API as a response from Twitter. The various

types of XML objects you will encounter—user, status, message, search, ID,

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Acknowledgments

It has always been a dream to write a book. While for a long time I thought it would

be about time travel or dragons, I’m delighted that my dream was fulfilled under the

banner of O’Reilly Media. For that, I have a number of people to thank.

This book is dedicated to my family—Amy (@amakice), Carter (@cmakice), Archie,

and the TBD baby we were creating during the nine months it took to write this tome—

who went out of their way to give me time and space to type, type, type. By now, with

me five years into an older-student Ph.D., they are used to helping me get my 3–5 hours

of sleep each night, while keeping me fed and entertained. However, writing a book on

top of graduate school is like adding a couple more dissertations to the workload. It

takes a village to write a tech book. As they supported me, my family received support

from Amy’s and my parents—Susan Clendening (@twobigdogs); Roger (@rjisb) and

Jean Isbister; Gary and Carol Clendening; Joy and Pete Kottra—and our friends. I am

particularly grateful for the supplemental financial support from that group and from

my long-time friend, Tim Roessler, who can now take this dedication as a direct request

to sign up for Twitter.

From the O’Reilly camp, Laurel Ruma (@laurelatoreilly) ran point on this project.

Despite my being intimidated by both the brand and the endeavor, she held my virtual

hand throughout the process and gently kept me on task. That this book arrived on

bookshelves near you is a credit to her stewardship that made this project such a won-

derful experience for me. I wouldn’t have met her at all if it weren’t for Jeffrey Bardzell

(@jeffreybardzell), my professor and friend, who referred me to his agent Carole Jelen

McClendon at Waterside Productions. Carole, now my agent, helped me pitch an idea

for a Twitter book to John Osborn (@johnatlarge) and Laurel. Nine months later I was

holding my first published book. From top to bottom, the O’Reilly Media organization

was amazing. Rachel Head, Sarah Schneider, Marlowe Shaeffer, and Rachel Monaghan

were also key to completing this project, and I thank them all for their professionalism

and patience.

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